Nothing Much Life with Mother Bubbe Mr Charm eBook Miriam Sawyer
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Nothing Much Life with Mother Bubbe Mr Charm eBook Miriam Sawyer
Meet the family--the gorgeous aunts with their big hats and elan even into their nineties, the go-to cousin who flies in to organize a family funeral down to the pallbearers, the lawyer/mother whose clients cleaned her house or repaired the washing machine instead of paying fees. This memoir of growing up Jewish in Columbus, Ohio, is sure to amuse and touch its readers.Sometimes droll, sometimes bemused, the narrator spins her tales about quirky relatives. My favorite is her mother, who graduated from law school before she was old enough to practice and in the days when few women were attorneys. She collected a humble clientele, black and white, who called at inconvenient times and admired her to the extent of naming their children after her.
The young Miriam wasn't necessarily impressed. Her mother might speak perfect English in the courtroom, but she chatted in Yiddish while shopping with Bubbe at an upscale dress shop. Miriam, then fifteen, could only wish the two women would speak in French if they had to critique a customer's appearance.
There are stories, too, of the politics of running a library (who knew?) and life with Mr. Charm on the East Coast. All and all, "Nothing Much" offers the reader a lot to enjoy.
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Nothing Much Life with Mother Bubbe Mr Charm eBook Miriam Sawyer Reviews
This is a delightful and witty book about generations of quirky characters in the author's family. The "laugh out loud" moments are frequent as the writer reaches back to affectionately bring forth her relatives and morph them into people we seem to have encountered in our own families. Her wry observations about human behavior leave you wishing you could hang out with her and people watch through her lens.
Miriam's humor has always been gentle but still revealing and though she doesn't use a lot of politics on her blog, Miriam's Ideas, she can be devastating with it when she does, as in this excerpt from the book
"I wasn't always a Republican. I began life as a Democrat. This was particularly useful in Albany, NY, where Republicans did not have potholes in their streets fixed or the snow removed (There was a lot of snow)..."
The book, like the blog from which some of it is drawn, really isn't very political. Mostly she writes about her former life as a librarian (a surprisingly amusing occupation, if you didn't know that already) and her extended family. Her style makes it all seem very cozy, even when it isn't, like a friend talking to you off-the-cuff. Some of it is laugh-out-loud funny. Which is true of the blog as well.
You need this book. You need her blog. The former is just $1.99, big spender. The latter, you lucky dog, is free.
Meet the family--the gorgeous aunts with their big hats and elan even into their nineties, the go-to cousin who flies in to organize a family funeral down to the pallbearers, the lawyer/mother whose clients cleaned her house or repaired the washing machine instead of paying fees. This memoir of growing up Jewish in Columbus, Ohio, is sure to amuse and touch its readers.
Sometimes droll, sometimes bemused, the narrator spins her tales about quirky relatives. My favorite is her mother, who graduated from law school before she was old enough to practice and in the days when few women were attorneys. She collected a humble clientele, black and white, who called at inconvenient times and admired her to the extent of naming their children after her.
The young Miriam wasn't necessarily impressed. Her mother might speak perfect English in the courtroom, but she chatted in Yiddish while shopping with Bubbe at an upscale dress shop. Miriam, then fifteen, could only wish the two women would speak in French if they had to critique a customer's appearance.
There are stories, too, of the politics of running a library (who knew?) and life with Mr. Charm on the East Coast. All and all, "Nothing Much" offers the reader a lot to enjoy.
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