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Summary: It made me laugh through my hot flashes
Review: I enjoyed Mentalpause to the max. It was upbeat and encouraging It made me laugh at myself because I could relate to all of the stories. I think Laura did a wonderful job showing women that there is a funny side to menopause. Menopause is a part of life and Laura's book shows women how to embrace it with laughter.
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Summary: It made me laugh through my hot flashes
Review: I enjoyed Mentalpause to the max. It was upbeat and encouraging It made me laugh at myself because I could relate to all of the stories. I think Laura did a wonderful job showing women that there is a funny side to menopause. Menopause is a part of life and Laura's book shows women how to embrace it with laughter.
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Summary: THANK YOU, LAURA JENSEN WALKER!
Review: I laughed til I cried! Not only does Laura Jensen Walker relate to those women who experience menopause at the medically correct age, she also speaks to those of us who have gone thru it early in life. AND...she somehow manages to hit every avenue of it without embarassing herself or her readers! The only red face comes from the age old hot flash one may suffer thru while reading the book! There's no reason to suffer thru menopause anymore! Laura has taken that which we dreaded and made it...well, ALMOST fun! Thank you, Laura Jensen Walker for putting into words what my hot flashes have been trying to say for so long!"
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Summary: Who would think mid-life could be funny?
Review: I never would have thought hot flashes and strange hormones would be funny business--then I read Mentalpause. It gave me pause for thought! Laura has a warm wit that cuts through the saccharine approach to real life issues. Looking at circumstances through Laura's eyes makes me smile at the present (and the future) rather than wishing I had the money to run to the plastic surgeon! This book is well worth the read. It made me laugh until I snorted and when I caught my breath I said, "Wow! That was deep!"
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Summary: Who would think mid-life could be funny?
Review: I never would have thought hot flashes and strange hormones would be funny business--then I read Mentalpause. It gave me pause for thought! Laura has a warm wit that cuts through the saccharine approach to real life issues. Looking at circumstances through Laura's eyes makes me smile at the present (and the future) rather than wishing I had the money to run to the plastic surgeon! This book is well worth the read. It made me laugh until I snorted and when I caught my breath I said, "Wow! That was deep!"
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Summary: A Fly On the Wall. . .
Review: I'm ashamed to admit that Laura Jensen Walker is a spy. Evidently she has peeped into my life, and the lives of thousands of other women who find themselves on the other side of forty. Thank God we can laugh about it together, and that is exactly what she accomplishes with "Mentalpause". "I'm normal!" I shouted, after reading Laura's hilarious first chapter. I guess I'm not going crazy after all. I'm simply a bright, maturing woman entering a new season of life called "Mentalpause". Thanks, Laura, for the laughs and an honest, humorous look at aging.
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Summary: Wait? I?m going through some of this already!
Review: I'm in my mid thirties (I think I'm starting to forget my age already) and the other day I was so stressed about a situation I forgot my own address. My husband looked at me strangely and I started to cry. HELP. After reading this book, I'm starting to wonder. Ok, so that was PMS (right?). According to Laura, PMS is a picnic in the park and you go from PMS to perimenopause. Oh, joys. I think Laura could survive anything in life as long as she found a way to laugh about it. She has somehow found a way to turn every bad situation in life into a joyful celebration of wit. It is quite refreshing. This is my favorite book so far. The author of this humorous book was only forty-two when she started having hot flashes. I want to ask her if tossing your covers off in the middle of the night is a sign, but then I remember my husband turns down the air conditioning on a regular basis. According to Laura, she is always turning the air conditioning on full blast when one hits. I love where she says: "Over the years, I've subjected Michael to plenty of unhappy PMS parties as well. Beginning in our dating days. But since he proposed marriage to me during a particularly emotional PMS attack, I figure he knew what he was getting himself into." She discusses the joys of hair growing on your face (PCOS can do that too, or so I heard ;) after forty, the fight against mother nature and explains the very scientific and exhaustive list of Middle-Age Terms. Her "How to Take Care of Your Over-Forty Self" sounds so comforting. The Contents Include: Metalpause
Who IS that Woman in the Mirror?
The Drop Zone
PMS Is a Picnic in the Park
Thermostat Wars
I?m Havin? a Heat Wave
Playing Connect-the-Dots with My Age Spots
Of Crow?s Feet, Varicose Veins, and Facial Hair
The Eyes Have Had It
Food for Thought
Let?s Hear It for All the Fuddy-Duddies!
The Middle-Age Top 40 Chart
His Mid-Yikes Cxrisis
Not in the Mood
Cry Me a River
Where Have All My Memories Gone?
From Sweet Nothings to Metamucil Murmurings
Mother Said There?d Be Days like This
Don?t Throw in the Towel If you read this book, you will suddenly understand your mother and what she has gone through, is going through or is going to go through. It is great insight into your own impending doom! I'm not going without a fight! Pass the chocolate. You may also enjoy: Thanks for the Mammogram!
Dated Jekyll, Married Hyde
Love Handles for the Romantically Imparied
Through the Rocky Road into the Rainbow Sherbet ~TheRebeccaReview.com
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Summary: Glad I Was Born A Man
Review: Just when you thought it was safe to cross the street, Laura Jensen Walker comes along and hits us with a bus load of laughs that sends our funny bones soaring. After reading this latest collection from one of the foremost Christian humorists I can only conclude how happy I am God made me a man-albeit a married man who will be vicariously experiencing the symptoms of "mentalpause" soon enough.
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Summary: Laughter Is Still The Best Medicine
Review: Laura Jensen Walker has done it again with her latest book Mentalpause And Other Mid-life Laughs. She relates the humorous side of going through Menapause to all women going through or gone through this time in their life. While reading Mentalpause women will laugh and realize that we all go through it. Lots of humorous stories from other women will help us all to see yet again that laughter is the best medicine during life's trials and tribulations.
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Summary: Great medicine for the soul!
Review: Laura Jensen Walker tickles the funny bones of readers from page one on. This book empathizes, while reminding us to laugh at ourselves. A great read for women who've been through menapause, or those who are getting ready to go through it, and the men who are trying to understand them!
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