You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark

Feel free to fill in the rest of the story yourself. Each one is designed to grab your attention and hold it. Who better to learn from than seven of the best writers North Carolina has to offer? And who better to help them than seven terrific artists and photographers? Some of these great beginnings were written specifically for this issue, some are the first few words of books appearing in stores near you soon, and others were just kind of kicking around on laptops.

Since everything in the Year of the Pandemic is cloaked in a bit of the unknown, our Summer Reading Issue of 2020 is all about capturing imaginations. Charlie Bit Your Finger? Good! And other thoughts on the virus that is YouTubeĪnd much more! For any woman who longs for the good old days when Jane Fonda in legwarmers was the only one who saw you exercise, YOU DON'T SWEAT MUCH FOR A FAT GIRL is comfort food in book form.Let’s be honest, who among us sails on through the master class on whale anatomy if Herman Melville doesn’t write “Call me Ishmael” right out of the blocks in Moby Dick? At the top of every writer’s job description is the ability to kidnap the reader’s imagination and keep it, at least for a while. Movie To-Do List: Cook Like Julia, Adopt Really Big Kid Twitter Woes: I've Got Plenty of Characters, Just No Character I Dreamed a Dream That My Lashes Were Long Menopause Spurs Thoughts of Death and Turkey

In it you'll find essays on such topics as: In her newest wickedly irreverent humor collection, Celia Rivenbark cracks up while getting her downward facing dog on, pines for a world in which every mom gets to behave like Betty Draper and wonders why everybody's so excited about the Science Fair when there aren't even any rides.

From the bestselling, award-winning author of You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning, comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere

You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark