{"id":29,"date":"2009-07-08T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:31:39","slug":"i_told_you_so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/i_told_you_so\/","title":{"rendered":"I Told You So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/rts\/glbtrt\/news\/newsletters\/summer09.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mg&#8230;rs\/summer09.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clinton, Kate. <em>I Told You So.<\/em> Boston: Beacon Press, 2009. hardcover. 189p. $22.00. ISBN: 9780807044421.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never had the opportunity to enjoy <strong>Kate Clinton<\/strong>&#8216;s brand of smart, in-your-face lesbian feminist humor this book provides a taste of what you&#8217;ve been missing. Over 80 short chapters (from collected columns and routines) are arranged chronologically by topics (i.e., Bawdy Politics, Faith-Based Comedy).<\/p>\n<p>Kate examines the topics of our lives, usually political, always hilarious, often bittersweet. Until <strong>Rachel Maddow<\/strong> hit the scene, Kate was about the smartest lesbian comic out there; only now does she have some competition.<\/p>\n<p>This is a volume that is best enjoyed being read aloud to friends and lovers (or, lover, if you&#8217;re that way).<\/p>\n<p>So have you heard the one that goes: &#8220;Praying should be like doing your Kegel exercises: no one needs to know you are doing it and you achieve lovely results.&#8221; Put this in your collection, and thank you Kate, for helping to get us through the dark times with humor and heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by <strong>Morgan Gwenwald<\/strong><br \/>\nSUNY New Paltz<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mg&#8230;rs\/summer09.pdf Clinton, Kate. I Told You So. Boston: Beacon Press, 2009. hardcover. 189p. $22.00. ISBN: 9780807044421. If you&#8217;ve never had the opportunity to enjoy Kate Clinton&#8216;s brand of smart, in-your-face lesbian feminist humor this book provides a taste of what you&#8217;ve been missing. Over 80 short chapters (from collected columns and routines) are arranged chronologically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}