Kindle Edition Amazon Dorothy Rosby Category:  Humor Publisher: Unhinged Press ISBN-10:  0692314377 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 224 Copyright: November 7, 2014 ISBN-13: 9780692314371 Price: $3.99 (eBook) The book for people who read self-improvement books and never get any better. Also for the people who sincerely wish they would. A humorous look at the kind of issues one tries to fix by reading self-help books—anxiety, bad habits, poor communications, poor fitness, lack of prosperity, struggling relationships—and how the author and maybe you are failing to fix them. Excerpt (Essay from Chapter 4 Wisdom for Dummies) Dear Clever Advice Columnist People often ask me for advice. Well, sometimes people ask me for advice. Oh heck. Nobody ever asks me for advice. But I wish they would, because I have wanted to be an advice columnist my whole life. So today, I will offer advice as though I were a real advice columnist, using real questions that real people would have asked me if they had thought of them. Dear Clever Advice Columnist, My neighbors seemed nice enough when they moved in a few years ago, so when they asked to borrow our lawn mower, we agreed. Since then, they borrow it once a week all summer. They even get it out of our garage without asking. From a cup of sugar the week they moved in, they've begun to borrow not just one egg, but a dozen, and not just my mixer, but my oven. Last week they brought a list when they came over. They left my house with two pounds of hamburger, buns, ketchup, pickles and potato chips. And they didn't even invite us to the cookout. I believe in being neighborly, but they're eating me out of house and home. What can I do? Signed, Not a grocery store Dear Not a Grocery Store, Wow! Your neighbors really mow once a week? Dear Wise and Powerful Advice Columnist, My fiancé and I are deeply in love but we are from vastly different backgrounds. Everyone says our marriage is doomed. What do you think? Signed, Finished Before We Start Dear Finished, Nobody can tell who you should or shouldn't marry--except me. I can tell you. And I say there are three ingredients essential to a long marriage: commitment, communication, and agreement on where the thermostat should be set. If you and your fiancé have all of these, tie the knot. And don't invite any naysayers to your wedding--unless you think you can get a really good gift out of them. Dear Keeper of all Wisdom, My twenty-fifth high school reunion is coming up this summer. I want to go, but I've gained forty pounds. My wife left me for the class nerd who is now the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I was recently fired from my job. To add insult to injury, I was voted Most Likely to Succeed. How should I handle the reunion? Sincerely, Anonymous Dear Anonymous, Wow! I'd sign Anonymous if I were you, too. I'm JOKING! Seriously, I don't believe anyone should attend a class reunion until they have something to show for themselves.That's why I haven't attended one in years. But if you insist on going, do what countless reunion attendees before you have done. LIE! You’re gaining weight because of your thyroid condition. You weren’t fired; you quit. And your wife didn’t leave you; you left her. Don’t worry. It’s not likely she’ll be there to call you on it, not with her new man being such a busy VIP. Oh Wise One, My dear friend of twenty-five years has recently developed serious financial problems and has asked me for loans on several occasions. So far, I've avoided the situation by making excuses, but I feel like a heel. I'm no Bill Gates, but I am doing pretty well. And this is a good friend we're talking about. Should I loan him the money? Signed, Not Bill Gates Dear Not Bill, Please don't take this wrong, but are you NUTS? Sure, go ahead and loan him the money—if you never want to see it again. Then don't come crying to me. If you're just feeling guilty about not sharing your wealth, consider giving some cash to a favorite charity—or to me. I’m not finding the advice business all that lucrative.

Comedic Collection Will Win Your Affection
Dorothy Rosby's writing is kind and funny, but not kind of funny -- it's hilarious! Her collection "I Used to Think I Was Not That Bad and Then I Got to Know Me Better" proves that humorists don't have to be constantly cutting to be comedic. Sure, Ms. Rosby can be self-deprecating (her book title of course indicates that). And she can make fun of annoying behavior with the best of them, but usually in a genial way. Ms. Rosby also has the impressive skill of giving her readers a great punchline and then often tagging on another punchline or two -- all just as good as the first one. The book contains many terrific passages; here's just one: "To people who put...empty milk jugs back in the refrigerator. WHY? Do you think we keep a cow in there?" LOL!

HOLY GOD THIS IS FUNNY
Oh, dear GOD this woman is funny. In very readable brief chapters, Ms. Rosby finds the inner workings of the female approach to life in a way that had me - literally - laughing out loud. In fact, I read parts of the book to my grown daughter, and I was laughing so much I could barely get through a sentence. She loved it, too. Funny, funny stuff.

A fun and funny read!
Dorothy Rosby is witty and entertaining. I enjoyed her book and can SO relate. When see through her eyes, I'm not that bad either.