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Jen Mann

Jen Mann is the hilarious New York Times best selling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges as well as several anthologies and short collections. Her books are inspired by her immensely popular blog People I Want to Punch in the Throat. Jen lives in Kansas with the Hubs and her two children, Gomer and Adolpha - no, those aren't their real names, their real names are actually worse. Jen spends her free time crafting and volunteering with the PTO. Seriously.

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Jen Mann's Books

People I Want to Punch in the Throat: True(ish) Tales of an Overachieving Underachiever - Jen Mann

Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Yuletide Yahoos, Ho-Ho-Humblebraggers, and Other Seasonal Scourges - Jen Mann

I Still Just Want to Pee Alone - Jen Man...

My Lame Life: Queen of the Misfits - Jen...

People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges - Jen Mann, Rene Chambliss

Just A FEW People I Want to Punch in the...

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Portable Magic rated it

7 years ago

text Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat ★★☆☆☆

Middle class suburban mommy humor. I’m not the target audience. Or, according to the author’s intro, I must not have a sense of humor if I didn’t find her book hilarious. Audiobook, borrowed from my public library via Overdrive. Read by the author, which was probably a mistake. It might have benef...

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Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews rated it

10 years ago

text People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann

I received a free kindle copy of People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann, published by Ballantine Books from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. I gave it five stars. This book has just enough snarky comments woven throughout to give it a high rating. I think that at some point we've...

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Transition Reads rated it

10 years ago

text People I Want to Punch in the Throat: True(ish) Tales of an Overachieving Underachiever

I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy this book out of my need to read something different and a horrible case of reader's block. (Is that a thing? I think it should be.) It turns out that I made the perfect choice! This book is downright hilarious and a super quick read. It's easy to get lost...

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KissinBlueKaren rated it

10 years ago

text People I Want to Punch in the Throat: True(ish) Tales of an Overachieving Underachiever

Let me start by telling you what I liked about this book. I liked that the author was really honest. She is not cool, or sexy, or skinny, or domesticated, or organized. She doesn’t gloss over her imperfections, she points them out and then we can laugh right along with her about how sad it is. She a...

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No More Booklikes, BYE rated it

11 years ago

text Some Serious Laughs between these Covers

3.5 stars. I loved parts, liked others and felt a little "meh" here and there. Hey, it was all written in jest some hit the mark with me some went a little off center. The beginning of the book had me giggling loud enough to wake my poor dog. Her job and coworkers, the party ! The story of her and h...

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