Dating Big Bird

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Summary: Funny and enjoyable
Review: This is a good beach read. Expect to fly through the easy to handle prose, laugh at many jokes, and not have your life changed in any significant way. This is hardly fine literature, but a good break from more challenging writing. Animal Husbandry was much better.

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Summary: Delusional...
Review: "...a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self". That's what the heroine of this relentlessly cute and sentimental tale is. Obsessed with reproducing herself, even with no husband/father in the picture, because a baby is so "cute" and will "fulfill" her empty life. This woman is a loser. She cannot establish a relationship with a man, so she's going to bring a child into her empty life and expect it to take up some of her empty time. Guess what - they don't stay small and adorable forever! They aren't pets! No matter how much money a single mother makes, it will not make up for the fact that the child has no FATHER and probably will be raised by some foreign-born nanny anyway, so the mother can afford more expensive clothes to dress up her trophy child.

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Summary: A funny and delightful read
Review: I read this charming book in one sitting. She is funny and insightful.

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Summary: only for the baby obsessed
Review: Only read this book if you are single and having a baby is what you consider to be the meaning of life. The book's protagonist is completely obsessed with having a baby, with or without a man, and the entire book is focuses on her baby obsession. Her view is that nothing else in life is more important than having a baby and that it's not worth waiting for the right man to have a baby with. To enjoy this book you would have to buy into the philosophy that a baby is panacea for a disappointing career and bad relationships with men. This fueled an anti-baby obsession in me, the whole time I was reading the book I was thinking, this is not what life is about, there is so much more... Laura Zigman's first book, Animal husbandry, was excellent and remains a favorite for it's dry humor and applicableness to single life.

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Summary: The Next Nora Ephron
Review: Quirky, enjoyable book. I found myself wrapped up in the lives of the characters and wanting more when it ended. It's one of those books that I found myself thinking about during the day and anxious to get into bed so I could read it! I can't wait for her next book! I think any single woman entering into her mid 30's will relate to the plot. It's a short, sweet story that I will encourage my friends to read...the single one's in their mid-30's of course!

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Summary: A MUST for the baby obsessed!
Review: I just finished reading Dating Big Bird and cannot think of a book I've read recently that I've enjoyed half as much! Just like the main character Ellen, I am among the ranks of the "reproductively challenged" and was delighted to find a book that seems to have been custom written for me! Those of us bitten by the baby bug often feel that we are alone - Ellen's trials and mishaps along the road to motherhood demonstrate that baby-lust is much more common that one might expect. Two thumbs way up on this one!

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Summary: I went out with Big Bird
Review: Dear Big Bird , I love you and Mr. Dunphy

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Summary: zigman does it again
Review: I read this book in two sittings - in itself a testament to her skills. It was funny, smart, and real. I especially loved the MAMMO part, I myself would like a necklace like that. I look forward to her next work.....

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Summary: grat quick summer read!
Review: This is a great book for summer, all girls will love the honest, loveable story. And all who have babies on the brain will see there own life in the story!

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Summary: Seeking a Baby
Review: Easy Read...I'm not Ellen's age, yet, But Many women are 35 ready to have kids, but no suitable partners...A very real story for the 21 st century..In the end you feel good about Ellen's decision