Anonymous
08/08/2022 15:33
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Anne Lamott has 2 books - Operating Instructions (on motherhood) and Some Assembly Required (when her grandson was born).
Anonymous
08/08/2022 13:31
Subject: Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
After Birth - Elisa Albert
https://offtheshelf.com/2016/04/12-novels-that-celebrate-the-joys-and-challenges-of-motherhood/
https://offtheshelf.com/2016/04/12-novels-that-celebrate-the-joys-and-challenges-of-motherhood/
Anonymous
08/07/2022 23:32
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Anonymous wrote:I read a book a couple years ago about a young woman who found out her mom had been a terrorist before she became a mom. Can't recall the name of it at the moment.
I remember what the book was called now. It was called "Pieces of Her".
Anonymous
08/07/2022 21:45
Subject: Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Anonymous wrote:Summer Sisters- Judy Bloom.
Yes....LOVE this one. I’m in my late 30s and I read it the first time when I was 19 and have re read it probably 10 times since then. So good.
Anonymous
08/07/2022 21:07
Subject: Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
I miss you when I blink
Anonymous
08/07/2022 15:19
Subject: Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
I just listened to:
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by jessi Klein.
Some parts were laugh out loud funny and some parts were slow but it was all so relatable.
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by jessi Klein.
Some parts were laugh out loud funny and some parts were slow but it was all so relatable.
Anonymous
08/07/2022 11:05
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
The Friendship Fix by Andrea Bonior. It is not fiction, she is a therapist.
Anonymous
08/07/2022 08:07
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Anonymous wrote:Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. Absolutely beautiful story of the changing friendships btw 2 couples over a lifetime.
My favorite novel ever. I read it at 20 and read it again every decade or so and get something new out of it. Gorgeous, quiet book.
Anonymous
08/07/2022 03:01
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
I read a book a couple years ago about a young woman who found out her mom had been a terrorist before she became a mom. Can't recall the name of it at the moment.
Anonymous
08/06/2022 19:47
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Anonymous wrote:Expecting Adam, by Martha Beck. I happened to pick it up off the "new books" shelf at the library before I even thought I might have children, and it still moved me to my core. Here's a blurb that I totally agree with:
"I can't believe I almost didn't read this book. The thing is, I thought it was about a lady who had a baby with Down Syndrome. This is like saying ANNA KARENINA is a book about a lady who commits suicide. In fact, this book is about matters so important and yet so totally way-out that I would accept no one but a comic genius with seven years at Harvard under her belt telling me about them. That's Martha Beck: funny, companionable, razor-sharp, down-to-earth, and onto the Big Secrets of Life Itself. Anyone considering having a child should have to read this book. It has changed some of my thinking about pregnancy and about children with disabilities, and I don't think it's too much to say it could change my life."
--Marion Winik, author of First Comes Love and The Lunchbox Chronicles
This was so good. Had forgotten about it.
Anonymous
08/06/2022 14:19
Subject: Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Summer Sisters- Judy Bloom.
Anonymous
08/06/2022 14:17
Subject: Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Anne of Green Gables
Anonymous
08/06/2022 09:10
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Expecting Adam, by Martha Beck. I happened to pick it up off the "new books" shelf at the library before I even thought I might have children, and it still moved me to my core. Here's a blurb that I totally agree with:
"I can't believe I almost didn't read this book. The thing is, I thought it was about a lady who had a baby with Down Syndrome. This is like saying ANNA KARENINA is a book about a lady who commits suicide. In fact, this book is about matters so important and yet so totally way-out that I would accept no one but a comic genius with seven years at Harvard under her belt telling me about them. That's Martha Beck: funny, companionable, razor-sharp, down-to-earth, and onto the Big Secrets of Life Itself. Anyone considering having a child should have to read this book. It has changed some of my thinking about pregnancy and about children with disabilities, and I don't think it's too much to say it could change my life."
--Marion Winik, author of First Comes Love and The Lunchbox Chronicles
"I can't believe I almost didn't read this book. The thing is, I thought it was about a lady who had a baby with Down Syndrome. This is like saying ANNA KARENINA is a book about a lady who commits suicide. In fact, this book is about matters so important and yet so totally way-out that I would accept no one but a comic genius with seven years at Harvard under her belt telling me about them. That's Martha Beck: funny, companionable, razor-sharp, down-to-earth, and onto the Big Secrets of Life Itself. Anyone considering having a child should have to read this book. It has changed some of my thinking about pregnancy and about children with disabilities, and I don't think it's too much to say it could change my life."
--Marion Winik, author of First Comes Love and The Lunchbox Chronicles
Anonymous
08/06/2022 09:04
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
Back When We Were Grown Ups by Anne Tyler
Anonymous
08/06/2022 09:02
Subject: Re:Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood
My brilliant friend - Elena Ferrante.