I’ve Got Sand in All the Wrong Places

I’ve Got Sand in All the Wrong Places by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca  Serritella              Audio Book:  5 hours, 32 minutes           Paperback Book:  352 pages          

This is the third book I have read by this awesome mother and daughter comedy duo.    Hilarious.    I laughed out loud so many times I lost count.     Such good storytelling here, everything they talk about and tell on themselves for our listening or reading pleasure are fraught with hilarious anecdotes.    They say they fight just like any other mother and daughter, but, you would never know it.   They are so in sync  with each other and the warmth and love they express is sincerely heartfelt.   They deliver punchlines so spot on you could picture them doing standup comedy at a club but I guess they save it for their presentations at booksignings.  J    They also hold get-togethers at Lisa’s house for their fans.    Both ladies do comedy books together in which they trade off telling funny stories, but, each also writes in other genres and each have several books in print.   I dearly love their comedy works this is the third of their comedy writings I have read and I want to read them all as well as their other writings.   They are excellent story tellers when talking about their own lives, so, I am curious to see what their fiction titles are like.     I highly recommend this book as I lost count on how many laugh out loud moments I had.   In this book Francesca also tells the story of the time she got mugged on her street when she returned home a subway ride with friends who had all left a party.   The mugging happened around 1:00a.m.  She was walking down her street and was 2 blocks away from her door when she was attacked from behind.   Francesca doesn’t tell the story as a victim but as a survivor.   Though she was beaten up, she will not let it stop her from walking her dog on her street at night and not stop her from going and coming as she pleases.   She takes the experience in her stride and pulls funny bits she observed.   She is good.   Lisa and Francesca see things through their own perspective Lisa is the mother with two ex-husbands – the first was Francesca’s Dad and she has lots of stories to tell about aging and things that are meaningful to those of us in our 60s while Francesca sees life through the eyes of of a recently turned thirty something, still reveling in the tales of her 20 something years and now into her new decade as a thirty something.    Nothing is taboo for these gals and the way they tell it – its going to be real and its going to be witty and it is definetly going to be comical.   I highly recommend all of the comedy titles with these two ladies dishing up the humor – they are a riot!