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Summary: Enjoyable.
Review: I thought Pearson's book was right on the money. This is a must read for any busy mother trying to juggle both working outside the home and motherhood. Kate Reddy expresses many of the feelings about working, husbands, and motherhood that many of us may have felt from time to time. Kate Reddy could be my British twin!
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Summary: Screamingly funny, so please don't take it seriously
Review: What a funny book; I loved it! What makes this book so funny is that even Kate does not take herself seriously; read her emails if you have any doubt. This book is not a treastise or a how-to book. It's fiction; particularly well-written, very funny FICTION, and I wish all the reviewers would treat it as such.
Most women will never make as much money as Kate does. It doesn't matter. We still have to lie about staying home with sick kids, we still think we're dressed appropriately until we look down and see baby spit-up or the agent provacatuer bra, we still have to compete with the Muffia. (And now that I'm at home full time, I STILL can't keep up with the Muffia.)We can all laugh and cry and be proud and even disappointed about where those damn suffragettes in Emily's "Mary Poppins" movie have gotten us to. This book is a wonderfully funny look at the state of women today. We can all see ourselves in Kate Reddy, but none of us ARE Kate Reddy (thank God!).
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Summary: A must-read for all moms!
Review: I thought this book was very entertaining. At first I thought this book would hold no interest to me, as a stay-at home mom, but I found many of the Kate's insights and dilemmas so true and often comical. I know exactly what she is talking about in her book--all the different characters--the muffia, the moms who write thank you's for playdates and have their holiday shopping finished in August. I truly enjoyed this book! A must read for all moms!
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Summary: I know exactly how she does it
Review: She has a bazillion dollars, a wonderful understanding husband, great lingerie, a fantasy lover and more or less everything else she wants in the world. Terrific. I know how she does it, now can someone tell me how I do it? I only have the kids in common. As a struggling, overeducated, extremely underpaid, single mother, this book was a total disappointment. Even comedy must have some reality to it. There are cute bits - yes, mothers are competitive - but the treacly attitude does them in. And at the end? SHE can walk away and 99% of us cannot; it's a copout. I was very disappointed with this book.
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Summary: Don't know why she ended it that way...
Review: At the age of 30 and not yet a mother, I spend lots of time with friends discussing our fears of how in the world we'll balance motherhood with a full-time job (we can barely manage just the job now). This book was a quick and entertaining read that gave me a glimpse of the craziness I have to look forward to. Like Bridget Jones, it had me laughing out loud many times. Unfortunately, the ending was a bit of a disappointment. I had the feeling the author tried a series of endings and ultimately landed on this one for lack of anything more interesting.
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Summary: A thought-provoking and essential read for working moms
Review: As a new working mother, I gobbled this book up ferociously, it was an incredible read and spoke to me in a way that no one has yet. The troubles with balance, wrestling with guilt, all of the struggles inherent in trying to manage a career and a home are addressed in this witty and insightful novel. I had hoped that, after reading this, I would have a better idea of how to try to make life work with the multitude of roles I now have, but alas it doesn't as you'll see (I won't spoil the ending). There is no one best answer for career-driven mothers and the myth of the "superwoman" is just that. It is impossible to be the best worker and the best mom, you can only do the best you can, which oftentimes feels woefully inadequate. My problem now is that I don't know who to lend this to next because all of my friends who work don't have kids and all of my mother friends don't work. So I think I'll hang on to it and read it again. Is there anyone out there who is a working mom? We need to stick together.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Allison Pearson's book is the true confessions of the working mother who is determined to keep the appearance of perfection and balance but killing herself inside. It is a very therapuetic book for any working mother. A "must read."
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Summary: Thought I hated her, but I came around
Review: Kate chose the right path in the end- and I had fun laughing along the way. I believe in choice. I chose to go to university, I chose to pay for it by co-oping and creative means and graduate debt free. I chose to be an engineer, I chose to build a strong career that pays extremely well. I also chose to invest my earnings in assets that allow my husband and I to spend time with our children. I don't buy that families don't have a "choice" for the woman (or man) to stay home (barring death, illness and tragic circumstances). You can choose not to have children, you can choose to live within your means, you can choose to develop careers that are flexible and allow for home work. MY POINT- in the beginning I thought that Kate was a borderline child abuser. She rarely saw her kids, was more hung up on appearances than actual child rearing. She refused to turn her cell phone off on Boxing Day. She left her children in the care of a nanny that she didn't totally trust. She neglected her husband. Though I don't believe that a woman should become a matronly stay-at-home martyr- I don't see the point in having kids if you don't want to spend time with them. In the end, what would I regret- not seeing my kids when they were small or being slightly set back 5-10 years careerwise? The answer is obvious, and I plan to live a long life and enjoy my career once my kids have been raised properly by hands-on parents.
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Summary: Devoured in a 3 day reading frenzy, so why only 3 stars?
Review: I want to give this book more stars - the same 'want' that forced my fingers to flip pages until 3 in the morning and finally convinced me to finish a book (which I don't think I'd done since becoming pregnant the second time, and he's just turned one.) Kate Reddy's life so closely parallels my own that I think I did what many disappointed readers have done with this book - I read it looking for answers or hints or clues. I wanted Allison Pearson to tell me how I could do it. In truth this was an interesting, well written book that kept me engaged and I could easily identify with the characters. Too easily. Which is why, when it turned out that how she does it is that she doesn't, I felt as though my shiny red heart balloon which had been hopefully soaring towards the sky was suddenly caught on a barbed wire fence and subsequently taken as the bull's eye for every passing pigeon. The ending spoke to me and it said, 'this amount of stress can't even work fictionally, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!' While this might prove to be worthwhile soul-searching for others, it was a detour I just didn't need to take. As I've seen other reviewers comment, the big difference between Kate Reddy and many of the working mothers picking up this book is that the latter do not have a choice. Rather, since I do believe we always have choices to make, many mothers' only Plan B is just as unappealing as their working scenario as it involves introducing equally debilitating amounts of stress felt uniformly across the family (translation - financial woes). I think I would be more likely to recommend this book to stay-at-home moms who need some reassurance and, unfortunately, I would strongly recommend that working mothers wielding gregarious consciences STAY AWAY. It's not easy, and this doesn't make it any easier.
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Summary: Hurray for working moms!
Review: This book is well written and thought provoking. It accurately depicts the working mom "balancing act "while keeping the reader interested. I thought this book was fantastic -- read it in a day!
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