Kindle Book Author Spotlight: Erma Bombeck

Did you know that the wit and wisdom of Ermba Bombeck, one of America’s best-loved humorists, can be enjoyed in Kindle format?

The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (4/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99)

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? is Erma Bombeck’s timelessly witty look at the hidden side of married life.

Motherhood captures one of the toughest jobs on earth with humor and heart.

And The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank is Bombeck’s take on the unforgiving frontier of American suburbia.

 

Aunt Erma’s Cope Book: How To Get From Monday To Friday . . . In 12 Days (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $6.83)

Erma Bombeck’s hilarious guide to using self-help books to prosper or—more likely—to perish

As far as Erma can tell, her life is going well. Her children speak to her, her husband smiles at her, and she’s capable of looking in a mirror without screaming. But her friends know better. No matter how happy Erma thinks she is, she’s in need of help, and the only way to fulfillment is a ten-foot stack of self-improvement books. From Sensual Needlepoint to Fear of Buying, Erma will try them all.

One book recommends bringing roleplay into the bedroom, so she dresses up in her son’s football pads. She tries to meditate but gets stuck in the lotus position. She spends more time in the kitchen but only succeeds in melting her son’s retainer. No matter how hard she tries to improve her family life, her schemes keep backfiring. As she soon learns, you may not always be able to fix what’s not broken—but with enough self-help books, you can break anything you want.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

 

At Wit’s End (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $5.99)

One Amazon reviewer says:

What she writes about is as true in 2000 as it was in the 1970s. The environment may have changed — not nearly as many stay-at-home moms, and the ones that are tend to be working from home, et cetera.
But there are still husbands who decide to fix the plumbing themselves, there are still kids who want cupcakes and a costume for the school play on Sunday night, and there are still women with college educations who haven’t gotten to read a book other than the Dr. Seuss series since before the kids were born.

I understand now. I comprehend fully why my mother told me, when I asked as a naïve teenager what was so funny about Erma Bombeck, I’d understand later.

 

Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America’s Favorite Humorist (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $7.69)

An anthology of Erma Bombeck’s best writing, and a tribute to one of America’s sharpest wits…a collection of over 120 of her most popular and memorable essays.

When she began writing her regular newspaper column in 1965, Erma Bombeck’s goal was to make housewives laugh. Thirty years later, she had published more than four thousand columns, and earned countless laughs—from housewives, presidents, and everyone in between. With grace, good humor, and razor-sharp prose, she gently skewered every aspect of the American family. This collection holds the best of her columns—not just her famous quips, but also the heartbreaking observations that gave her writing such weight.

In 1969, Erma wrote: “screaming kids, unpaid bills, green leftovers, husbands behind newspapers, basketballs in the bathroom. They’re real . . . they’re warm . . . they’re the only bit of normalcy left in this cockeyed world, and I’m going to cling to it like life itself.” Three decades later, Bombeck’s writing remains a timeless examination of the still-cockeyed world.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

 

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