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Home Sweat Home: A For Better or For Worse Collection (For Better or for Worse Collections)

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I have read and reread all of Lynn's books and this newest addition is another great collection.

This book, more than most shows the major changes that this family has gone through over the years. At times, I still find the portrayal of Mike's kids to be a little too 'syrupy' but otherwise this book is great.

I think we have seen the end of an era.

I have followed "FBOFW" for many years. Was even pregnant at the same time that Elly was "pregnant" with April. Lynn Johnston captures the ups and downs of family life like no one else. Very enjoyable read!

I loved this latest For Better or Worse. I've followed the adventures of Ellie, John, and the kids for years. Reading about Elizabeth's romantic adventures and her grandfather's trial and tribulations are compelling.

Watching Michael and his family grow and thrive is cool too, as is watching April's story too. I'd have liked to see a little more about Ellie and John, but that's not really a complaint. Just a suggestion.

For Better or Worse is as always funny, heart-warming, and sometimes a little sad.

Once more Lynn just surprise me with this Home Sweat Home book! You would think that by now all the characters would get into the same routine but NO! The ideas are always fresh and I cannot wait to turn the page to discover all those new story lines!

I absolutely enjoyed this book. I love the For Better ror Worse comic strip and was thrilled to buy a book by this author. Thanks!

The life of the Patterson Family continues. Hardship and pain, relationtion ships and children. Lynn still projects the sense of Family and real world in her comics.

I have loved all of Lynn Johnstons books. I have almost everyone of them and love to reread them from beginning to the latest one. Her cartoon family and mine have grown up together. I feel like I have good friends sharing the same problems and joys.

Done it again. I absolutely love For Better or For Worse. The only thing better than reading the series in the paper daily is getting these themed collections of the strips to read over and over again. You can't go wrong here.

It's the only place where funny, spoiled kids magically transform into extremely good-looking grown creatures with good-looking kids of their own to raise - or simply ignore in favor of writing global bestsellers to rake in great fortune and fame.

If one of those kids haven't married yet, she will come home like an obedient cow in spite of being a mouth-watering, adventurous babe with flowing honey hair and full lips who teach bright-eyed young Native American children (who can easily manipulate her into anything) to meet some ho-hum nerd she has known from childhood and humbly settle into the same lifestyle as her own mother and her silly friends who had dutifully lived through bad decisions they made as young housewives.

It's also the only land in the whole world where heavyset, homely girls who take five minutes to finish a sentence can team up with stunning vixens like April to fight against the evils of stuck-up popular kids and jealously guarded cliques to make life better for ANYONE who isn't beautiful or rich or 100% physically perfect (like...well, April and Elizabeth are.)

In spite of their very breathtaking appearance, our lovable imaginary friends still end up in confusing mishaps anyway. Michael and his family bravely face down literally odorous neighbors, insane in-laws, a fire, a hot night, and of course, squabbling brats. Beautiful young Elizabeth courageously dodges jealous rivals, their disgruntled little daughters she would HAVE to adopt as her own, still another horny pervert who falls drunken into her arms, her approaching old age, and of course, the reality about her future husband, who had openly lusted after her even during his first marriage. And the youngest princess, April is just so sweet and PRETTY she had been cruelly betrayed by her best friend, Becky, who has turned a famous pop tart (like Britney Spears!) and Gerald, who just wanted her body, of course. At least the black kid who hangs out with April seems like a decent friend - for now, that is.

Just like this comic strip, Elly's time is slowly coming to an end. That's why she looks the way she does now. So does Connie, who humbly knows that they are no longer centerfold material (and have never been anyway.) But at least the elderly ladies mercifully get a time travel ride back into the good ol' days (the old reruns, of course), which really AREN'T "good ol' days" after all as poor younger Elly screams, fusses, scolds, nags, and chases after two young mischief-makers around the house three decades ago.

Ironically, this isn't really the wistful, dreamy fairy tale it is today.