Elinor Lipman. (2013). I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays. Unabridged Dreamscape Media.

Elinor Lipman. 2013. I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays. Dreamscape Media.

Elinor Lipman, I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays. Dreamscape Media, 2013.

Elinor Lipman. I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays. Unabridged Dreamscape Media, 2013.

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   • content: One couldn't ask for a better narrator for this wonderful collection of personal remembrances than its author, Elinor Lipman. Lipman, who has written many acclaimed and popular novels, has a pleasant voice with the perfect lift and enthusiasm for the funny pieces; "Sex Ed" is one of the many laugh-out-loud essays in the collection. And her voice's gentle resonance enhances the most moving essays, including those that may make the listener weep. One of those, "Nine Months Passed," about her beloved husband's illness and death, causes Lipman audibly to tear up and recover while reading. It's just such moments that make this a particularly special listening experience. Prepare to be enchanted. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
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     January 21, 2013
     In charming and often self-deprecating fashion, novelist Lipman (The View from Penthouse B) has penned an engaging and moving series of essays about her life—some previously published in the Boston Globe (“Boy Meets Girl,” “I Want to Know”), others in Good Housekeeping (“Good Grudgekeeping”) and the New York Times (“Confessions of a Blurb Slut”). The most touching is Lipman’s tribute to her late husband, Bob Austin, in “This Is for You,” and the loving treatment of her son, Benjamin, in the same essay, lauding him for his help during his father’s last days. (Earlier in the collection, the laugh-filled “Sex Ed” provides a hysterical look at the author and her doctor husband trying to explain the reproductive process to their fifth-grader son.) “No Outline? Is That Any Way to Write a Novel?” offers a fascinating glimpse into Lipman’s creative process. Whether or not one is a Lipman fan before reading this collection, he or she most certainly will be by the time the final page is turned.

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