Please Don't Grab My P#$$y
by Julia Young, Matt Harkins
This is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary.
I loved the concept of the book and some of the poems were cute and made me smile but most were duds. I think this could have been funnier. The illustrations were fine and the opening poem gave the book a big bang then nothing. The rest was just saying the same thing only duller. Still worth the read, just not as many giggles I was hoping for.

Thank you to Julia Young, Matt Harkins, Animal Media Group, Animal Media Group LLC, and NetGalley for this advanced copy of “Please Don't Grab My P#$$y: A Rhyming Presidential Guide” for an honest review.

While this piece if rather campy and filled with comic oil drawings, the book narrates through a list of things President Trump is encouraged to grab (such as a television remote, of a crayon, a golf club) rather than an inappropriate location on a woman’s body.

The poem, also, ends each page with alternate names for the female vagina, that, also, is not Trump’s usage of “pussy” from the release taped conversations of October 2016. While it’s timely and relevant to current goings on with the president, it felt like a very nose-thumbing way to go about making the point. I just expected a little more panache and intellect to go with a rebuttal to the level of what he’d done.

Meh. Just OK. Liked the concept, but the execution left me cold - didn't laugh or even crack a smile. Did like learning ridiculous euphemisms for "pussy" though!

I received a digital ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

This book had a fun premise and I liked the idea of combining political protest with art and poetry. However, it didn't manage to meet my expectations. The artwork was beautiful, but the poetry didn't quite work. A lot of the lines didn't quite scan, and some of the references to the author's personal life didn't really fit or make much sense. The book could make a fun gift for someone with different tastes or sense of humour to me though.

Through a number of oil paintings, the authors list a number of things people can grab other than you know, a female’s genitalia which as you can recall POTUS said was alright for people to grab. There are many suggestions of what to grab instead e.g. a joint in California, your new putter and a new ride on your private jet.

There are also many suggestions for what to call it other than the term used by Donald Trump. I have not read such a large collection of what to call a female’s privates since reading Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman. This is a short book that can be read in less than thirty minutes if you are looking for something to read. This book was meant to be funny and judging by the reviews on Goodreads it is, but it wasn’t for me. I found this to be an okay read, not awful but also not awesome. I feel like this had the potential to be so much better.

Though I certainly agree with the message in this book, the execution falls flat. The illustrations are rendered nicely and the poems have some okay rhymes. Some of the other rhymes are very bad - I mean, rhyming "unsatisfactory" and factory"? Come on now.

I wanted to like this more than I did. It's a solid effort, but there are more impressive humorous protest/poetry books out there in the world.

I was expecting more from this book. I was hoping for an extremely funny and /or witty story I would laugh out loud at. this was just ok.

I.enjoyed this book very much. It’s not often a book makes me laugh out loud but this one did. The illustrations are first-rate and the poetry kept my attention for sure. I just wish it was longer.

My thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Poetry that is angry and her message. Only thing I've issue with, "But please don’t grab my piss hole." Unless term p $$ y includes Urethra and no one informed me.

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I received this book in exchange for an honest review via NetGalley. This is a quick little picture book that explains all of the things that you can grab without grabbing a P#$$y. This was cute and quirky with a fun rhyme scheme. I enjoyed it for what it was.

This is from an advanced review copy for which I thank the publisher.

This was an amusing and very short book of poetry and paintings (which are indirectly tied to the poem) designed to teach certain presidents who are a disgusting stain on any civilized and self-respecting society, some lessons they badly need to learn, but are apparently unwilling to do so and/or incapable of doing so. There is something fundamentally wrong with a nation which will elect a boorish, sexist, racist, misogynist, outright lying person into public office, especially when he's three million votes shy of having won an actual majority in the election, but this passes for democracy these days.

While I did not feel the poetry was at its best, the book contains a bemusing variety of euphemisms for a woman's private parts some of which I had not heard before. I think my favorite is panty hamster now, replacing nappy dugout, which itself wasn't included in this collection, but I'm sure many readers could find one that was missing. I believe Mary Shelley's term of choice was 'pretty notch' but that was also, and I suppose unsurprisingly, missing from the collection.

That said, this was a worthwhile effort because I support anyone who does something rather than nothing, even if they don't have the courage to put 'pussy' on the cover (although that may be a Publisher Advisory), which is why I recommend this.

A little book of quick poems telling Donald Trump what could be grabbed instead of the lady parts. Some of the poems I found laugh out loud funny, while others were meh. The illustrations were great and a great addition to the book. I found I laughed harder when I saw the corresponding illustrations. If you have a little sick humor in you, if you don’t care for Donald Trump and his vulgar way of talking about women, or you just want to learn some new words for lady parts, then this book is meant for your coffee table.

Many thanks to Animal Media Group and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for review.

I am reviewing this book as an ARC without compensation.

Seriously hilarious! I laughed tears. The graphics are great and go well with the jokes.

A cute little "poetry" book about Donald Trump and all the other things he could grab instead of a woman's lady bits.
Fantastic artwork.

(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

Through campy pop culture rhymes and beautiful oil paintings, the narrator of our book guides you though a list of things you CAN grab while offering more poetic ways to refer to a woman’s genitalia than the word “pussy” that Trump so vulgarly used. As the narrator goes on, she lets you know more about her relatives (a reclusive aunt with a lazy eye) and her interests (Justin Bieber’s Instagram) while never losing sight of her mission to make the President as uncomfortable as possible. We think that the President, not to mention men in Hollywood, Wall Street, the news media and beyond, can benefit from reading our book. No matter who you are, or how dumb you are, you’ll be able to understand this book’s simple message: Hands off my pussy!

Well, the art was good. The images that went with the supposedly funny poems were far better than the poems themselves.

The blurb says that the authors are comedians...I am not sure who finds them funny. The poems are juvenile and childish, the rhymes are so bad you can't help rolling your eyes, and there is an overwhelming feeling of "bandwagon-jumping" when it comes to attacking Trump.

And, really, once you have read it, what are you going to do with it afterwards? Hardly going to read it twice...


Paul
ARH

Smart, funny, sad, poignant, witty. It's so sad that in 2018 this is where we are and this is the best we can do, which makes a book like this necessary.

I didn’t really find this book funny. Some parts were ok but the rest I really didn’t enjoy. It will appeal to some; just sadly I’m not one of them.

This is a delightful, raunchy, rhyming warning to the President (yes, that president) to never grab the author’s, or any female’s, lady parts. The poetry is funny and clever, and the illustrations are truly exceptional. (Who knew there were so many different names to those lady parts?! )

This book would make a great gift for any friend who marched, or wanted to march, in last year’s Women’s March, and who wore, or wanted to wear, a pink pussy hat. As British sitcom icon Mrs. Slocum would say (often referring to her stay-at-home pussy), “I am unanimous in that!”

Quick read. Good for a laugh and the drawings/pictures that accompany each poem is spot on. This is a good book when you need a pick me up. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book.

I'm not sure exactly what I expected here. The pictures are great. The message is clear. But I guess I'm just not a fan of euphemisms for vaginas, which is all this really ended up as.