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This Saturday marks my 1 year Blog Birthday and I feel like Red Headed Book Child is just learning how to walk, still enjoying the bottle and
apprehensive about solid foods.
In other words, I've come along way since the sleepy, burpy newborn that I once was.
I still don't really know what I am doing but I certainly feel more relaxed about the world of blogging. Reading back at my early posts, I definitely did not edit myself. I sound much like a rambling, drunk stand up comedian who thinks she knows a lot about books.
Now I'm slightly more refined, perhaps a tad more emotional and jazz handy, less intense but still passionate and enthusiastic about books.
Perfect that I should happen to have I know I am but what are you? by Samantha Bee to give away in honor of my blog birthday. This book shares my taste in sass, intensity, wit, and dry sense of humor (and much of my dirty crass side too!)
Here is the description from the publisher's website:
Description
Candid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from the much-loved Samantha Bee, the Most Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart .
Critics have called her "sweet, adorable, and vicious." But there is so much more to be said about Samantha Bee. For one, she's Canadian. Whatever that means. And now, she opens up for the very first time about her checkered Canadian past. With charming candor, she admits to her Lennie from Of Mice and Men–style love of baby animals, her teenage crime spree as one-half of a car-thieving couple (Bonnie and Clyde in Bermuda shorts and braces), and the fact that strangers seem compelled to show her their genitals. She also details her intriguing career history, which includes stints working in a frame store, at a penis clinic, and as a Japanese anime character in a touring children's show.
Samantha delves into all these topics and many more in this thoroughly hilarious, unabashedly frank collection of personal essays. Whether detailing the creepiness that ensues when strangers assume that your mom is your lesbian lover, or recalling her girlhood crush on Jesus (who looked like Kris Kristofferson and sang like Kenny Loggins), Samantha turns the spotlight on her own imperfect yet highly entertaining life as relentlessly as she skewers hapless interview subjects on The Daily Show. She shares her unique point of view on a variety of subjects as wide ranging as her deep affinity for old people, to her hatred of hot ham. It's all here, in irresistible prose that will leave you in stitches and eager for more.
Critics have called her "sweet, adorable, and vicious." But there is so much more to be said about Samantha Bee. For one, she's Canadian. Whatever that means. And now, she opens up for the very first time about her checkered Canadian past. With charming candor, she admits to her Lennie from Of Mice and Men–style love of baby animals, her teenage crime spree as one-half of a car-thieving couple (Bonnie and Clyde in Bermuda shorts and braces), and the fact that strangers seem compelled to show her their genitals. She also details her intriguing career history, which includes stints working in a frame store, at a penis clinic, and as a Japanese anime character in a touring children's show.
Samantha delves into all these topics and many more in this thoroughly hilarious, unabashedly frank collection of personal essays. Whether detailing the creepiness that ensues when strangers assume that your mom is your lesbian lover, or recalling her girlhood crush on Jesus (who looked like Kris Kristofferson and sang like Kenny Loggins), Samantha turns the spotlight on her own imperfect yet highly entertaining life as relentlessly as she skewers hapless interview subjects on The Daily Show. She shares her unique point of view on a variety of subjects as wide ranging as her deep affinity for old people, to her hatred of hot ham. It's all here, in irresistible prose that will leave you in stitches and eager for more.
Thank you all for being a part of my year long ride. I didn't know what to expect and I am so happy that there are wonderful people out there like you all who read and listen to what I have to say. Your comments and presence are greatly appreciated.
My blog may change like the seasons but I hope you all will continue to
grow along with me.
Thank you to Kristin at Simon and Schuster for offering this book to giveaway.
GIVEAWAY RULES:
* It would be lovely if you would be a follower.
* It would help my pocket book if you lived in the United States.
* It would benefit my organization skills if you would leave an email address.
* It would feed my ego if you would leave a comment about what you like best about Red Headed Book Child!
GIVEAWAY GOES UNTIL AUGUST 1!
Happy Reading and as always, thanks for stopping by!
red headed book child
