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It's My Fing Birthday
Author: Merrill Markoe

?In the coming year,? she said, hoisting her blindingly clean and gleaming glass into the air, ?may half of all your dreams come true.? — ?Mom,? I said to her, ?isn?t that kind of pathetic?? — ?Well, it?s realistic.? — It?s her thirty-sixth birthday, and she really thought things would be different this year?that she?d have figured out men and how ... more »to get along with her narcissistic parents enough to survive a birthday celebration. But nothing?s changed. Her disappointing day is capped off by the delivery of a huge bouquet of flowers from Carl, with whom she has recently, and bitterly, split. A gesture of reconciliation? Of passive aggression? She?s too unhinged to tell.

It?s My F---ing Birthday unfolds in seven state-of-my-life addresses this hapless high school art teacher writes to herself on consecutive birthdays, as she is determined to break the patterns of behavior that are keeping her down. Her objective: to avoid making the same mistakes over and over and start making some new ones. Through seven outrageously funny years of needling parents, self-absorbed boyfriends, riots, O.J., and Monica?and bigger and bigger bouquets from Carl?she navigates a circuitous (and ultimately successful) route to happiness in a world where everything seems to conspire to the contrary.

What I Learned This Year That I Need to Remember

1. No more taking the bait from Mom. Even if the fight becomes about not taking the bait.

2. No more dwelling in the past.

3. Try much harder to continue being a vegetarian. This will limit the restaurants the folks can take me to.

4. No more trying to decode the flowers from Carl. If he sends them again, just think of them as a fun, free thing, like a little sample box of cereal or detergent that suddenly appears in the mailbox.

5. Don?t make a big deal out of the fact that there were no guys this year. Perhaps that?s a better thing than continuing to get involved with guys who exhibit behavior from the beginning that indicates the whole thing is completely hopeless. So try to remember the above as a coping strategy when I am so crazed with horniness that I want to throw myself off a building.

6. No more mumbo jumbo. This means no more calling 900 astrology numbers listed at the end of horoscopes in women?s magazines to find out my love forecast. And no more going to psychics, no matter how dicey things get.

ISBN-13: 9780375507120
ISBN-10: 0375507124
Publication Date: 2/12/2002
Pages: 224
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Currently 3.2/5 Stars.

3.2 stars, based on 16 ratings

Publisher: Villard
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Christine M. reviewed It's My F---ing Birthday on 9/6/2006 + 29 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Not as funny as I had hoped. Some spots were a bit slow and some were really funny. If you've had some dysfunction in your life, especially with your parents, this book brings a little humor to it all.

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Leslie T. (les3098) reviewed It's My F---ing Birthday on 6/1/2006 + 31 more book reviews

very honest character

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Gayle (Leesa-Dee) - , reviewed It's My F---ing Birthday on 2/8/2012 + 48 more book reviews

I enjoyed this book although I found it hard to understand the main character's reluctance to stand up to her emotionally abusive parents. I should think that by the time one is 36, one would be able to tell the parents where to get off.
So the main character is a bit of a pushover but despite that, her story was interesting and a little bit amusing and, while not a real engrossing book, still made for a pretty good read.

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Gail B. (my2sense) - reviewed It's My F---ing Birthday on 3/15/2010 + 16 more book reviews

A single woman in L.A. celebrates seven of her birthdays with annual journal entries (beginning on her 36th) recounting her yearly endurance test a.k.a. her sure to be dreaded birthday "celebrations" with her dysfunctional family. Many singles will relate to the hilarious encounters with her series of "Mr. Wrongs" and some may think it over the top. If you relate to any it you will not only LOL but cringe and thank your lucky stars these things didn't happen to you. I've given this book as a b-day gift for a single friend that enjoys a cynical wit.

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SHARMAINE M. reviewed It's My F---ing Birthday on 3/7/2007 + 10 more book reviews

funny, sarcastic book

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