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PINK
WORLD/LOVE YOURSELF MONTH
"How
much do I heart Hilary? Let me count the ways.
She’s a killer multi-tasker, she’s
author of the very cool ‘Queen of the Oddballs’,
she’s the ultimate pink thinkin’ go-for-it
girl…she rocks my pink knee high socks
-- she’ll rock yours too. Fact."
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LICKERATURE
"Read
the book. You'll love it, whether you're moved
by her honest journey to try to just be herself,
or whether you just like reading about celebs."
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LIBRARIANNE
"Carlip
is a superb writer, identifies cultural and
personal connections to beat the band, and makes
you wish you could be in her group of friends."
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24/7
GAY
"Like
the best of such books, by the time you finish
the last page of Queen of the Oddballs,
you’ll have laughed, cried, wanted to bitch
slap Oprah — and, hopefully, learned something
important about life."
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HER
TEETH FLASH FEAR
"... Queen of the Oddballs was in my friend’s
bathroom and I was so enchanted by it, that I
pretended to be constipated to keep reading it.
Eventually, my friend grew suspicious, and I had
to put the sweet book down. I sneaked to the local
bookstore and read the rest of it on one of the
comfy chairs meant to help people try out books.
After reading it, I was so floored that I bought
it immediately." |
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BITTER
CUP OF JOE
"Hillary is such a genuine and sweetly funny
woman that you will just fall in love with this
book, I guarantee!"
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MONEYPANTS
An awesome site devoted
to making finances SIMPLE. They have a weekly
interview with interesting peeps answering questions
about money. So why not see what I have to say?!
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OUTSMART
MAGAZINE
"Part
time capsule, part journal, part storytelling
at its best, this book is all fun. A perfect
beach read, this one is too good to be missed."
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SFgate.com
LIT
PICK. "...BRASSY MEMOIR."
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MEDIA
BISTRO - GALLEYCAT
Talks
about me and the Fabulous Memoirists Collective
I'm a part of featuring fellow BRILL authors
Josh Kilmer-Purcell,(I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS;
HarperCollins), Maria Dahvana Headley, (THE
YEAR OF YES; Hyperion), and Danielle Trussoni,
(FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH; Holt). Check out
what we're up to, and the contests we have to
help aspiring writers at www.myspace.com/thememoiristscollective
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CONVERSATIONS
WITH FAMOUS WRITERS
"I
kept wanting to see what each chapter held,
like an adventure with your best friend, never
quite knowing which direction you are headed
in next." An interview with the fabulous
Cindy, aka "Distressed Jeans."
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THE
FAGULOUS BLOG
"....
A roller-coaster ride through the latter half
of the twentieth century that will have you
laughing, learning and living alongside our
heroine."
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THE
REBEL HOUSEWIFE
"Compulisively
readable... QUEEN
OF THE ODDBALLS is truly unique, and a wonderful
journey of self-discovery, re-invention, and
self-acceptance.... The reason I LOVE Hillary
Carlip is because she tells the unvarnished,
sometimes painful, but usually hysterical, honest-to-god
TRUTH, skewering those happy little myths often
found between the ideal and reality..."
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LUSTY
LADY
"Hillary
Carlip is Queen of the Oddballs and author of
the fabulous new memoir... She also runs the
absolutely brilliant essay website Fresh Yarn..."
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BOOK
OF THE MOMENT
"The
book is funny and honest; which are the qualities
that make a memoir great. Carlip doesn't hold
back to save face. She tells her most embarassing
stories, and as a result, readers will come
to adore her in all her oddballness."
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JEN
AND ANDREW
"queen
of the oddballs: and other true life stories from
a life unaccording to plan by hillary carlip.
i
just finished this book. i think every woman i
know needs to read it, too. order it now. put
her on the bestseller list, and keep her there.
she has important lessons to teach us all. and
she's funny as hell." |
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KEPLER'S
BOOKS
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
"This book should come with a warning
label. Highly
addictive material contained inside: reported
attempts at reading in more than one sitting have
been met with complete failure. Hillary Carlip
has lived a life we all wished we could claim,
never has being so different seemed so unbelievably
cool. You will want to claim your inner oddball
and let it radiate the world around you!" |
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JEWISH
IRISHY
"I just got done reading Hillary Carlip's
memoir, 'Queen of the Oddballs. Hillary has done
just about everything you ever wished to do...
and when she got done doing all of that, she went
on the Gong Show... and when that was over, she
told Oprah where she could shove it... and then
she did something else, she COINED THE PHRASE
'GIRL POWER!' She coined a phrase! I highly suggest
you go preorder the book from Amazon. Hillary
rocks my pajamas. And
that was me, 'coining a phrase' 'Hillary rocks
my pajamas.'You heard it here first." |
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BROWN
UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE
STAFF RECOMMENDS
"From stalking Carol King as a teen,
to performing singing telegrams as a young adult,
to her reflections on relationships and family
tragedies, Hillary Carlip chronicles her life
with emotional maturity and an offbeat sense
of humor. Queen of the Oddballs is the perfect
way to describe this wonderfully dorky and creatively
eclectic new memoirist."
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SHOW
UP
"What
happens when you have a one-night stand with
an oddball? You give birth to the two funniest
writers in the world: Hillary Carlip and Tania
Katan! Please join Hillary and Tania as they
read from their amazingly funny, totally unpredictable,
and lovingly quirky memoirs: Queen of the
Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life
Unaccording to Plan & My One-Night
Stand With Cancer."
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