A Knack for Embarrassment

Name: A Knack for Embarrassment
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: James D. Beers
ISBN: 9781662238758

Author: James D. Beers

Narrator: Chris Brinkley

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: James D. Beers

Published: 02/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Children's Fiction, Children's Humor, Young Adult Fiction

Synopsis

Have you ever wondered why, when you throw a flat rock, it never flies straight...and accidentally hits your sibling in a vital organ? Have you ever survived a night in a den of 40 snorers intent on rearranging your circadian rhythm...forever? Did you ever blow up cuisine in the microwave and then try and hide it from your clairvoyant mother...by sucking it up in her vacuum cleaner?If so, then these stories are right up your alley!Follow the author and his family and friends in their rollicking adventures sledding down the dreaded Sleddin' Road, riding in a Volkswagen Rabbit that expels more exhaust than a convention of chain smokers, and practicing "Premeditated Bear Situation Thinking" while out in the woods. Just try not to laugh as you hear about the cutthroat cookie-decorating contest of Christmas 2007 or as the author guinea-pigs his younger brother in a game of spit wads. Reminiscent of Patrick F. McManus yarns and Erma Bombeck columns, these stories are sure to get you laughing.Born in Idaho, raised on ice cream, and schooled in calamity and disaster, author James D. Beers tells the "somewhat true" tales of his zany life from a unique and humorous perspective in A Knack for Embarrassment, his first collection of short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ammon on January 02, 2019

This review is for the audiobook version of A Knack for Embarrassment by James D. Beers and narrated by Chris Brinkley. All the tales in this brief, fiction anthology were amusing and very relatable. I would hazard a guess that Mr. Beers and I had very similar experiences growing up and came from ver......more

Goodreads review by Paula on May 08, 2019

This book is a great nostalgic grouping of short stories looking back over all the funny, embarrassing and awkward experiences many of us have lived through. It's clean enough the whole family can listen. This book doesn't have to be read from front to back as many of the stories are individual enou......more

Goodreads review by Mary on April 16, 2020

Author James Beers pokes a little fun at himself recounting humorous, self-deprecating stories from throughout his life. These are all family-friendly yarns, some even in a church setting. There's an old-fashioned feel to these tales, and that nostalgic mood is furthered by the cover drawing, which......more

Goodreads review by Suzan on January 14, 2019

I found Chris Brinkley to do a great job of narrating this audiobook. I kept thinking I am so glad I didn't grow up with a crazy family like this. Having grown up without brothers might have been a good thing. Maybe because I didn't live through things like this is why I didn't find it fall on the f......more

Goodreads review by Deedra on January 30, 2019

Audible:This guy lived a lot like we did,except his Rabbits were Bugs at our house.Some pretty funny stuff! Chris Brinkley was a fine narrator.I was given this book by the narrator,author or publisher free for an honest review.......more