Faking It 
by Portia MacIntosh

 

 

My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

 

Then we have Arthur, who is the local know-it-all, who keeps the info up to date. He’s probably in his early seventies, and has lived here all his life. He holds his non-smartphone as if it’s a dog turd – a dog turd that might have a bomb in it, perhaps, because he eyeballs it so suspiciously.

 

To be honest, I hated being on the bus with the kids; it was like being trapped inside a headache.

 

I guess I’ll just have to try talking to her again – unless you’re allowed to return kids to the hospital or something. Can you return the ones that turn out horrible?

 

‘I’m going to embarrass her so hard she’ll spend the next year in her room trying to work out how to change her identity,’ I reply. ‘Millie has been walking all over Emma for too long. I’m going to go in there and – maybe I’ll grab a drink? Maybe I’ll get up on a table and dance?’

 

What do I say? ‘I’m Edward’s mum,’ I lie. ‘He forgot his anti-diarrhoea medication. I thought I’d better bring it.’ ‘You’re not my mum,’ he says angrily before turning to his lady friend. ‘She’s not my mum.’

 

Marco’s body tells me that he’s no stranger to the gym. My body tells people that the only working out I do is what my pizza is going to cost me with my ‘20 percent off’ code.

My Review:

 

I giggle-snorted my way through this endearingly witty and crisply written delight and am already eager for more of the same. This was good fun and packed with wry and wily humor, touching insights, and highly amusing observations and character descriptions. Portia MacIntosh is the bombdiggity and a recent discovery for me. I want to amass all her divinely snarkalicious and clever arrangements of words.