In gratitude, I'm sharing the latest review in entirety (5 Stars), posted on Amazon for my nonfiction memoir collection:
Smart, clever, snide, and nostalgic, Pasco writes with élan on a vast array of topics dear to the hearts of Baby Boomers. Raleigh coupons, candy cigarettes, Bazooka Joe, Nancy Drew, mohair, Carnaby street, the celery green walls of primary school academia; it's all here, just as it was when we boomers were in bloom.
In addition to the title’s multiple entendre, these memoirs are filled with snarky allusion and Wildean epigrams; sometimes in the same sentence. "Before you get the notion I’m going to drawl about roping cattle or saddling up at the Flat Broke Ranch, I’m not steering you there by a longhorn shot.” (22)
Pasco’s snapshots of yesteryear, a collection of pieces she originally penned for The Sixties Official Site, are more than mere nostalgia; they are tiny well-researched histories which include background on the social, political, and cultural mores of the time, spiced with odd details such as the fact that Green Stamps printed three times more stamps than the U.S. Post Office throughout the 60s.
Nicely crisp metaphors abound. "Eyes stung, hair and clothes reeked, curdles of smoke and carbon incensed the air like a priest performing benediction at high mass." (106) And; any and all afunctional alliterates will delight in sinewy sentences such as: "Crushed by the cresting catastrophic contaminated canned cranberry cancer caper, I crumpled and cried..." (132)
A vastly entertaining and informative treat, not just for people of a certain age, but for everyone living or breathing who enjoys quality writing and razor-sharp wit.
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