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Review: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

The Book: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, by Ayelet Waldman
The Story: Emilia lives in an amazing apartment with her amazing lawyer husband who was a married man when they met and fell in love.  He chose her and they are pretty much living the dream.  With just a couple of exceptions.  Emilia doesn’t like her [...]

Review: Pregnancy Sucks

The Book: Pregnancy Sucks: What to Do When Your Miracle Makes You Miserable, by Joanne Kimes
The Story: The story is simply this: Joanne got pregnant after months and months of trying.  Joanne got whiny.
That’s basically it.
This book is set up in a month-by-month format, which is kinda funny because in the start of the book [...]

Review: Belly Laughs

The Book: Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Child birth, by Jenny McCarthy
The Story: Former Playmate and host of that hilarious show on MTV (Singled Out?) gets pregnant.  She and her husband had been trying for awhile, so she was excited but also totally shocked.
The book is set up in these short little [...]

Book Review: What to Expect When You’re Expecting

The Book: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
This review is going to be a little bit different than my normal review set-up.  The reason? I do not want to pass on any of the information that I got from this book.  I don’t want to tell you the “story,” so I’ll just hop right to [...]