BOOK REVIEW
Making It Up As I Go Along
Author: Marian Keyes
Synopsis:
Welcome to the magnificent Making It Up As I Go Along - aka the World According to Marian Keyes.
This is a bold and brilliant collection of Marian’s hilarious and often heartfelt observances on modern life, love, and everything in between.
If you are drawn to Irish humour and the wonderful Irish ‘terminology”, as I am, you will be truly entertained by Marian’s account of what it is to be Irish .
In this book she covers all areas of a life experienced in both dark and happy days. She manages to verbalise the most mundane experiences and somehow make them funny.
She offers advice on such topics as breaking up with your hairdresser, to entering the fifties zone, the joys of a nail varnish museum, how to cope with cancelled flights, overbooked hotels and how to survive an Irish family Christmas.
One section of her book is devoted to her travelling experiences and is a very funny read.
I particularly enjoyed her account of a meal in Portugal where she found the food to be totally flavourless and placed it further down the list than Irish food – to quote: “In Ireland it’s almost a national slogan –‘Guaranteed! No pesky flavours present in our food”. But in Portugal, we Irish are able to swank around behaving as if our native cuisine is as flavoursome and tasty as Korean, or French, or Peruvian”.
In another chapter she reminisces about ‘star quality’ people she has met on her book tours and those she has met with awe such as Aung San Suu Kyi.
Marian is happily married to ‘Himself” and lives in Dublin.
There are no offspring but she has nephews and nieces with whom she spends a lot of time and seems to be immensely proud of as there are many references to them as there are to her parents and siblings and their partners.
I have been totally entertained by this book and it is good to know that there are more of Marian Keyes’ writings available.
ROSALIE HOWARTH
Author: Marian Keyes
Synopsis:
Welcome to the magnificent Making It Up As I Go Along - aka the World According to Marian Keyes.
This is a bold and brilliant collection of Marian’s hilarious and often heartfelt observances on modern life, love, and everything in between.
If you are drawn to Irish humour and the wonderful Irish ‘terminology”, as I am, you will be truly entertained by Marian’s account of what it is to be Irish .
In this book she covers all areas of a life experienced in both dark and happy days. She manages to verbalise the most mundane experiences and somehow make them funny.
She offers advice on such topics as breaking up with your hairdresser, to entering the fifties zone, the joys of a nail varnish museum, how to cope with cancelled flights, overbooked hotels and how to survive an Irish family Christmas.
One section of her book is devoted to her travelling experiences and is a very funny read.
I particularly enjoyed her account of a meal in Portugal where she found the food to be totally flavourless and placed it further down the list than Irish food – to quote: “In Ireland it’s almost a national slogan –‘Guaranteed! No pesky flavours present in our food”. But in Portugal, we Irish are able to swank around behaving as if our native cuisine is as flavoursome and tasty as Korean, or French, or Peruvian”.
In another chapter she reminisces about ‘star quality’ people she has met on her book tours and those she has met with awe such as Aung San Suu Kyi.
Marian is happily married to ‘Himself” and lives in Dublin.
There are no offspring but she has nephews and nieces with whom she spends a lot of time and seems to be immensely proud of as there are many references to them as there are to her parents and siblings and their partners.
I have been totally entertained by this book and it is good to know that there are more of Marian Keyes’ writings available.
ROSALIE HOWARTH
