What Could Go Wrong? Lessons From Living on the Edge

by: Yvonne Linton

Published by: Langdon Street Press

Reviewed by Elizabeth Bright

The author got my attention in her first chapter with this subhead: Proud to be Average–Avoiding the Super Woman Syndrome.

Hard to believe, but all the stories in her book are TRUE! How I loved living her zany life vicariously. Some names were changed to protect the innocent.

Each chapter has many small stories in it, and their titles tell you that author Yvonne Linton is most amusing–and that this is going to be a fun read.

Linton writes, “There are many paths to success. Any day can be salvaged…and we can still find lots to delight in. Ah, an optimistic humor writer.

I loved her Erma Bombeck attention to detail about everyday craziness, and how she makes the mundane funny, and it plays out on every page. Her careful selection of words, like “the kitchen of life…where we balance our plates (and other kitchen references) made the read extra entertaining.

In What Could Go Wrong? we sit in Yvonne’s classroom as she practices flexibility as a substitute elementary teacher. We float on her sailboard as we see emergency vehicles on shore–and someone shouting HER name. We’re with her on her business trips while she’s on the phone, in the car or at meetings. We find ourselves shouting, “Yvonne, don’t do that!” But she does.

With each “unique” story that IS Yvonne’s life, we no longer have to wonder, “what could go wrong”–it already has. Many of us have stories like hers, but we don’t write them down, even going so far as telling family or friends. We’re the lucky ones because she dared to share them.

Husband Sam is an engineer, and to my way of thinking, an engineer and a quirky woman who has an oddball sense of observation must make for a very interesting household. I’d love to be a bug on the wall…wonder who their two boys take after?

I’ve missed having someone to read who makes me laugh at good, clean fun and her every-day family craziness as a mom, teacher, friend, wife, and I almost forgot, a twin.

Yvonne Linton, please keep writing, and I’ll keep enjoying it.

Armchair Interviews agrees.

Author’s Web site: http://www.YvonneLinton.com