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Please Don't Eat the Daisies par Jean Kerr
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (original 1953; édition 2019)

par Jean Kerr (Auteur)

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The "refreshing . . . laugh-out-loud" #1 New York Times bestseller about life in the suburbs that was adapted into a classic film comedy (Kirkus Reviews).   One day, Tony Award-winning playwright Jean Kerr packed up her four kids (and husband, Walter, one of Broadway's sharpest critics), and left New York City. They moved to a faraway part of the world that promised a grassy utopia where daisies grew wild and homes were described as neo-gingerbread. In this collection of "wryly observant" essays, Kerr chronicles her new life in this strange land called Larchmont (TheWashington Post).   It sounds like bliss--no more cramped apartments and nightmarish after-theater cocktail parties where the martinis were never dry enough. Now she has her very own washer/dryer, a garden, choice seats at the hottest new third-grade school plays (low overhead but they'll never recoup their losses), and a fresh new kind of lunacy.   In Please Don't Eat the Daisies "Jean Kerr cooks with laughing gas" as she explores the everyday absurdities, anxieties, and joys of marriage, family, friends, home decorating, and maintaining a career--but this time with a garage! (Time).… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Auteurs:Jean Kerr (Auteur)
Info:Open Road Media (2019), Edition: Reprint, 102 pages
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies par Jean Kerr (1953)

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    With Love from Karen par Marie Killilea (infiniteletters)
    infiniteletters: Marie Killilea lived next door to Jean Kerr for a number of years, and the respective anecdotes about eachother are amusing.
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    Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : a correspondence par Ellen Terry (ashleylauren)
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Jean Kerr, awriter of short comic essays about the ups and downs of suburban america. This was a very successful collection which was translated into a fairly popular film. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Apr 12, 2024 |
I don't know how this book has so many positive reviews. I was glad when it was over. I felt it was dated ( )
  KyleneJones | Apr 25, 2022 |
3.5 Stars

In my Doris Day phase I watched the film "based" on this book and was not amused. But Goodreads recommended the book to me because of some other humorous tales I liked so I found an ebook and settled down.

As much as I like Day and David Niven in general, I can only say that this film did the book and them a disservice. While the film seems to center on family drama and, in particular, Niven's character, the book focuses completely on the wife and, thankfully, bears little resemblance to the film. It is funny, especially if you've ever had young brothers.* Her tone is snappy, brilliant, and she obviously enjoys both writing and being a mother (sometimes).

Also, loved the chapter on diets. But points removed for the two "fantasy" chapters in the middle. Skip them (Don Brown's Body and the following one).

*my mind, at one point, instantly remembered a certain photo of my young brother sitting amidst a couple of pounds of flour in the living room floor. ( )
  OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |
This collection of humorous pieces, mostly revolving around the author's family, led to a family TV comedy that I have vague recollections of. The author's style reminds me of nobody so much as the late Erma Bombeck (who may well have read and been inspired by this book), but with a few exceptions, Jean Kerr's humor is better-written, with a nice light satirical touch and a nice sense of pace. The exceptions are the few pieces about her experiences as a playwright; they just didn't do it for me. But the family pieces are giggly gold. The title comes from her lamentation about not having the imagination to give her three young boys precise enough instructions about what acts of mischief not to commit. ( )
  burnit99 | Jun 27, 2014 |
Was one of those random books in our house as a kid, probably a hand-me-down from my grandmother, and though I thought several of the stories were funny then, the older I get and the more children I have, the more hilarious they are. ( )
  fefferbooks | May 12, 2014 |
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The "refreshing . . . laugh-out-loud" #1 New York Times bestseller about life in the suburbs that was adapted into a classic film comedy (Kirkus Reviews).   One day, Tony Award-winning playwright Jean Kerr packed up her four kids (and husband, Walter, one of Broadway's sharpest critics), and left New York City. They moved to a faraway part of the world that promised a grassy utopia where daisies grew wild and homes were described as neo-gingerbread. In this collection of "wryly observant" essays, Kerr chronicles her new life in this strange land called Larchmont (TheWashington Post).   It sounds like bliss--no more cramped apartments and nightmarish after-theater cocktail parties where the martinis were never dry enough. Now she has her very own washer/dryer, a garden, choice seats at the hottest new third-grade school plays (low overhead but they'll never recoup their losses), and a fresh new kind of lunacy.   In Please Don't Eat the Daisies "Jean Kerr cooks with laughing gas" as she explores the everyday absurdities, anxieties, and joys of marriage, family, friends, home decorating, and maintaining a career--but this time with a garage! (Time).

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