Confessions Of A Failed Grown Up

Author : Stephanie Calman
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330446396
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Failed Grown-up written by Stephanie Calman and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Confessions of a Bad Mother and Queen of Bad Motherhood, Stephanie Calman comes a new, inspiring, empowering, amusing, startling and occasionally touching anti-manual.In Confessions of a Bad Mother, Stephanie described how she brought up her children 'wrong'. Now she unlocks her singular inability (but one which secretly we all share) to grow up: forty-five last birthday but she doesn't feel any older, but of course she does - as in deafer, stiffer, and less able to read the dosage instructions on a bottle of Calpol. But the supposedly normal challenges of human existence feel frequently as though they are beyond her. Life is constantly confusing, frustrating and, at times, overwhelming. At forty-five - but only on paper - she's still a child in a suit, bluffing her way with one eye looking over her shoulder, expecting any minute to be found out and taken back to the nursery. Of course, that isn't such a bad place to be. Sometimes she even wants to go back there, but is cruelly aware that she no longer fits the chairs. Also featuring Things to Cook in Stilettos When You're Drunk, Why I am a Time Lord, A Hundred Ways to Wreck an Evening, Ten Things They Don't Tell You in Biology and The Grown-Ups' phrase book, Stephanie Calman's candid, touching and hysterically funny new book gives hope to bad mothers and failed grown-ups everywhere: read it and know that you are not alone.

Author : Florence King
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466816260
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady written by Florence King and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1990-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence reminds us, "no matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street."

Author : Terry Wilson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781479279401
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Failed Saint written by Terry Wilson and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Failed Saint can be both hilariously funny and poignantly tender hearted. From a Catholic girlhood to adventures in the New Age, Buddhism, and beyond, Wilson turns a writerly eye to investigate what makes us human. Humor leads to wisdom as Wilson discovers what makes us tick--and what tickles our funny bones. Reading Terry Wilson's work reminds us that food, nature, religion, friends and family are here to enliven us. - Miriam Sagan, author of "GOSSIP" and "Searching for a Mustard Seed."

Author : Florence King
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312143370
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Florence King Reader written by Florence King and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GIFT LOCAL 11-15-2002 $13.95.

Author : Florence King
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466816252
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Ladies & Gentlemen written by Florence King and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King's celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back in print, just in time for the Clinton era. The Failed Souther Lady's classic primer on Dixie manners captures such storied types as the Southern Woman (frigid, passionate, sweet, bitchy, and scatterbrained--all at the same time), the Self-Rejuvenating Virgin, and the Good Ole Boy in all his coats and stripes. (The Clinton questions--is he a G.O.B. or isn't he?--Miss king covers in her hilarious new Afterword.) No one has ever made more sharp, scathing, affectionate, real sense out of the land of the endless Civil War than Florence King in these razor-edged pages.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501157868
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of an Oxygen Thief written by Anonymous and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

Author : Alexandra Potter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 103503137X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Forty-Something written by Alexandra Potter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major TV series. Read the hilarious rom-com that inspired the hit sitcom Not Dead Yet starring Gina Rogriguez. As recommended on Davina McCall's Making the Cut podcast, and perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton, Ruth Jones and Marian Keyes. 'The new Bridget Jones' – Celia Walden, Telegraph 'Funny but layered . . . this is a perfect and inspiring new year read' – Red A novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here, and why life isn't quite how she imagined it was going to be. And who is desperately trying to figure it all out when everyone around them is making gluten-free brownies. Meet Nell. Her life is a mess. In a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a disaster. But when she starts a secret podcast and forms an unlikely friendship with Cricket, an eighty-something widow, things begin to change. Because Nell is determined. This time next year things will be very different. But first, she has a confession . . . Confessions of a Forty-Something by Alexandra Potter will make you laugh, and it might even make you cry. Above all, it will remind you that you're not on your own – we're all in this together. 'Brilliant! Laughing out loud' – Emma Gannon, podcaster (Ctrl Alt Delete) and author of Olive 'Say hello to a book that will have you laughing with every page, whether you're 20, 40 or 80' – Heat

Author : Anna Fields
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101186836
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Rebel Debutante written by Anna Fields and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fond, funny Southern-fried memoir about growing up a proper young lady...or not. How does a North Carolina native go from being a tomboy with catfish guts on her overalls to becoming the next Scarlett O'Hara? Turns out, it's not so easy. Too smart, too tall, too fat, too different...Anna Fields was a dud at debbing. From tea parties to teased hair to where to hide mini bottles of liquor inside poufy crinoline ballgowns, Anna reveals all-in a hilarious, behindthe-scenes glimpse into Deb Culture, where for a Southern belle, "the proof is in the pouf." Unless, of course, she rebels...

Author : Colin Feltham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317547438
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Failure written by Colin Feltham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failure, success's ugly sister, is inevitable - cognitively, biologically and morally. We all make mistakes, we all die, and we all get it wrong. A chain of flaws can be traced through all phenomena, natural and human. We see impending and actual failures in individual lives, in marriages, careers, in religion, education, psychotherapy, business, nations, and in entire civilizations. And there are chronic and imperceptible failures in everyday domains that most of the time we barely notice, often until it is too late. Colin Feltham expores what constitutes failure across a number of domains. He takes guidance from the work of such diverse philosophers and thinkers as Diogenes, Epictetus, Augustine, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Cioran and Ricoeur, while also drawing on the insights of artists and writers such as van Gogh, Arthur Miller, Philip Larkin, Samuel Beckett, Charles Bukowski and Philip Roth. Precursors and partial synonyms for failure can be seen in the concepts of hamartia, sin, fallenness, non-being, false consciousness and anthropathology. Philosophy can help us but is itself, in its reliance on language and logic, subject to inherent flaws and failures. It is the very pervasiveness yet common denial of failure which makes it a compelling topic that cries out for honest analysis. We live in a time when the cliche of failed Marxism may be segueing frighteningly (for some) into the failure of 'selfish capitalism', in a time of geopolitical uncertainty and failure to address the dire need for agreement and action on climate change. But many of us are also painfully aware of our own shortcomings, our own weakness of will and lack of authenticity. Trying to identify where the lines may be drawn between individual responsibility, social policy, and historical and biological dark forces is a key challenge in this fascinating book.

Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979726
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.