Humor and Heart from Carol E Wyer

05/09/2012

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Surfing In Stilettos
Author: Carol E Wyer
ISBN: 978-0-9569511-8-2
Reviewer: Dannye Williamsen

The title of Carol E. Wyer’s book Surfing In Stilettos brought strange visions into my head. Once I started reading, I realized that it was internet surfing. I admit it was a letdown at first because I was looking forward to seeing how she could pull off some of those strange visions I’d had! It was only a short-term depression, however, because Wyer’s writing style and her stimulating characters took me on a thoroughly enjoyable ride!

Amanda Wilson, Wyer’s down-to-earth main character, drew me in immediately as she rebelled against the mundane and frustrating moments of her life by trying to reignite passion in her life. She writes a blog titled Fortifying Your Fifties while vacationing in France. Her vacation, which turns out to be longer than she anticipated, and her blog open her up to all sorts of new adventures. Along with her newfound and her past friends, you will want to follow Amanda through her ups and downs, her foibles, her temptations, and her joy of discovery.

Surfing In Stilettos is the sequel to Mini Skirts & Laughter Lines. Carol E. Wyer has a refreshing sense of humor. Having been given the title by her own blog followers of BOTUK, Bombeck of the UK, she showers you with comedy and heart, all wrapped up in British flavor and French eccentricities. Don’t miss this book!

Reviewed by Dannye Williamsen, Author of Second Chances and The Threads That Bind

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The Wacky World of Womanhood Offers A Humorous Take On Everything!

03/16/2012

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The Wacky World of Womanhood:  Essays on Girlhood, Dating, Motherhood, and the Loss of Matching Underwear  
ISBN:  978-0595292905
Author: Vicky DeCoster
Reviewer: Dannye Williamsen

In The Wacky World of Womanhood, Vicky DeCoster takes the most mundane moments of our lives as well as the most horrifying and turns them into belly-laughs! Men may not be able to personally relate to some of the experiences, but despite the title, I guarantee they will appreciate the humor! 

Girlhood: While I was laughing aloud reading through DeCoster’s essays on her childhood, I was valiantly trying to poke all my painful childhood memories back into the neat little cubbyholes I fashioned for them so long ago. Her descriptions were so authentic, however, that it was a bittersweet experience with feelings of sadness being mitigated by her quirky, comical view of life.    

Dating:  One of my favorite lines in Bad Break-up Lines is this: “Perhaps your guy told you ‘our paths, rather than merging and converging, merged and crossed.’ That’s the line of a future CEO, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.”

Marriage: DeCoster’s rendition of what a romance novel would be like if it depicted the real world is unfortunately all too real.

“I can’t stop loving you,” she whispered to her husband as he shoveled tuna and noodles into his mouth. He reached out and grabbed the salt. “What did you say?” he mumbled. “You have a noodle stuck in your ear,” she said, as her breasts heaved.”

Parenthood: DeCoster’s list of the “Top 20 Signs That You’ve Become a Parent” puts David Letterman to shame!  One of my favorites is #18 -  “When arguing with your spouse, you learn to spell all the swear words and still make them effective.”

Mid-life: In mid-life there is nothing sacred to DeCoster. She doesn’t miss a thing—from those dimples that appear, but not on your face, to annual visits to the gynecologist to breast implants to those pesky memory lapses.

DeCoster has a quirky, irreverent style that reminds me of Joan Rivers. The great thing about this writer is she uses humor to crawl stealthily past the fronts we put up for all to see and then exposes us to ourselves. 

In The Wacky World of Womanhood, Vicky DeCoster’s wit takes us from girlhood to mid-life. I can hardly wait to hear what she has to say about the Golden Years!

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