A Walk in the Snark [Kindle Edition]

Rachel Thompson (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

• Thank YOU for making A Walk In The Snark a #1 Bestseller on multiple charts! Motherhood, Parenting & Family, Family Relationships, Advice/How-To -- we've lowered the price to only 99cents!
• Be forewarned -- the material in this book has been called controversial in nature. It is based on the author's popular blog. There are recurrent themes regarding men and women, love and loss. It's not all funny. 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?" 
• Drawing on her decades (#deargod has it been that long?) of marriage, friendships, and past relationships, Rachel's specialty is observing male behavior and dissecting it with humor (Shopping is NOT a Verb). Think of her as the Scientist of Snark...without the ugly white lab coat #asif

Husband: Mumble, mumble, mumble.

Daughter: What?

Me: It's okay. I speak husband.

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 

• If you want to laugh, cry, and risk blowing coffee out of your nose at Rachel's unique take on life (Manesia, anyone), you've GOT to buy this book today! 

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

Buy it! 

• ***Want more of Rachel's unique brand of humor? Purchase her latest release: The Mancode: Exposed, already a #1 Kindle Top 100 Paid bestseller! 
• ***Want to learn more about self-publishing, eBooks and social media? Pick up Dollars & Sense: The Definitive Guide to Self-Publishing Success (cowritten by Thompson).

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!

She also cowrote Dollars & Sense: The Definitive Guide To Self-Publishing. 
 
Rachel lives in the OC, aka Orange County, CA (home of Disneyland). 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 sleep. 
 
Rachel was profiled by Sean Gardner (April, 2011) in the Huffington Post Books section, regarding social media and ePublishing. Check it out! 

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 441 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004KKZ3GC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,296 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #9 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Advice & How-to > Parenting & Families > Family Relationships > Motherhood
  • #23 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor > Parenting & Families
  • #24 in Books > Parenting & Relationships > Family Relationships > Motherhood

More About the Author

I'm a chick who writes stuff that makes you laugh. My book A Walk In The Snark hit #1 on the Kindle Motherhood list this past September (do you think they know I talk about sex? Shhh.). It's since hit about oh, SEVEN more times. #woot! I've been nominated for Funniest Blog, Best Humor Writer & Redhead Who Makes A Killer Dirty Martini (okay, I made the last one up, but it's true. Honest.).

I released The Mancode: Exposed right after Thanksgiving 2011! Two books of snarky goodness, baby.

I've been told I write in the style of that Dickens guy. Kidding.

I'm a mom, a wife, and a recovering pharmaceuticals rep. It's been a long process but I'm doing okay, thanks.

I also used to sell Trojan brand condoms. Yeah, it's hilarious, I know. I did it for three years way back when, and I was their top salesperson in the Western Region, a dubious honor at best. My number-one customer was the Mustang Ranch. No, seriously. The Mustang Ranch. I couldn't make stuff like that up.

The experience definitely gave me insights into the... er... ins and outs of men.

So it should come as no great surprise that I write about how men (The Mancode) and women (Chickspeak) approach most things differently. And since I did, in fact, grow past my Trojan days (in more ways than one or--insert your own joke here), I've thrown in a few tidbits about marriage, kids, being a mom, living in the OC (ya know-being a pale redhead living in a sea of blondes), coffee, and vodka. Not necessarily in that order, depending on the day.

Don't read this book to find advice about how to be sweet or nice. I'm pretty much allergic to both of those words. Actually don't read this book for advice on anything. (My lawyer made me put that in just in case you know, you thought I could save your marriage or something - not).

Or if you are looking for some light, heartfelt humor in everyday life (Erma Bombeck-style), well, I'm really not your girl, either. Nothin' homespun about the Queen of Snark, baby. Mostly I just laugh at stuff and make up words (See "Refrigeratoritis and Manesia.") Yet somehow it all seems to work.

And don't call me cute. (Hint: Babies and puppies are cute. Grown women are soooo not.)

Special note to men: I write frequently about "The Mancode"--like how you guys do goofy stuff and we women try, and often fail, to understand. (Um, change the toilet paper roll much? Yeah, that's what I thought.) If that offends your sensibilities, this may not be the book for you. Yeah, I'm crushed.

Like everyone, I've also had some rough times. I share those with you, too. Life can't always be martinis and beaches. Wait, this is the OC (Orange County, CA, for those of you from Canada, or people on the East Coast who don't know California beyond LA). Naw, not even here.

So, welcome to RachelintheOC.

Now go read an essay or two and find something to laugh at, would ya?

I have to go help my husband find the butter. Again.

(I've also cowritten a #1 bestselling book about self-publsihing and social media called DOLLARS & SENSE: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING SUCCESS with Carolyn McCray and Amber Scott. Look for it here on Amazon.

If you want something completely different from me, check out the horror anthology, THE EVIL WITHIN, released October, 2011. All the stories are sssscary. Mine is called THERE ARE NO MONSTERS. Boo.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Tony "Author of The Samson Effect" (Forney, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Walk in the Snark (Kindle Edition)

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.

44 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

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

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the Bam - See all my reviews

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This review is from: A Walk in the Snark (Kindle Edition)

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.

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

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

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L.M. Stull - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Walk in the Snark (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.