Great Book | She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana

Tell Us More, Zippy! | She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana | Haven Kimmel

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	• She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana Haven Kimmel Free Press, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 56 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Read

I'm so glad Kimmel wrote this book. After reading ZIPPY I wondered what became of Kimmel's mother. For right or wrong, I always think back to both ZIPPY and SHE GOT UP OFF THE COUCH when reading Haven Kimmel's novels; I always think I see parts of her characters (and certainly her landscapes) in the nonfiction books.

Great Book

Great book following the adventures of Zippy (author's first book and memoir). My husband and I were blown away by the author's ability to reflect her upbringing (and oftentimes troubled upbringing) in a humorous style of writing that borders on a genius for storytelling. I've sent Zippy to family members and lent it to others. Great book for everyone to read.

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Tell Us More, Zippy!

I read this book immediately after finishing A Girl Named Zippy, and was pleased to find it has the same humor and draw as it's prequel. While Zippy is told entirely in a child's voice, there are numerous parts where Kimmel ventures into memories told from an adults perspective - she tells us about things as she interprets them now, illustrating that she is skillful in eloquence as well as wit and humor. I hated to reach the end of both books! Both made me wish I remembered more from my own childhood, and made me think about what my kids will remember from theirs.

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Want More Zippy?

I had read Zippy, and just wanted more, so I bought this book and I loved it, too. I do have to say it's not AS hilarious; there are parts that are just sad, exposing the problems of the family, which weren't as obvious through the eyes of the younger Zippy.

Still, I loved it and want to read more, but there's no more. :-(

Book group loved it

"She Got Up Off The Couch" was our most recent book group selection. A most lively discussion that marveled at the resilience of Zippy and especially her Mom. The ending left us wondering what's next.... It seemed that a lot was said by what was left unsaid - specifically about her Dad.

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After twenty years of burrowing into the corner of the family couch, eating junk food, and reading science fiction, Indiana mother Delonda Jarvis did something that shocked her family: she went to college. Or, as her younger daughter, Haven Kimmel, writes, she "stood up, brushed away the pork rind crumbs, and escaped by the skin of her teeth."

Despite having no money, no car, and a resentful husband, Delonda managed to obtain a master's degree in English. The former teenage bride also dropped one hundred pounds, learned how to drive, and became a breadwinner. But as she reclaimed herself, her marriage disintegrated.

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