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A review by servemethesky
Cheaper by the Dozen by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Frank B. Gilbreth
3.0
After much persuasion from my eager coworker, I finally picked up Cheaper by the Dozen. It was an enjoyable enough read, but throughout it, I found myself thinking it was far too rosy. I like books that are dark and twisty. It's also hard for me to NOT read novels. I kept wishing for some kind of plot, rising action and a climax with resolution at the end. That was not the case with this book.
Cheaper by the Dozen is a collection of mostly nonfictional stories about the life of a family with 12 kids. The stories are cute and touching, and feel like relics of a bygone era, so that's kind of cool.
Then abruptly, the dad dies in the final story and the book is over. Yikes! That wasn't the kind of dark and twisty I was looking for.
I've heard there's a second book, [b:Belles on Their Toes|248540|Belles on Their Toes|Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1412741236s/248540.jpg|1306704], involving the mom becoming a badass superfeminist. I might pick it up sometime.
Cheaper by the Dozen is a collection of mostly nonfictional stories about the life of a family with 12 kids. The stories are cute and touching, and feel like relics of a bygone era, so that's kind of cool.
Then abruptly, the dad dies in the final story and the book is over. Yikes! That wasn't the kind of dark and twisty I was looking for.
I've heard there's a second book, [b:Belles on Their Toes|248540|Belles on Their Toes|Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1412741236s/248540.jpg|1306704], involving the mom becoming a badass superfeminist. I might pick it up sometime.