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memigliore's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
A super fun audiobook! I really enjoyed this story. The formatting was fun and different. If you enjoy a sarcastic millennial feel with heavy mom content you will love it. What’s great about this book is that it’s not like a normal book about a motherhood this book shows the complexity of adulthood with parenthood on top of that.
missy_evanko's review
2.0
Kept getting confused with the different storylines and POV. Cute light read, but definitely light on the partying aspect, and light on the food references, both of which I was expecting more of after reading the description.
clare_tan_wenhui's review
4.0
"I had no right to judge these women and understood that part of it was jealousy, but there was something else too, rooted in a disappointment in friendships, my expectations and hope for them... At that time, I didn't value a thing. Friendships was like a cold, I was hunkering down, trying to get through it, hoping for future health."
pg 136
"Friendships are meant to strengthen you, not deplete you."
pg 140
"So that's what scares me the most- the choices that we make that herd us towards a certain point, making the other options and places fall away."
pg 197
While reading this novel, I was somehow reminded of the trailer of this recent movie "Bad Moms" (I haven't watched the movie yet though). The feel of this book was similar, though in a more realistic and muted, less slapsticky manner. Quite a good read with entertaining and interesting insight to parenthood, its good bad and ugly. Note that strictly speaking, since its narrative is one of interlocking parallels consisting of multiple minute stories which can stand alone by themselves, there was a bit of disorientation, and it took me quite a while to understand the structure. However, once you figure it out, you'll be able to start enjoying.
pg 136
"Friendships are meant to strengthen you, not deplete you."
pg 140
"So that's what scares me the most- the choices that we make that herd us towards a certain point, making the other options and places fall away."
pg 197
While reading this novel, I was somehow reminded of the trailer of this recent movie "Bad Moms" (I haven't watched the movie yet though). The feel of this book was similar, though in a more realistic and muted, less slapsticky manner. Quite a good read with entertaining and interesting insight to parenthood, its good bad and ugly. Note that strictly speaking, since its narrative is one of interlocking parallels consisting of multiple minute stories which can stand alone by themselves, there was a bit of disorientation, and it took me quite a while to understand the structure. However, once you figure it out, you'll be able to start enjoying.
machadofam8's review
3.0
This was an all-around fun book to read. Another book in which each chapter felt like a short story though they all flowed together very well. Thought it had a realistic ending too.
sk24's review
2.0
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OMG, this book was so boring! If it wasn’t so short, I don’t think I would have been able to finish it. I just could not find any interest in the story. The thing was, there barely even was a story. What was the point of what I just read? Ugh. I’m very unsatisfied with this book.
I was looking forward to it. This is supposed to be a well-established author, but this book did not feel like it was written by a good, experienced author in my opinion. It was incredibly boring to me.
This book advertises itself as funny. I didn’t laugh once throughout the book. All it did was bore me and make me wish it was over already. I had to skim parts in order to make it through.
Thoroughly disappointed with this book.
OMG, this book was so boring! If it wasn’t so short, I don’t think I would have been able to finish it. I just could not find any interest in the story. The thing was, there barely even was a story. What was the point of what I just read? Ugh. I’m very unsatisfied with this book.
I was looking forward to it. This is supposed to be a well-established author, but this book did not feel like it was written by a good, experienced author in my opinion. It was incredibly boring to me.
This book advertises itself as funny. I didn’t laugh once throughout the book. All it did was bore me and make me wish it was over already. I had to skim parts in order to make it through.
Thoroughly disappointed with this book.
anuhallimaestevens's review
2.0
I did not like that at all! Very back and forth and just dragged. Finished it regardless, the hours I'll never get back haha!
mauryneiberg18's review
5.0
This was a marvelous, if somewhat quirky book. Anyone who has ever been that mom that doesn't fit in can empathize, and anyone who has ever been part of an intense online community should be able to see some of themselves in this. While amusing and off the cuff, there's some deep thoughts about identity and motherhood. It's more of a 4.5 than a 5, but I gave it the extra .5 points for topic and tone.
gilmoreguide's review against another edition
3.0
At twenty-eight Mele Bart finds herself as a single mother, because after giving birth to daughter Ellie her boyfriend Bobby tells her he was "kind of engaged" to someone else. What?! Not one to wallow and with a infant to care for, Mele moves on. In an effort to have some kind of life outside her apartment she tries to find support in one of the neighborhood groups of the San Francisco Mother’s Club, but finding the right SFMC to join it’s harder than it sounds. She’s looking for somewhere between the crunchy granola mothers who breastfeed until the child leaves for high school and the yummy mommies who
She looked like she was going to the Golden Globes and she wasn’t holding a baby. She looked like she had never held a baby, just a Pomeranian in a Burberry raincoat, and I wondered if babies were discouraged at playdates.
Thankfully, she encounters Annie, Barrett, Georgia and Henry and their laidback, irreverent SFMC chapter is born. Things gets even better when the SFMC runs a cookbook competition which she enters, banking on her experience as a recipe blogger. One of the names she suggests for her cookbook, if she wins, is How to Party with an Infant, which is also the name of this new novel from Kaui Hart Hemmings.
The rest of this review is available at The Gilmore Guide to Books: http://wp.me/p2B7gG-1NA
She looked like she was going to the Golden Globes and she wasn’t holding a baby. She looked like she had never held a baby, just a Pomeranian in a Burberry raincoat, and I wondered if babies were discouraged at playdates.
Thankfully, she encounters Annie, Barrett, Georgia and Henry and their laidback, irreverent SFMC chapter is born. Things gets even better when the SFMC runs a cookbook competition which she enters, banking on her experience as a recipe blogger. One of the names she suggests for her cookbook, if she wins, is How to Party with an Infant, which is also the name of this new novel from Kaui Hart Hemmings.
The rest of this review is available at The Gilmore Guide to Books: http://wp.me/p2B7gG-1NA
longstorieshort's review against another edition
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75