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Notes From The Underwire: Adventures From My Awkward And Lovely Life (2009)

by Quinn Cummings(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1401322867 (ISBN13: 9781401322861)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Hachette Books

review 1: Gentle readers, I snorted. Frequently. I chuckled constantly. I may have even guffawed. More than once.From the awesome cover, immediately recognizable to those of us Of A Certain Age as a Maidenform bra ad (I dreamt I soared to new heights in my Maidenform bra!)to the tales within of growing up semi-famous in Hollywood (nominated for an Academy Award!) to raising a daughter in LA, or more specifically, West Hollywood (trick-or-treating was quite the treat), Cummings is a witty delight.
review 2: Quinn Cummings is a former child star living a quiet life in Los Angeles. Mother to a pre-teen daughter, lover of pets, and witness to the crazy lifestyles of La La Land, Quinn shares humorous stories about her experience as a former child actor, her family life, a... morend the unexpected surprises her pets bring her. If you could tell from my lackluster description of the book above, I wasn’t very jazzed about this memoir. I read a lot of books like this, and to be honest, they all sort of blend together. Quinn Cummings, like Laurie Notario, Jen Lancaster, and Celia Rivenbark, has a pretty much run-of-the-mill sense of humor, but Quinn Cummings was a bit less humorous than the rest. She talked a lot about Los Angeles, but I feel like Ali Wentworth’s book, Ali in Wonderland, offered a much more interesting take on LA life. She’s married with a run-down house and a kid with no boundaries who she writes about a lot, and I’m a 22 year old singleton moving into my first all-on-my-own apartment in a couple of days. While I found myself chuckling at times, I found a lot of her stories hard to relate to and for that reason, they didn’t really make me laugh too much.Maybe if you have children in that pre-teen age group, you’d find this book more interesting, but to me, it was a rather forgettable read. Apparently she’s just released a new book, The Year of Living Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling which appears to focus entirely on her daughter and the lengths Quinn goes to for her education (which actually makes me feel really bad for her poor kid), which might be a better choice for mothers looking for a book to read about another woman’s problems raising a teenage girl. less

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