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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
As a new mom, I was searching for books that had some sort of motherhood element, fiction or non, and saw this recommended. I’m not familiar with Jessi Klein but she had me from the first chapter, when comparing motherhood to the archetypal “hero’s journey.”
I loved this so much. It’s funny, insightful, and validating. There is no community quite like motherhood.
I loved this so much. It’s funny, insightful, and validating. There is no community quite like motherhood.
”There is something I feel when my boy holds my hand. It is simultaneously the most blissed out I feel as a mother, and the most terrified I feel as the regular human person that, somewhere inside, I still am. … Can I believe in myself the way he believes in me? The old self isn’t sure. And then there is the new self that knows, with profound certainty: yes. Yes, because, I can do this. I did it yesterday, and the day before that, and I did it today, and I know I will do it tomorrow. I’ve been pushed past every edge I thought was my limit, and still, I stayed.”
funny
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
This is the book about parenting that I would have wanted to read when my kids were much younger. It’s funny and honest and exactly the words we all need to hear - that we all have no idea what we are doing but we just give it our best shot.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
I think I would have enjoyed this more if I weren't still in the thick of so much of what she talks about, but absolutely Jessi Klein is funny. She articulates mom feelings that are probably incredibly common, but nobody says. Some of these essays should be mandatory reading in sex ed classes.
I really enjoyed the first essay and a few others, but was occasionally uneven and very privileged.
I found several of these essays deeply relatable. It was refreshing to read this perspective, acknowledging how everything changes when you become a mom- what matters, what doesn’t, what you have to give a f*ck about, what you don’t have time to give a f*ck about anymore. Really appreciated the permission for nostalgia for prior self (selves) with different (easier) realities. Details in each essay that felt so true to my experience of motherhood… the drudgery of playing cars with a toddler, total dissociation while reading children’s books, the absolute rage when your child will not conform to the car seat on a hot day….or is a super picky eater. These are all just as real and valid as the magic moments of raising children. I don’t need more essays that admonish me to revel in every moment of raising children and put a bow on at the end. I laughed out loud several times.
When I realized this woman had both a night nurse AND a nanny, I was absolutely done.
emotional
funny
medium-paced