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Barbara Holland

Born

in Washington, D.C., The United States

April 05, 1933

Died

September 07, 2010

Genre

Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Children's Books

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Barbara Murray Holland was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 2,311 ratings · 381 reviews · 56 distinct works • Similar authors

	Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences 3.73 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades 3.64 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When All the World Was Young: A Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk 3.63 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Joy of Drinking 3.74 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of the Cat 3.62 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: Rediscovering Life in an American Village 3.75 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hail to the Chiefs: Presidential Mischief, Morals, and Malarkey from George W. to George W 3.80 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wasn't the Grass Greener?: Thirty-three Reasons Why Life Isn't as Good as It Used to Be 3.65 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prisoners at the Kitchen Table 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1979	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!”
― Barbara Holland

tags: cat, cat-language, cats, language

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“A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ”
― Barbara Holland

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“Drink, the social glue of the human race. Probably in the beginning we could explain ourselves to our close family members with grunts, muttered syllables, gestures, slaps, and punches. Then when the neighbors started dropping in to help harvest, stomp, stir, and drink the bounty of the land, after we'd softened our natural suspicious hostility with a few stiff ones, we had to think up some more nuanced communications, like words. From there it was a short step to grammar, civil law, religion, history, and "The Whiffenpoof Song.”
― Barbara Holland, The Joy of Drinking

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