Library Love Fest

He'll Go Down in History: The Re-Examined Story Of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

If you attended ALTAFF's The Laugh's on Us program at ALA in Chicago, you might remember the hilarious comedienne Elizabeth Beckwith, author of Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation, which we've blogged about here.  She had the entire room in stitches--I remember actually gasping for breath because I was laughing so hard.  So of course, I was super-excited to see her holiday-themed post for The Huffington Post.  It's worth a read, just for the following quote alone:

"'Christmas Town is very political, you have to kiss a lot of ass, and it's very unforgiving toward misfits. It's the dirty little secret that nobody talks about,' Blitzen remarked before sullenly finishing his drink."

 Happy Friday! 

-Kayleigh

Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation

Elizabeth Beckwith's Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation is on sale today! To celebrate, we are re-extending our Readers Advisory Book/Review Swap offer.  Want to read the book and review it? We'll send you a free copy.  Just shoot an email to librarylovefest at harpercollins.com for the book Booklist called "saucy" and "laugh-out-loud."

-Kayleigh 

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!