A Walk in the Snark [Kindle Edition]

Rachel Thompson (Author)

Book Description

<span></span>***See why A Walk In The Snark won Best Runner-up 2012 Nonfiction Virtual Book Fair Indie Book Awards!*** 

**See Thompson's first book and decide for yourself if you love it -- or hate it! 

• 
  Thank YOU for making A Walk In The Snark a #1 Bestseller on multiple
  charts including Motherhood, Parenting & Family, Family
  Relationships, Advice/How-To, Women's Studies and more! AND a Top 100 Overall Paid bestseller!
• Be forewarned -- the material in this collection has been called controversial in nature. It is a relationship book based on the author's popular blog. There are recurrent themes regarding men and women, love and loss, romance and parenting. This is intentional. 
• It's not ALL humor, but it IS all honest. Can you handle the snark? 

Sometimes I think I'm too jaded. Then I think no, it's just the lighting.

Praise for A Walk In The Snark -- now a #1 Bestseller!

5 of 5 stars!

--The commonalities we all share is what makes this book spark to life.

Tony Eldridge, Author, The Samson Effect

--Thank you for making the lives of women and men more intelligible, Rachel, and for making us laugh at ourselves! 

Berit Ellingsen, Author, The Empty City

• Rachel believes "Men are from Seinfeld, Women are from Friends,"
  and so do her legions of fans. She dares to ask "Why do men want to
  change the world, but can't change a roll of toilet paper?" 
• Are you offended easily? Take satire literally? Don't buy this book. 

See why everyone is buying this book! Mancode, Chickspeak, and much, much more! 

See why critics love it! 

More praise: 

5/5 Stars: 

Crisp, cutting, and caffeinated. A gem of a read.

~Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, Author, I Could Tell You Stories; Editor-In-Chief, Indie Ink

The
author's wicked sense of humor sprinkles every day stories of
relationship angst with spicy hot pepper with keeping it real adventure.

~Bonnie Jean Adams, Chicago Culture And Events Examiner 

• Want
  to know why this book reached #1 on the Kindle Motherhood list (and
  Parenting & Families, and Women's Studies and...) and is still a
  mainstay months and months later?

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

You can find Rachel most days on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, providing social media tips on her own interactive Twitter stream and popular blog, consulting with social media clients (See BadRedhead Media), or promoting her books A Walk In The Snark and The Mancode: Exposed, both Kindle bestsellers!

On December 20, 2012, she released Broken Pieces, her first non-humor collection of essays, prose and poetry to terrific reviews! Pick up a copy today! 

 
Rachel lived in the OC, aka Orange County, CA (home of Disneyland) for over seventeen years and recently moved back to family and friends in the Sacramento, CA area. Somewhere in there, this redhead in a sea of blondes fits in being a full-time wife and mom to her two young children and just one husband. She loves coffee, the occasional dirty martini, and misses sleep. 
 

Rachel was profiled by Sean Gardner (April, 2011) in the Huffington Post Books section regarding social media and ePublishing, was chosen by BlogWorld as one of twenty-three 

'Brilliant Bloggers' in March, 2012, and recently shouted out on Forbes (August 2012) -- wait for it -- three times! She's also a monthly San Francisco Book Review columnist and guest writer for 12Most and BitRebels. Check it out!

Product Details

• File Size: 582 KB
• Print Length: 162 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004KKZ3GC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,503 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #23 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Parenting & Relationships > Parenting > Emotions & Feelings
  • #55 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Parenting & Relationships > Family Relationships > Motherhood

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 65 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Author Has Pegged It Right On! March 13, 2011

By Tony

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I downloaded a trial of "A Walk In The Snark" and within 10 minutes, I just had to purchase the rest. I was laughing and rolling my eyes at the same time, while a nagging thought kept asking, "How does this author know me and my wife so well?" I took comfort that there are indeed more men like me and more women like my wife who put up with us. Even the most mundane tasks, like shopping with a list that our wife gave us, seems to be taken right out of my life.

Many authors try to capture the humor in our relationships in a way that is endearing as well. Rachel has done that marvelously. I can only imagine how much women enjoy this book, but to the men out there... trust me, you'll love this book, you'll laugh with it and you'll even try to convince yourself that it isn't really you in there. But the commonalities we all share is what makes this book spark to life.

47 of 53 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Walk in the Snark January 26, 2011

By the Bam

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I've been reading "Rachelintheoc" since I discovered her blog. She looks at life with a different view and turns little annoyances into funny, heart-warmning, and yes, sarcastic commentary. Her essays bring truth to life, and can be downright laughable, or tear-jerkers, or just head nodding (with thoughts of why didn't I think of it that way.) I thoroughly recommend this book to all men and women who like to look at life from a different viewpoint.

43 of 49 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Talented New Voice February 23, 2011

By L.M. Stull

Format:Kindle Edition

I met Rachel through her blog and the IBC. Oh lord, is this lady funny! And talented!

A Walk in the Snark is a fine collection of snarky posts about relationships, about men, about woman, about how they interact. It also has some truly heartfelt passages in it about loss, about love and how the two go hand-in-hand.

This is a book worth picking up and reading. It is a refreshing, daring, frank discussion about all things man and woman.

Bravo to Rachel on her debut! I most certainly cannot wait to read more from this very talented writer.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Rachel in the OC - Let's take a Walk... January 30, 2011

By Daniel Audet

Format:Kindle Edition

Rachel, Rachel, Rachel.
RachelintheOC.
For the first time in a LONG time, upon reading the very latest from the upwardly mobile west coast suburban mind of "Our Lady in the OC" - I laughed. I just plain laughed.
Words like "Manesia", (I think I have that, often, and the doctor says it's permanent, with me), "Refrigeratoritis" and other brilliant new terms (which I believe will become part of 21st century Americana speech) all come under her own trademarked heading of "The Mancode" and a new and shadowy term and/or secret society she calls: "Chickspeak."
Underneath her "snarky" witty perspective and very clever writing is, I think....a true desire on Rachel's part to change the world, one guy at a time.
So, let the training begin! Wait...What? (guy panic, I'm ok now)
I must announce at this point that I have resolved, Thanks to Ms.R, to be "the man" and actually change the toilet paper roll from now on. Hamper etiquette and other "guy" "rights" were battles long ago fought and LOST, by yours truly. I keep quiet, I cook, take out the trash and do laundry. I even surrender the remote, on occasion. I think Rachel might be very pleased.
(I'm working on the anniversary thing....I swear!)
Rachel's love of 80's rock is quite endearing, as is her instructional manual for women, regarding "war paint" and other personal issues. P.S. - I know what a "Chanel" is: It's ESPN, Discovery and Spike TV, right? Right?
As a guy, I'd rather shovel snow naked in Siberia than have dinner at the "in-laws", though in our case it's just dear old "Mom" (argggg, I just bit my tongue..), but...I do.
Chick Time? Huh? What?
Lists? Huh? What?
Rach- can I call you Rach? Rach has her own way of covering the bases of life from her very own place in the sun.... She freely dispenses her lofty wisdom to both men and women with humor and a hint of an edge that makes a guy not want to mess with her.
Shopping? Huh? What? (guy panic again...I'm ok now)
Of Rachel's 4 types of "male" shoppers I think I'm the closest to "Mr. Happy."
And, SPS is not an affliction I posess. Wohooooo!
Could you speak up please? My "selective hearing" is acting up again..HAH!
"M.A.N. Disease" is an epidemic here in the U.S.! (I did not know that...)
It goes on and on.
Closet space? Uhhhh, we have a closet?
Prada? Isn't that near Cleveland?
Dinners out, Christmas trees. "Her Redness" covers all domestic, (she's a visionary...), subjects fearlessly.
Finally folks, Rach, I gotta tell ya - I will/can never look at a "coffee maker" the same way again. EVER.
Hmmmm, I wonder if they come in red?

Rachel, "The Mancode Maven," has a heart for battered women and kids and is involved with these issues, locally. Rachel gives us a "no-holds-barred" insight to her trek here on earth, including opening her heart and discussing a true, and, what must be for her, extremely painful story about someone she loved very much. She's a founding member of the "Indie Book Collective" and is a feature player in a great and very well done indie author tour called "Blog Tour de Force". All available through the links associated somewhere herein or through her Twitter page @rachelintheOC .
Ladies - "THE BEST OF RACHELINTHEOC: A WALK IN THE SNARK" - a collection of Rachel's best stuff, should be at the top of your "recommended readin'" list for you and your guymanperson. Maybe it should even be a required reading "manual" for marriage. I'm pretty sure it could solve ALL the problems couples face, stop global warming and result in a true and lasting world peace. If nothing else it'll make you think, laugh, think, and laugh some more. Read more ›

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars SwiftInkEditor April 4, 2011

By Jessica Swift

Format:Kindle Edition

Seriously, a great read. Take a break from your own daily life and walk through Rachel Carsman Thompson's snark. She hits on everthing in the most hysterical but dead-on way. Want to know why men do what they do? Need to laugh about someone else's children? Wish you had a drink? With trademark humor and wit, @RachelintheOC tells it like is--sipping a martini and tweeting the entire time!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is awesome! June 9, 2011

By A. Harris

Format:Kindle Edition

I came across Rachel through another author and found her to be hilarious and quite insightful in the areas of chick speak and mancode. I couldt wait to read this book and find out what the heck snark was. I was not disappointed. From page one, I laughed until there actual tears! This book was a huge hit and much need diversion from the highly inappropriate conversations at work.
Despite the comedy, I was moved by her sharing the emotional story of her ex. It was truly a great read.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Witty, Sexy & Snarky March 24, 2011

By Kimberly Kinrade

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Sexy snark with pieces of poignant melancholy that will break your heart. (But don't worry, she'll stitch it back up with her trademark wit & humor!) The best of @RachelintheOC is truly the best. Literally #LOL funny with tales everyone can relate to. #mancode & #chickspeak revealed. If you haven't read this yet, YOU MUST! This "redhead in a sea of blonds" unlocks the secrets of marriage and relationships with the wit and humor that has made her blog a hit with readers everywhere.

26 of 30 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and intriguing! February 5, 2011

By FP

Format:Kindle Edition

I had the pleasure of reading A Walk in the Snark, which is Rachel's nonfiction novel about the strange habits of men, chick speak, (or the confusing language of women) and everything in between. If you're looking for a hilarious nonfiction piece from someone who's observed the ins and outs of the OC, then this is the book for you.

Rachel's personality shines through every page of this book. In a way, she reminds me of Chelsea Handler. I enjoyed reading about her observation on men (I mean, why on earth do they insist on wearing funky golf pants?) and her keen eye for women (Why do we say "it's fine" when we mean the total opposite? Do we expect men to read our minds?).

A Walk in the Snark is filled with quirky and hilarious insight. It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, you will definitely learn something new from her work.

More About the Author

Site: http://RachelintheOC.com
Twitter: @RachelintheOC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RachelThompsonauthor
Email: [e-mail]

Rachel Thompson (aka RachelintheOC) is a bestselling author and social media/author marketing consultant.

Her three books, A Walk In The Snark, The Mancode: Exposed and Broken Pieces are all #1 Kindle bestsellers! Midwest Book Review and two Amazon Top 10 Hall of Fame reviewers all gave Broken Pieces five stars!

When not writing, she helps authors and other professionals with branding and social media for her company, BadRedhead Media. Her articles appear regularly in the San Francisco Book Review (BadRedhead Says...), 12Most.com, bitrebels.com, and BookPromotion.com.

She hates walks in the rain, running out of coffee, and coconut.

Buy Now : A Walk in the Snark * Mancode: Exposed * Broken Pieces


***On December 20, 2012, she released Broken Pieces, her first non-humor collection of essays, prose and poetry to terrific reviews! Pick up a copy today! ***