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Summary: read this book
Review: this is a wonderful book! funny, touching, intelligent. this book is about becoming a parent, about relationships, about life. it is laugh-out-loud funny. unfortunately i have finished reading it and now i'm just waiting for ms. newman to finish the next book.
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Summary: page turning laughter at its best
Review: When a book's acknowledgments make me laugh, it's a very good sign. Read on, the laughs continue. Not just on every page, but in every paragraph. Newman's funny, honest, and poignant tale of an "older" woman's plunge into motherhood, is the kind of book you tell your friends *and* your enemies about - because you just can't help yourself. I'm so glad I alphabetize my books by author so Newman can take her rightful place before David Rakoff, David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell.
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Summary: page turning laughter at its best
Review: When a book's acknowledgments make me laugh, it's a very good sign. Read on, the laughs continue. Not just on every page, but in every paragraph. Newman's funny, honest, and poignant tale of an "older" woman's plunge into motherhood, is the kind of book you tell your friends *and* your enemies about - because you just can't help yourself. I'm so glad I alphabetize my books by author so Newman can take her rightful place before David Rakoff, David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell.
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Summary: Joy!
Review: Whether you want children, have them or are child free, this searingly honest account of a granted wish, will lift your spirits and make you sing. I turned the pages so fast it made my hands bleed. Funny, Clever, poignant and funny all over again.
It is my book of the year and I can't wait for the film!Maria McErlane
London
England
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Summary: Great title but for the wrong book ...
Review: Why would someone with such a low opinion of motherhood and babies have an obsessive need to bear offspring with a husband she doesn't live with and who, by the way, is the age of some great grandfathers? From the eye-catching title, I was expecting a humorous story about an older mom juggling career, marriage and motherhood. Instead, I found a disturbing glimpse into the life of a woman so unable to connect with her husband and children she lets readers in on her fantasies of killing them. Someone please alert social services!
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