Bad Mother : A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace (Paperback)

from SallyBrice

Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace is a book I started with suspicion. Of course I had heard about Ayelet Waldman's article about loving her husband more than her children. I thought she was either lying or rubbing our noses in the fact th...

from bostonian71

Searingly honest in many places, hilarious in others. I wasn't prepared for all of Waldman's intimate confessions of her "crimes", and sometimes she does cross the line and reveal what feels like way too much information. (Though some of this easily could be my own prudishness.) But she writes el...

from kristenn

It's tricky to review a book whose author regularly discusses how mean people on the internet are about her writing... This book was unusually all over the place for me, in terms of my reaction to it. There were chapters that I really enjoyed (including the last one) but also some that drove me u...

from Jenners26

Overview Subtitled "A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace," Bad Mother is a warts-and-all look at Waldman's experiences as a mother. (She has four children.) These types of books are like catnip to me. What mother doesn't want to learn that she is not al...

from SqueakyChu

Bad Mother is not a book about a bad mother. It simply is a book about motherhood in the way it is experienced by author Ayelet Waldman. Waldman, mother of four children, started a controversy not too long ago by saying that she loves her husband more than her children. She talks about this state...