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Summary: Cozy is good
Review: It's refreshing to read a book that celebrates the little things in life that make things more bearable. Ms. Holland is one of my favorite authors. She never disappoints.
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Summary: Cozy is good
Review: It's refreshing to read a book that celebrates the little things in life that make things more bearable. Ms. Holland is one of my favorite authors. She never disappoints.
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Summary: Justification for all the things we really want to do!
Review: Ms. Holland has provided me with extensive support for all of those guilty pleasures I too often deny myself. She tells me why I should enjoy going to work, playing tourist while on vacation, hanging around the house doing nothing, eating and drinking - an all around reckless life. I leave a copy of this book in my guest room and have awaken to chuckles and guffaws, and visitors with a renewed sense of indulgence. If you ever feel guilty, buy and read this book!
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Summary: One of my all time favorites
Review: Ms. Holland is one of my favorite authors and this is my favorite of her books. This is one to treasure, to reread when life is looking particularly dreary. In "Endangered Pleasures" Ms. Holland looks at many of the things we've given up on the advice of the government, our doctors and other do-gooders. Bacon (yum), naps, calling out sick, cursing, all the things we're not supposed to do or enjoy because they're bad for our health, the economy, the nation. Read this on the bus, you'll get a seat to yourself because other riders will move away from you because you're laughing outloud.
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Summary: One of my all time favorites
Review: Ms. Holland is one of my favorite authors and this is my favorite of her books. This is one to treasure, to reread when life is looking particularly dreary. In "Endangered Pleasures" Ms. Holland looks at many of the things we've given up on the advice of the government, our doctors and other do-gooders. Bacon (yum), naps, calling out sick, cursing, all the things we're not supposed to do or enjoy because they're bad for our health, the economy, the nation. Read this on the bus, you'll get a seat to yourself because other riders will move away from you because you're laughing outloud.
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Summary: hey, whoa, happy to be here, don't get hostile!
Review: Obviously I believe everyone should knuckle down and buy several copies and don't lend them out - make EVERYONE buy several copies. You are, however, welcome to give them away - I'm told this is a great gift book happily welcomed by amiably laid-back friends and lovers and satisfyingly cursed by colleagues and relatives addicted to jogging, broccoli and the gloomy modern delights of self-flagellation, food deprivation and 90-hour work weeks. You need this book. It will renew the self-esteem of those who hate getting up in the morning, love going to bed at night, and long for the days of long summer vacations, ice-cold martinis, chicken gravy and driving without a seatbelt. When you're finished, pass it on to someone who needs it badly.
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Summary: Justifies your bad habits and downfalls...
Review: This book was so good to read--Barbara Holland gives a 1-3 page defense of several habits that are generally looked at in a negative light. She defends barefeet, sleeping in, unemployment, cussing someone out, gambling, etc. It was such a pleasure to read--so many good quotes inside. A nice short read that will put a smile on your face.
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Summary: This Girl Knows How to Have Fun!
Review: This book will make you laugh...at yourself and others who try to make life a series of grim responsibilities. Barbara Holland is such an unabashed pleasure-seeker, I had to keep checking the cover to see that it was really written by a woman! The things she embraces are truly guilty pleasures no self-respecting, typically suffering woman of the '90's would admit to. Thank God for her! As a fellow sybarite, I appluad this book's celebration of all that is deliciously decadent. What's great is reading about guilty pleasures you may not have even thought of. The overriding theme of the book is not how great martinis, bacon or naps are in and of themselves, but how anything that you enjoy that way can really lift your spirits...and if it's forbidden, all the better! In this overwrought era of taking everything too seriously, wondering what food will kill us next and what disease we'll catch, this book is like a ray of sunshine. Read this book with a martini, in the tub or just before taking that leisurely mid-day nap!P.S. I would add to the list: gossip, flirting, buying splurges at bookstores, massages (perferably voluntary and spontaneous) dancing when home alone to music everyone else makes fun of, watching "Lifetime", any Judith Krantz novel, candles, body lotion and decolletage.
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Summary: It was a delicious read!
Review: This is an enjoyable book filled with short anecdotes of luxurious pleasures...some have been experienced, some provided new ideas. Ms Holland's writing style is humorous and genuine. I would recommend this to anyone who is sitting on a boat, curled up in a love seat, or lounging on a beach. This book can opened to virutually any area, with a smile and a nod of understanding being the inevitible response.
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Summary: Absolutely delightful companion for the armchair hedonist!
Review: This is one of my all-time favorite books, and I keep extra copies in various rooms around the house. In this delightful collection of essays, each devoted to a particular pleasure at risk of being forgotten in our busy lives, Barbara Holland eloquently and wittily persuades us to succumb to guilty indulgences such as bare feet, happy hour, chicken gravy, and calling in sick. She also celebrates the unabashed pleasures such as weekends, dawdling over the morning paper, gardening, and idle summer vacations. Ms Holland covers 67 pleasures in all, some of which you will instantly recognize, some of which it is never too late to start indulging in, and others that are just downright dangerous! Extremely engaging and often laugh-out-loud funny, this is a book to dip into every now and then, as a delicious antidote to the strains and stresses of modern life. It makes an excellent gift for any of the overworked, abstemious persons you know, including yourself.
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