August 2022 Review of American Housewives
American Housewife
Written by Helen Ellis
About from Goodreads.com
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.
Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster, American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood.
Review
After reading the last book I read, this book was extremely needed. It was absolutely hilarious.
I loved each and every housewife and each one had a different personality. Which is always a welcomed blessing especially with a few of the books I’ve read this month. I read some books with what felt like the characters all had the same personality or I completely hated their character(s).
I enjoyed everything so much in this book that if I was allowed to I’d put the entire book in the ‘quotes I love’ section but, alas I cannot.It was even hard to stop myself from not putting more than 3 quotes in it.
The short stories in this book are super entertaining as well, my favorite was ‘Southern Lady Code ‘.
The only thing is I don’t know if I’ll ever read it again, which is why I am giving it 4 stars but, If you, dear Reader get the chance to read this book, take it. It is a short read of only 208 pages, it took me two hours to read it.
Enjoyed
I was laughing a lot
If I could put this entire book into ‘Quotes I love” I would
Disliked
Quotes I love
I iron a tablecloth and think about eating lint from the dryer, but then think better of that because I am sane
I drown my sorrows with Chanel No. 5.
Mrs. Preston had character and the only thing with less character than Chardonnay is wainscoting
4 /5 ⭐️
Info
Trigger warning- NA
Spice level 0/ 5 🌶
Numbers of pages- 208
Publish date- January 2016
Awards-NA
Genres- Short stories, Humor
Im so going to read this one :)
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