The Grrl Genius Guide to Life
   Cathryn Michon
  2001 Cliff Street Books/HarperCollins
    ISBN: 006019698X


This 12-Step Program on How to Become a Grrl Genius According to Me! is from another time of frivolous innocence where “go-get'em!” is the rallying whoop & where women wear their egos like tiaras -- lighting the way with humor & a touch of reality.

Dubbed the “Lilith Fair of Comedy” by the Hollywood Reporter & playing to sold-out audiences, the Grrl Genius Club features some of today's top comediennes including Janeane Garofalo, Ellen Degeneres, Margaret Cho & Kathy Griffin.

Cathryn Michon, the mistressmind of the whole Grrl Genius phenomenon & an award-winning stand-up comic, actress & writer, takes us through her dozen steps, showing how to become a true Grrl Genius. Spelling notwithstanding!

Each step is illustrated with laugh-out loud stories, strange drawings, quizzes & profiles of stellar Grrl Geniuses from our illustrious past. Each Step is also packed with ludicrously irrefutable logical formulas. They leave you laughing & nodding your head for their simplicity & their scope! Many a truth is spoken in jest!

With an appendix in which such advice as: Where to Send Complaints About This Book; Cathryn's Grrl Genius Low-fat Technicolor® Tater Salad; Contact Information on How to Become a Part of the Grrl Genius Movement Worldwide & How the Front and Back Jacket Photos Were Done, and Why No Real Person Ever Looks As Good As in a Really Expensive Professional Photograph is given, the reader is lured into a women's world of brightly colored comedy.

The Grrl Genius Guide to Life is a fluent feast of fast, funny, female philosophies which left me rather relaxed, once I came back up for air!

Also by Cathryn Michon with the assist of Pamela Norris: Jane Austen's Little Advice Book.

If you want to see how a Grrl Genius chats off-the-cuff catch my Interview with author Cathryn Michon.
(10/07/01)

Rebecca