Why Moms Are Weird

Laughed out loud with hysteria.

Benny ("Boobs") Bernstein returns home from California to take car of her recently widowed mom who has gotten into a car accident and is housebound and unemployed. She has not been lucky in love, and has lost quite a bit of weight and is surprised she gets so much attention from men.

Love the dialogue and the characters. Wished it was longer.

Though I'm a blog reader from way back (i.e. the on-line journal era) and was aware of Pamie's stellar presence back in the day, I didn't get on-board reading her site until she made her journaling come back. And though I've enjoyed the site, I've never become an avid reader.
I read Why Girls Are Weird when it was firs published, and thought it was all right but not much more than that.
So this was a pleasant surprise. I really enjoyed this novel, especially the tone of being personally spoken to by an self-admitedly odd narrator.
As an aside, I wonder exactly how much of this book was autobiographical. Perhaps if I was in fact a more dedicated reader of Pamie's site from the start, I would have a better idea. I do know that Pamie's show more father, like her heroine's, passed away from cancer.
And I suspect that Benny's outlook on romantic relationships being born in the confines of her car are also Pamie's (though I do not know as much; it just rang true). And Pamie did lose weight, too, but I don't know whether she'd carried extra weight from childhood and whether that had been a source of tension with her parents. Did Pamie just reveal even more of herself in this novel than she has on her site? I simply don't know. In any case, her heroine, Bennie (aka Boobs) rang true and that goes a long way in a novel. show less

I think this is my favorite of Pamela Ribon's three books. Its very funny, read out loud to yourself funny.

I was very curious about this book as I really loved the other one I had read by Pamela Ribon, 'Why Girls are Weird'.
This book is less funny. It's a good story, good writing, keeps us interested but it just doesn't have the "it" the other book had. Or maybe I just had too high expectations. Anyway, a good book.

This was a good read. kind of knew what to expect at the end. It cracked me up. Enjoyed the main character.

A fun read. I might even liked it better than the first book. It is very different. Read it quickly and had some LOL moments.
finished last night.

A few good laugh out loud moments.