A Mouthful of Breath Mints and No One to Kiss

I love her! She is the average american single woman,(Well not anymore with her marriage to Irving coming up). This book has strips from the early 80's (Which seeing I was umm 2, I didn't read them yet). It's interesting to take a look back and see how Cathy has evolved to keep up with the times. My favorite Cathy book is "I'd Scream, except I look so fabulous", which has more of the modern day Cathy, but it's great to look back at where she has been, to see where I'll be going in a few years LOL..

This book takes place in my favorite section of all the Cathy strips. It's the 1980s. Cathy is a business superwoman with her insecure, overweight, obsessive and still single self firmly planted in her own insane universe. (This is before she bought a dog, and while Andrea was still ranting against the male gender in general. Charlene is nebulous)Cathy's colorful existance is marred by various problems: Irving gets laid off and moves in with her. Fourteen old boyfriends congregate in her living room. She goes on multiple biz trips--and ends up roped into giving speeches. Charlene gets engaged. Cathy dates a guy at the office--with embarrassing consequences. She also dates a health nut whose sole ambition to to perfect his pecs. Cathy confronts the pouffy taffeta dress, and makes the mistake of singing "Let's Get Physical" in an elevator full of men.Cathy Guisewite's excellent insight into the single woman's mind is sharp as it's ever been in this vbook, with her drawing skills cute and just cartoony-enough. Cathy is funny, bewildered, and enjoyable as ever. You need not have been self-aware in the 80s to enjoy this book. (I wasn't, and I did)