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Summary: "Snide" wins over "heartfelt and funny"
Review: At last here is a FUNNY and smart book about life, loss, and becoming a parent that includes a gay woman's perspective but is not a "gay book." Perfect for any woman who stays up all night wondering whether or not she wants to become a mommy. A great read!
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Summary: Finally!!
Review: At last here is a FUNNY and smart book about life, loss, and becoming a parent that includes a gay woman's perspective but is not a "gay book." Perfect for any woman who stays up all night wondering whether or not she wants to become a mommy. A great read!
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Summary: Bravo
Review: From the moment I first picked up Buying Dad I was hooked and could not put it down. Harlyn Aizley takes two of life's biggest occasions - deciding to have a baby and watching your mother battle cancer - and dares to embrace them with humor, wit, and deep emotion. As a straight woman who also lost her mother near to when her first child was born, I can only say this book allowed me the opportunity to both cry and laugh out loud about a very difficult time in my life. Harlyn Aizley is the kind of writer you want to take out to dinner and chat with when the book is done.
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Summary: Very great book!
Review: I had this book on my shelf for a month before opening it - why did I wait so long? I agree with the other reviewers. This is a funny, moving, and yes, heartfelt book. Harlyn Aizley's voice is one I will never forget. Very poetic and humorous take on two of life's biggest and hardest adventures.
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Summary: Very great book!
Review: I had this book on my shelf for a month before opening it - why did I wait so long? I agree with the other reviewers. This is a funny, moving, and yes, heartfelt book. Harlyn Aizley's voice is one I will never forget. Very poetic and humorous take on two of life's biggest and hardest adventures.
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Summary: moving and wonderful
Review: It's hard to imagine laughing about cancer and crying about sperm, but that's what I did while reading Buying Dad. Harlyn Aizley's insights and sharp wit made reading about two really difficult issues - cancer and infertility - a joy and a learning experience. A great book to pass on to a friend thinking of becoming a mom or to someone who is helping a loved one face cancer.
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Summary: "Snide" wins over "heartfelt and funny"
Review: This book is well written, amusing, and chatty; reading it is like entering into someone's confidence about juicy details you were dying to know but were too polite to ask about. The problem is, that entry also allows you to see the author's rather snide outlook, an outlook that shows contempt for those not in her inner circle (and given that the author is self-described as a very private person with lots of boundaries, that circle is seems to be pretty small). The rest of the world is often portrayed with a callousness that is a bit chilling (e.g. the "obese" social worker who liked watermelon decor, or the sperm bank social worker whose I.Q. was presumably not as high as Aizley's). The therapist that Aizley had found to be "smart enough" to work with seems to have left her disdain untouched. Her description of her mother's illness and death was heartfelt and moving, as was that of her emerging love for her baby, but in the end, the snide tone was what I was left with.
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Summary: This Gal is FUNNY
Review: Whoever said lesbians aren't funny and can't laugh at themselves, has not read Buying Dad. It's just too bad Aizley is tied up with a child now as she would make a great stand-up comic.
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