Review: Clever parts but awfully repetitious
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2013
I wanted to like the book more than I did.  The author writes some very funny sections about the #ManCode and her husband's foibles (unable to change a toilet paper roll and thrown to the wolves by having to go grocery shopping without a list!) that ring true to most wives and girlfriends.  And the entry about her daughter and the nurse-Nazi who threw her out of school because of head lice (scratch, scratch!) was so true I couldn't stop laughing!  The author also warns you right up front that she is no Erma Bombeck, so I did not mind her forays into seriousness about her still-emotional relationship with her ex and the sadness that ensued, although I started to worry about her after the third or fourth time she brought it up.  That is what kind of turned me off about the book: the overly repetitious nature of many of the stories.  I guess the book was created out of the author's blog, and perhaps blog readers are more casual readers who need to be reminded over and over again of previous things that have transpired.  But book readers generally remember passages they have read earlier in the book and are somewhat confused (and annoyed?) by why this is being explained AGAIN.  If you don't have enough material to write an entire book of unique episodes, then perhaps you should wait until you do.  But I don't think that was the case with this author - she seemed to have LOTS of snarky things to share, so maybe it was more of an editing and focus problem instead.  And maybe she needs to see a professional about her feelings about her ex . . .