Picked this up off a remainder table. Looked like a humorous pastiche of mommy blogs, which I guess it was, minus the humor. Apparently, the book is based on a frequent column in the New Yorker by Ian Frazier, who wrote the favorite nonfiction I've read this year, The Great Plains. While I admire his ambition to stretch between such wildly different genres, I really struggled to finish this tedious bit of fluff. I give this one star not because it wasn't funny at all but it was repetitive to the point of becoming boring. This book was based on Frazier's column in the New Yorker and I fully believe that as individual columns, they work. If I read just a couple of these, I would have given them at least three star. But as a book, it was just too much for me. The stereotype became grindingly annoying, the outrageousness just a tad too overdone, and the effect as a whole was less entertaining than tiresome. Keep a good column as a column, I say!
What do You think about Deník Sprosté Matky (2013)?
HILARIOUS. Laughed so hard all the way through. Lots of cussing though.
—lbutler122
I am reading this, not listening to it. Hysterical so far!
—Rae
