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You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool Paperback - 2011

by Celia Rivenbark

From the bestselling, award-winning author of "You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning" comes another collection of hilarious observations that are sure to resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere.


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From the bestselling, award-winning author of You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning, comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere In her newest wickedly irreverent humor collection, Celia Rivenbark cracks up while getting her downward facing dog on, pines for a world in which every mom gets to behave like Betty Draper and wonders why everybody's so excited about the Science Fair when there aren't even any rides. In it you'll find essays on such topics as:
- Menopause Spurs Thoughts of Death and Turkey
- I Dreamed a Dream That My Lashes Were Long
- Twitter Woes: I've Got Plenty of Characters, Just No Character
- Movie To-Do List: Cook Like Julia, Adopt Really Big Kid
- Charlie Bit Your Finger? Good!
- And other thoughts on the virus that is YouTube
- And much more! And much more! For any woman who longs for the good old days when Jane Fonda in legwarmers was the only one who saw you exercise, YOU DON'T SWEAT MUCH FOR A FAT GIRL is comfort food in book form.

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  • Title You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
  • Author Celia Rivenbark
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL
  • Date 2011-08-16
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780312614201 / 0312614209
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.21 x 5.55 x 0.68 in (20.85 x 14.10 x 1.73 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects American wit and humor
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011019823
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.6

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/20/2011, Page 0

About the author

Celia Rivenbark is the author of the award-winning bestsellers Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank; Bless Your Heart, Tramp; Belle Weather; and You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier won a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. Born and raised in Duplin County, North Carolina, Rivenbark grew up in a small house with a red barn out back that was populated by a couple of dozen lanky and unvaccinated cats. She started out writing for her hometown paper. She writes a weekly, nationally syndicated humor column for the Myrtle Beach Sun News. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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