Ladies' Room Reader: The Ultimate Women's Trivia Book (Paperback)

by Alicia Alvrez (Author) "Shopping has been a love of women for millennia..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Alicia Alvarez supplies fun and fancy for the fair sex in The Ladies' Room Reader: The Ultimate Women's Trivia Book. Loosely organized into broad chapters--"Women Get Malled," "Women in Bed"--and rife with facts, rumors, stories, quotations and advice, the book covers everything from where to get a casket for your deceased pet, to the average number of hours women spend having sex during their lifetime (620), to Marlene Dietrich's most impressive sexual conquests. Alvarez treats her readers and her trivia with a companionable, practical levity as she makes dizzying leaps from topic to topic. A great gift book for a heterosexual audience.

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Product Description
Fifty-seven percent of women would rather shop than have sex. Jodie Foster was born Ariane Munker, and Lauren Bacall, Betty Joan Perske. Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, both nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscars for The Color Purple, were the first two African-American women nominated in the same year for the same category. At the height of her popularity, screen star Betty Grable had her legs insured for $25,000 - a modest sum compared to the $650,000 policy Fred Astaire took out on his feet! These nuggets, along with everything else you've ever wanted to know about women, are to be found within this easy-to-browse resource. Here are women's views on shopping, clothing and cosmetics, marriage and children, food, sex, and pets, along with the lowdown on women celebrities and the feats of history's heroines and female adventurers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Conari Press (March 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573245577
• ISBN-13: 978-1573245579
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #100,435 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating and diverse compendium of historical trivia, April 29, 2001

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

The Ladies Room Reader: The Ultimate Women's Trivia Book is a fascinating and diverse compendium of historical trivia concerning women's issues and experiences. From marriage, to pets, to favorite foods, to sex, this remarkably informative 306-page book offers a wealth of amazing and surprising statics, such as 57% of women reporting that they would rather go shopping than have sex. From makeup (the wearing of which goes back at least 8,000 years) to inventions (the dishwasher was invented by a socialite who was discouraged about the job her hired help was doing on her dishes), The Ladies Room Reader is ideal for browsing and would make for a fun and educational addition to personal, women's studies and popular culture reading lists.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for perusing in the powder room, June 22, 2001

By	Carol C. "ccjello" (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

A girlfriend sent this to me as a pick-me-up. At first, I set it aside as fluff, but once I got started, I couldn't put it down. The book contains nine fact-filled fascinating chapters, with good stuff on every page. It's fun whether you read a single page or sit down & read it through. The chapters are about (1) shopping, (2) cosmetics, (3) food, (4) sex, (5)the female body, (6) love/marriage/babies, (7) pets, (8) entertainers, and (9) female firsts. The books is jam-packed with facts (and the author respectfully provides the sources for some of the "facts", allowing the reader to discount or credit the "facts" as appropriate), facts like "Forty percent of us women have thrown a shoe (average size: 8B) at a man who has offended us" and "Women say approximately 7,000 words a day; men, 2000." Okay, it won't change your life, but it's interesting, light reading.

5.0 out of 5 stars Who knew??, December 3, 2008

By	Edith Koepnick (Reno, NV USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is just chock full of fascinating bits of information you didn't know you needed to know. It is fun, interesting and does not have to be read in any special order - we are not talking "novel" here. And it can be read over and over. I received a copy from my Mom as a cute gift a few years ago and enjoyed it so much I have purchased copies from time to time for the friends I knew would appreciate light and amusing reading material. Naturally, my much worn and thumbed copy lives quietly in the master bathroom...