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Review: Secrets of the Baby Whisperer

October 9, 2010 – 9:48 am

The Book: The Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby, by Tracy Hogg
The Story: Just another parenting book. I wonder how many I’ll read before I either a) relax and do everything however I want or b) become a perfect parent and write my own book?  Meh. We’ll see.
This one kind [...]

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Review: NurtureShock

August 23, 2010 – 9:08 am

The Book: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
The Story: Not to say that these two piggybacked, and maybe the two books have nothing to do with each other, but I think that the best way to summarize this book is to say that it is pretty much Freakonomics about kids.
The [...]

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Review: Mothers & Other Liars

June 29, 2010 – 2:40 pm

The Book: Mothers and Other Liars, by Amy Bourret
The Story: I was lucky enough to end up on an ARC tour started by Jennie, over at Life is Short. Read Fast. She read it and mailed it on to me.  To check out her review, head over here and read up!  I’ll let you know [...]

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Review: Operating Instructions

May 20, 2010 – 4:23 pm

The Book: Operating Instructions: A Journal of my Son’s First Year, by Anne Lamott
The Story: If you’ve ever read Anne Lamott before you know that she has quite the history (drug addict, alcoholic, yadda yadda) and quite the circle of friends.  She converted to Christianity later in her life and is still figuring out all [...]

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