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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana (Zippy #2)

Haven Kimmel

Paperback | Pages: 313 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 9345 Users | 1042 Reviews

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Original Title:	She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
ISBN:	074328500X (ISBN13: 9780743285001)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Zippy #2
Setting:	Mooreland, Indiana(United States) Indiana(United States)

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In this sequel to the top-selling A Girl Named Zippy, the woman rising heroically from the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda. After years of languorous existence, this oversized couch potato emerged from the den to pursue a higher education. Delonda was well read but in other ways seemed ill suited for college: This middle-aged, 260-pound coed had a husband who disapproved of the entire venture, no driver's license, and almost no money. Like its predecessor, She Got Up Off the Couch holds our attention with its sympathetic rendering of idiosyncratic family characters. Hilarious; heartbreaking; ultimately empowering.

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Title	:	She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana (Zippy #2)
Author	:	Haven Kimmel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 313 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2007 by Free Press (first published December 1st 2005)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Humor. Biography. Biography Memoir. Family

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his girl knows how to write. I read A Girl Named Zippy last year for book club and really liked it. This was the sequel. This is not a story that goes from one period of time and flows to the next. Its several chapters about different people and different things that happened in Zippy. It is not really an extraordinary life, but the way she tells it is. Its funny and very witty. I find myself thinking about what life was like for me when I was her age. She had a lot of friends and seemed happy

I just love Zippy and love her stories. This book is tinged with sadness - I cried several times because I am a weepy one these days. I often complain about memoirs that are too insular, too self-absorbed. Why don't I level that accusation at Haven Kimmel's two memoirs? Of A Girl Named Zippy I wrote:there was no self-reflexive narration here, no self-conscious reflection on the act of memoir-writing, no nods or winks or notes to the reader about the author's awareness of crafting a written

Wonderful, funny, and heart breaking. Read a Girl Named Zippy first to truly enjoy this book.

For the first third of the book, I wasn't sure what I was reading. Really, this is a memoir? The title character was barely present, but those early chapters that appeared to be tenuously related essays were hilarious. Was I reading Erma Bombeck or what? Then things started to come together. Delonda Jarvis (mother of the author and nearly invisible in the first part of the book), did indeed get up off the couch, go to college where she performed stunningly well, lose 120 pounds, buy a decrepit

I didn't much care for this book. other people did.

I'm kind of bereft because there's no more Zippy to be had.At first I was not so sure about She Got Up Off the Couch. It seemed like outtakes from the first book, and the aw shucks introduction justifying a sequel worried me. ("I didn't expect much from that little book. I was an remain surprised that some people bought and liked it." C'mon!) She Got Up does take a couple chapters to get going, as if you can feel Kimmel getting back on the bike and finding the pedals. But once she does...like

I read Kimmel's first memoir, A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana during one of my annual girls' trips to Mexico a couple years back. While taking in the sun, tasty margaritas and enjoying the simple things, I was enamored with this quirky small-town girl and her cleverly down-home way with words. She made childhood in a town of just 300 (THAT'S small!) a bit romantic. Living where everyone knows your name (forget that they all know your business, too) and where life seems