Short Book Review: Life Begins When the Kids Leave Home and the Dog Dies

I finished reading the book, and even wrote a full-length review with quotes on my home computer, over the weekend. For now, here's the short review on Goodreads:

Life Begins When The Kids Leave Home And The Dog Dies by Barb Taub
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Around the time Erma Bombeck's roll-on-the-floor mom-comedy mellowed into sweet grandma-type stories, her gift of hilarity moved on to Barb Taub. The Midwest has been keeping these mom-comedy newspaper columns all to themselves for too long.

What's not to love? In weekly newspaper columns it's possible to reuse jokes over the years. It's unfortunate that a joke is reused in two of the first few reprints in "Life Begins." I mention this because it made me wonder how much repetition there was going to be in this book. Actually, very little. Each page contains fresh lines and funny stories.

Read this book when you want to laugh out loud, and only when you can, because you will.


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