Food and Whine : Confessions of a New Millennium Mom

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Summary: No Erma Bombeck!
Review: I was looking forward to reading a funny book about the perils and joys of parenthood and I was extremely disappointed! Erma Bombeck is funny and witty. Moses is definately not!

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Summary: LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY
Review: I was so glad I had this book during an especially bad commute--I didn't even notice the half hour delay I was so amused and enchanted with Moses's stories. I terrific gift for any woman fed up with the saccharine garbage that fills most books on motherhood.

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Summary: This book really won me over!
Review: I went into this book prepared to be somewhat annoyed by it. I think that was because the background of the author was so very different from myself (I'm not rich, I'm not Jewish, I don't have parents and in-laws flooding my children with lavish gifts). However, I was TOTALLY won over by the wonderful writing and extremely honesty of the author. She managed to find the common ground that I think all mothers (and especially mother who enjoy cooking, or who are going through dealing with illnesses of parents or in-laws) share. I laughed out loud over and over, and shed more than a few tears. It's so rare to find real honesty in writing, especially about motherhood--so many parents who write do so in such a poetic and glowing and ultimately fake way. If you are a parent, I think this is one worth reading.

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Summary: Insufferable garbage.
Review: I'm a huge fan of Erma Bombeck. Jennifer Moses is no Erma Bombeck. In fact, Jennifer Moses is no writer. She's unfunny and, worse, boring. Do not buy this book.

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Summary: hilarious and poignant
Review: Jennifer Moses' book is full of her insightful observations of life's contradictions...laughter, joy, sorrow, triumphs and tribulations. Written in a prose which induced honest to goodness belly laughs from this particular reader,she tells it like it is with humor and love. Insightful, hilarious, and poignant...a joy to read.

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Summary: Moses has the recipe for humor down pat
Review: Like Jennifer Moses' father, I don't cook. So why am I reading a cook book? Because the recipes are irrelevant. To wit: I sat in an airport, mad as a snake about a late night plane that was seriously late. As I started this book, I began to laugh so loud that the woman next to me said "You sure are having more fun than I am , watching this dumb TV". She was right . From first to last , Moses has written a book that is food for the soul... and for the funny bone.

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Summary: Painfully narcissistic
Review: There are many entertaining, talented contemporary memoirists, and Ms. Moses is not among them. She must have publishing connections, because she does not come close to standing (or leaning) on her own as a writer.

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Summary: Jennifer Moses is amazingly funny
Review: This book captures the essence of motherhood at the turn of the century. It should be required reading for all mothers--and fathers--coping with kids in these difficult times. Although very funny, behind the humor there is a Swiftian sense of the irony and absurdity of modern life.

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Summary: A wacky mixture of hilarity and humanity
Review: This book is hilarious and a real page-turner. I read it in one sitting, give or take a few food breaks--which is part of the author's point: that the texture of daily life involves a whole lot of mind-numbing, repetitive food preparation when you are dedicated to nurturing husband and children. At first you think you are reading an off-kilter and off-the-cuff cookbook/self-help book. But as you continue, the narrative, which is casually interspersed with "girlfriend"-type advice, gains power and intimacy, and detail upon detail of everyday suburban domestic life finally coelesces into a touching memoir that is as ridiculous as it is wise. (And even though it doesn't, finally, turn out to be a cookbook, I actually made some of the recipes and they were great!)

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Summary: A refreshing glimpse of 90's motherhood.
Review: This book will make you laugh. It's a humor-filled piece on a year in the life of a sometimes bewildered wife and mother. Most moms will relate and enjoy Moses's fresh approach. She dares to say what most of us only dare to think.