{"title":"Paula Poundstone","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"there-s-nothing-in-this-book-that-i-meant-to-say-book-paula-poundstone-9780307382283","title":"There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say","description":"Part memoir, part monologue, with a dash of startling honesty, \u003ci\u003eThere's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say\u003c\/i\u003e features biographies of legendary historical figures from which Paula Poundstone can't help digressing to tell her own story. Mining gold from the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and Beethoven, among others, the eccentric and utterly inimitable mind of Paula Poundstone dissects, observes, and comments on the successes and failures of her own life with surprising candor and spot-on comedic timing in this unique laugh-out-loud book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you like Paula Poundstone's ironic and blindingly intelligent humor, you'll love this wryly observant, funny, and touching book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaula Poundstone on . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe sources of her self-esteem: A couple of years ago I was reunited with a guy I knew in the fifth grade. He said, All the other fifth-grade guys liked the pretty girls, but I liked you. It's hard to know if a guy is sincere when he lays it on that thick. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe battle between fatigue and informed citizenship: I play a videotape of \u003ci\u003eThe NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\u003c\/i\u003e every night, but sometimes I only get as far as the theme song (da da-da-da da-ah) before I fall asleep. Sometimes as soon as Margaret Warner says whether or not Jim Lehrer is on vacation I drift right off. Somehow just knowing he's well comforts me. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe occult: I need to know exactly what day I'm gonna die so that I don't bother putting away leftovers the night before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTV's misplaced priorities: Someday in the midst of the State of the Union address they'll break in with, We interrupt this program to bring you a little clip from Bewitched. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTravel: In London I went to the queen's house. I went as a tourist--she didn't invite me so she could pick my brain: What do you think of my face on the pound? Too serious? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAir-conditioning in Florida: If it were as cold outside in the winter as they make it inside in the summer, they'd put the heat on. It makes no sense. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe scandal: The judge said I was the best probationer he ever had. Talk about proud. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a foreword by Mary Tyler Moore \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49651477086481,"sku":"GOR010303155","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50285370966289,"sku":"GOR009619733","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346905141521,"sku":"CIN0307382281A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50604175622417,"sku":"CIN0307382281G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000760795409,"sku":"NIN9780307382283","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51689301442833,"sku":"CIN0307382281VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52122703364369,"sku":"NLS9780307382283","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307382281.jpg?v=1751164804"},{"product_id":"there-s-nothing-in-this-book-that-i-meant-to-say-cd-9781598870718","title":"There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say","description":"Part memoir, part monologue, with a dash of startling honesty, \u003ci\u003eThere's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say\u003c\/i\u003e features biographies of legendary historical figures from which Paula Poundstone can't help digressing to tell her own story. Mining gold from the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and Beethoven, among others, the eccentric and utterly inimitable mind of Paula Poundstone dissects, observes, and comments on the successes and failures of her own life with surprising candor and spot-on comedic timing in this unique laugh-out-loud book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you like Paula Poundstone's ironic and blindingly intelligent humor, you'll love this wryly observant, funny, and touching book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaula Poundstone on . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe sources of her self-esteem: A couple of years ago I was reunited with a guy I knew in the fifth grade. He said, All the other fifth-grade guys liked the pretty girls, but I liked you. It's hard to know if a guy is sincere when he lays it on that thick. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe battle between fatigue and informed citizenship: I play a videotape of \u003ci\u003eThe NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\u003c\/i\u003e every night, but sometimes I only get as far as the theme song (da da-da-da da-ah) before I fall asleep. Sometimes as soon as Margaret Warner says whether or not Jim Lehrer is on vacation I drift right off. Somehow just knowing he's well comforts me. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe occult: I need to know exactly what day I'm gonna die so that I don't bother putting away leftovers the night before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTV's misplaced priorities: Someday in the midst of the State of the Union address they'll break in with, We interrupt this program to bring you a little clip from Bewitched. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTravel: In London I went to the queen's house. I went as a tourist--she didn't invite me so she could pick my brain: What do you think of my face on the pound? Too serious? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAir-conditioning in Florida: If it were as cold outside in the winter as they make it inside in the summer, they'd put the heat on. It makes no sense. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe scandal: The judge said I was the best probationer he ever had. Talk about proud. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a foreword by Mary Tyler Moore \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49853068083473,"sku":"CIN1598870718VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1598870718.jpg?v=1751120144"},{"product_id":"the-totally-unscientific-study-of-the-search-for-human-happiness-cd-9781681684031","title":"The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness","description":"\u003cb\u003eA remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat. --Lily Tomlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known. --Peter Sagal, host of \u003ci\u003eWait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me \u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Vice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Is there a secret to happiness? asks comedian Paula Poundstone. I don't know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after? In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights--the pursuit of happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice ). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness \u003c\/i\u003eis both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50068004536593,"sku":"CIN1681684039VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50389726888209,"sku":"CIN1681684039G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1681684039.jpg?v=1751377062"},{"product_id":"totally-unscientific-study-of-the-search-for-human-happiness-book-paula-poundstone-9781616208066","title":"The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness","description":"“A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat.”  —Lily Tomlin “Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known.” —Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice “Is there a secret to happiness?” asks comedian Paula Poundstone. \"I don’t know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could  it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?” In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights—the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice!). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care.  The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life. The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows. Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, “Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50140295135505,"sku":"CIN1616208066G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039569805585,"sku":"NIN9781616208066","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51424251642129,"sku":"CIN1616208066VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52586461462801,"sku":"NLS9781616208066","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1616208066.jpg?v=1751276992"},{"product_id":"totally-unscientific-study-of-the-search-for-human-happiness-the-book-paula-poundstone-9781616204167","title":"Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eA remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat. --Lily Tomlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known. --Peter Sagal, host of \u003ci\u003eWait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me \u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Vice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Is there a secret to happiness? asks comedian Paula Poundstone. I don't know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after? In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights--the pursuit of happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice ). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness \u003c\/i\u003eis both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50321518723345,"sku":"CIN1616204168VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395700035857,"sku":"CIN1616204168G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1616204168.jpg?v=1751375416"},{"product_id":"there-s-nothing-in-this-book-that-i-meant-to-say-book-paula-poundstone-9780609603161","title":"There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say","description":"Part memoir, part monologue, with a dash of startling honesty, \u003ci\u003eThere's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say\u003c\/i\u003e features biographies of legendary historical figures from which Paula Poundstone can't help digressing to tell her own story. Mining gold from the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and Beethoven, among others, the eccentric and utterly inimitable mind of Paula Poundstone dissects, observes, and comments on the successes and failures of her own life with surprising candor and spot-on comedic timing in this unique laugh-out-loud book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you like Paula Poundstone's ironic and blindingly intelligent humor, you'll love this wryly observant, funny, and touching book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaula Poundstone on . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe sources of her self-esteem: A couple of years ago I was reunited with a guy I knew in the fifth grade. He said, All the other fifth-grade guys liked the pretty girls, but I liked you. It's hard to know if a guy is sincere when he lays it on that thick. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe battle between fatigue and informed citizenship: I play a videotape of \u003ci\u003eThe NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\u003c\/i\u003e every night, but sometimes I only get as far as the theme song (da da-da-da da-ah) before I fall asleep. Sometimes as soon as Margaret Warner says whether or not Jim Lehrer is on vacation I drift right off. Somehow just knowing he's well comforts me. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe occult: I need to know exactly what day I'm gonna die so that I don't bother putting away leftovers the night before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTV's misplaced priorities: Someday in the midst of the State of the Union address they'll break in with, We interrupt this program to bring you a little clip from Bewitched. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTravel: In London I went to the queen's house. I went as a tourist--she didn't invite me so she could pick my brain: What do you think of my face on the pound? Too serious? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAir-conditioning in Florida: If it were as cold outside in the winter as they make it inside in the summer, they'd put the heat on. It makes no sense. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe scandal: The judge said I was the best probationer he ever had. Talk about proud. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a foreword by Mary Tyler Moore \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50356821950737,"sku":"CIN0609603167G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50358281142545,"sku":"CIN0609603167VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0609603167.jpg?v=1751199227"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-paula-poundstone.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}