I’m in the middle of reading a book (or should I say comic?) by Maitena Burundarena called ‘Women On The Edge 1’. Maitena is a famous Latin-American cartoonist (was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina). You can’t help but laughing -at least smile- when you enjoy this book. Divided into several chapters, this book has one page of cartoon for each ‘issue’. Dedicated to all kind of woman (single, married, mom, teenager, etc), I found some similarities to my own’s. For example, under the issue of ‘Six things that upset a women’: being fat, not wearing the right clothes, being broke, being without cell phone restriction, smelling of onions, and when your ex hooks up with a goddess. Don’t we all ladies feel these at least once a week?
‘Eight things women do when they’re depressed’ according to Maitena are shop for clothes (how true!), get their hair styled, look in the mirror, sleep like a log eat like a pig (works for me the best!), call their friends, listen to very sad music, and ask themselves impossible questions. Personally, I would change the last one with ‘smoking while crying’.
Hilarious book with great cartoon for all women who are not necessarily have to be on the edge to read this.
can’t wait until the book arrived in Indo. hiks hiks…..
Will look for it @ library. Thx, Diny.
Rujak kebetulan nggak sempat ktemu di depan rumah. 😀
Wish you are one of my neighbour so I can just borrow it from you as soon as you finish reading it. 🙂
Btw .. thanks for the info, will look for it. 🙂
@melly and hany: you girls will like this one. even though the writer has a different cultural background with us, she definitely nailed a lot of good points!
@Tanti: Kembali kasih… salam kenal juga 🙂
Im from Bs As Argentina and of course I know Maitena and her books. I was looking for some of her drawings and I got into this site. Its amazing to see that her work reached other countries and that you agree with her, with us. Its crazy how no matter where we are, women all over the world are similar, we have the same fears, we ask the same questions and we like the same thinks.
Well, it was nice to visit this site ….
Adios!!
Luly
Luly, thanks for stopping by. I found this book at our local library. Just to surprise you even more, our town is wayyyyy smaller than Buenos Aires (only 50,000 pop) yet I found this book! I guess women all over the world are pretty much have a lot in common after all 🙂