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Shyster & Shyster: Holy Taxation, Batman!
Lolla Brigida and Janet Shyster stumble into the Shyster & Shyster tax return preparation partnership. Accompanied by a hard-nosed female dwarf debt collector, a perpetual student intern with ADHD and a romantic interest who never gives up, the women take a humorous journey from hardly making it to losing it all to tax bracket madness.
To save their profits, Lolla and Janet turn the tax business into a church that mixes religious beliefs at will. Add a married Mother Superior, four child sold as tax deductions and an exorcism, and the women experience the miracle of true friendship and monetary success.
To save their profits, Lolla and Janet turn the tax business into a church that mixes religious beliefs at will. Add a married Mother Superior, four child sold as tax deductions and an exorcism, and the women experience the miracle of true friendship and monetary success.
300 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 2016
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Francine Zane
4 books20 followersFrancine Zane is a humor writer who lives and breathes in the great Midwest. She spends her days catering to the whims of the general public and her evenings cowering in a corner praying her cats do not eat her while she sleeps.
Francine spent her youth channeling the ever delightful personality of a beached whale. Now she shares her observations with whomever is too slow or stupid to run away.
Francine spent her youth channeling the ever delightful personality of a beached whale. Now she shares her observations with whomever is too slow or stupid to run away.
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June 14, 2016
Actually really funny!
If I had to blurb it, I'd say 'Rainbow Rowell (her adult fiction) meets Better Call Saul', a good mix of snark, sweetness, Midwestern sleaze, and some full stop shaggy-dog insanity. What starts as a mostly believable story of competition and corner-cutting in the tax world ramps up in some pretty silly ways, and Zane has a talent for creating characters that are funny and oddball but come across as human and relatable as well. Hard to do humor well in writing, Shyster & Shyster certainly succeeds.
If I had to blurb it, I'd say 'Rainbow Rowell (her adult fiction) meets Better Call Saul', a good mix of snark, sweetness, Midwestern sleaze, and some full stop shaggy-dog insanity. What starts as a mostly believable story of competition and corner-cutting in the tax world ramps up in some pretty silly ways, and Zane has a talent for creating characters that are funny and oddball but come across as human and relatable as well. Hard to do humor well in writing, Shyster & Shyster certainly succeeds.
August 1, 2016
The funniest book I have read. Two ladies take a tax preparing business and make it a non profit profit building enterprise, of course the end profit is for them. The characters run the gamut from the forbidden zone through little people, quasi nuns, orphans, escorts and the filthy rich. I can't wait to read another book by Francine Zane. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to laugh. I received this book from Goodreads for free.
June 21, 2016
Step away from the coffee.
Unless you really want to spray it everywhere as you read this hilariousness! Publisher's blurb gives you plot clues, but not much can prepare you for this snarkfest with undertones of gawdawful puns. It's a nice length, and you simply cannot go wrong with this read!
Thank you, LibraryThing Giveaways!
Unless you really want to spray it everywhere as you read this hilariousness! Publisher's blurb gives you plot clues, but not much can prepare you for this snarkfest with undertones of gawdawful puns. It's a nice length, and you simply cannot go wrong with this read!
Thank you, LibraryThing Giveaways!
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