Elizabeth Beckwith: Readers Advisory Book/Review Swap

Sometimes funny people write books that are meant to be funny but aren’t.  Elizabeth Beckwith is as funny on the page as she is on the stage.  Check out this great review in Booklist. Then check out the book itself.  Free copies to 25 lucky people who promise to send in a review – and tell all their friends about this funny writer.  Just shoot us an email at librarylovefest at harpercollins.com.
-Virginia

Beckwith, Elizabeth. Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation. HarperCollins. Oct. 2009. 256p. ISBN 978-0-06-175957-4. pap. $14.99. HUMOR
Comedian and actress Beckwith here takes a saucy tongue-in-cheek approach to parenting advice, complete with laugh-out-loud funny chapter summaries, discussion questions, and pseudo letters from readers. Via chapters titled à la "How To Scare the Crap Out of Your Child (in a Positive Way)," readers relive much of Beckwith’s youth in her Italian Catholic family and will chortle at many of her experiences. Covering such topics as raising a nerd, Beckwith advises, "Instead of being cranky that your son didn’t make the football team, breathe a sigh of relief that he is now less likely to be involved in an ill-conceived gang-bang." Touché, Beckwith; well done!

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[Cheryl Nessman]

This book was hilarious! Written with superb voice, Elizabeth Beckwith has created a piece that will simultaneously make you cringe and laugh out loud over the all too familiar parenting tactics we have all been subject to, and that we now subject our own children to. This book is so funny and on point that I found it absolutely necessary to share passages (and chapter titles) with total strangers! As for friends & family, well they all got a copy of the book for Christmas! Thanks, Elizabeth, for pointing out how warped we are, and making it seem not only humorous, but preferred. Go team Beckwith!!

[Leah Liebergen]

This sounds like a book that not only embraces, but celebrates my way of parenting! It would be my great pleasure to read and comment on it!

[Nancy Viens]

Sounds like a hilarious look at a serious project--raising a child. Keeping a sense of humor is of primary importance. While my own children are grown and out of the nest, there are always grandchildren! I would love to read the book to see what I might have done better.

[Melissa C]

I would like to read this book and take my first stab at a review! Maybe this will inspire me to start that book blog that I have had brewing in the back of my head for a while even!

[anne]

What a great and unique book. It would be wonderful to have this opportunity. Thanks so much.

[Amy]

As a relatively new parent and library worker and book blogger, this sounds right up my alley!!!

-Amy

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