An idea for November

[adrianka]

I was randomly looking for books and found this - Kate Long - The Bad Mother's Handbook. I definitely want to read it and I thought I'd mention it as a suggestion.

[BrattyMeg]

I'll add it to the suggestion thread that will go up this weekend

[adrianka]

Cool, thanks!

[kendallt]

Looks like an interesting read!

[adrianka]

Reviews look nice as well, let's see if the real thing can live up to them. The book is already on its way to me. It seemed intriguing to me that it's supposed to be a non-saccharine version of "women literature" (I use quotation marks because IMHO this is a weird category, since women tend to read anything, not just romance, and there's nothing like "men literature", so there).

[adrianka]

The book arrived yesterday and I longed to have some offline time, so I read about a third of it already.

I very much love it, but WHOEVER wrote the commentaries on the cover of my edition never read it.

Hilarious? A cracking read? It's more bittersweet. It's not a laughing-out-loud book, it's very real, very non-sentimental and intriguing. But hilarious? Come on. Talk about misguiding potential readers (and disappointing them, if they're looking for hilarious).

And why does every single book a No. 1 Bestseller written on it? Is it supposed to help sales? It kind of loses any point if you write it on every cover of a book nobody ever heard of.

Still I'm happy with my book, which is way better than the other way round.