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Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life

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These essays, like Mallick's Toronto Star columns, are an endless exercise in narcicism. Her work is a churning kaleidoscope of facts, factoids and notions, the only constant being her out-sized ego. She has written that her husband is the only man she knows who is smarter than her. Kidding, not so kidding. Not surprisingly, the most common word in her writing is "I". Oh, and she despises Amazon reviews.

Laughing out loud while reading is a rare pleasure. There aren't many books that make you lose yourself so completely that you snort out loud, guffaw, catch yourself unawares.
This is such a book. I sniggered all through it, but Heather's "Letter to my Writer's Block" had me giggling helplessly and snorting in a most unladylike way. (Perhaps too close to home?). Yeah, Heather does rant on about Americans in a hurtful way but it's so cleverly, surgically done that I couldn't help but laugh there - and really, what WAS there to like about Bush?
It's an honest book, and it made me feel like Ms. Mallick was sitting across the table from me with her second glass of wine and some home made food of the Martha variety and we were sharing laughs at the foolishness of life together. I'm on the hunt now for her other book and I am an eternal fan. Anyone who can throw together words in such a witty wonderful way has my soul for life.
Bravo.

I'm going to buy this book on the basis of the two reviews above. Never before have I read reviews that persuaded me more that I would like someone's writing. "Only a Canadian" indeed! We're more welcome, more loved and more respected than some of our neighbours (you can guess who), so we'll wear the "only a Canadian" label with our usual self-deprecating pride; it's far preferrable to the overweaning hubris of some in North America.

Don't buy anything by this so-called 'writer' from the banana republic of canada. She is a white-trash narcissistic know-nothing wannabee American, but she's just a canadian, nothing more. She is just jealous that she isn't an American, only a canadian, and so she makes disgusting, negative comments about a VP Candidate -- Sarah Palin -- and her family.

She is the worst of the worst.