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I Lost Everything in the Postnatal Depression

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Erma Bombeck was, hands down, the funniest humor columnist to ever grace newspapers and bookstores. Even now, years after she passed way, her writings are still funny and topical.

In "I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression," as with most of her books, Erma Bombeck takes snippets of her life, her husband, and her three kids and relates them to us in a way that only she can. Everything from her husband's inability to start a fire in the fireplace to her own inability to cope with turning 40, nothing is sacred or forbidden when Erma writes about her life.

This book is funny, witty, relevant, and an easy read. If you're life is busy and complicated, take some time out to read this book. Erma has a way of making your life seem not so bad. If nothing else, it's a great way to spend a few minutes each day.

wonderful and funny lady. her books are GREAT. i have just recieved all of them and i am having great fun reading them. ALL of them came terrifically packaged. i was just as impressed by the way i recieved the books(12 in all and packaged separately for most of them) as i am by the humor of this wonderful writer who passed away several years ago. you are missed,Erma!!

This book mines some of the same marriage-and-family territory as the author's earlier "At Wit's End" and is very funny in a self-deprecating middle-aged way. In hindsight, you have to wonder if Erma was kind of shining us on when she wrote about things like how she doesn't have the confidence of working women and how she has social anxiety when forced to converse with strangers at a banquet table - if you Wiki her, you'll see that she was a pretty renowned and accomplished lady. But in any event, this book is still quite funny. Although you might need to look up a few names (Paul Newman used to be a sexy screen idol, not just the face on the salad dressing bottle), other situations lampooned in the book, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles experience, haven't changed a bit in 30+ years. I think this along with "At Wit's End" are Erma's two best, most classic works.

I own this book in Hardcover and softcover. It is a fantastic book one of Mrs. Bombeck's best!

I would buy this for an ebook to read on my phone but for $11.99!? I bought both of my current copies of this book for less than half of that! I do not understand the pricing of this book. Even the other two Bombeck books on amazon are $6.99 for ebook kindle versions. This is the exact reason why I have problems with ebook formats. The pricing doesn't make sense to me at all.