Ketçap Bir Sebzedir Ve Annelerin Kendilerine Söylediği Diğer Yalanlar (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
wait, what? HOW does this book have such a high rating here? the author must have a million friends on the internet that gave it an inflated score, because in NO WORLD is this a four-star-average book. i was actually going to give it two stars, because kudos for writing any book at all when you have three kids, but i felt duty-bound to mark it down to try to balance the over-inflation a little.this is supposed to be funny essays about motherhood. just the kind of thing i like. i read good reviews, promising laughs. i usually take that stuff with a grain of salt because it takes a lot for a book to make me laugh, but i still enjoy the "humorous essay" genre.this book is not funny. this author straight up can barely write.this is one of those books where the author thanks one of her friends in the acknowledgements for their help copy editing & proofreading & i just want to crawl into a hole on behalf of everyone because this book is a complete mess. words are misspelled, grammar is nothing but a vague concept, homonyms are abused...in the very first essay, the author refers to her "daughter, who is two-years-old." yes, she hyphenates it like that. look, maybe you can slog through 200 pages of this kind of brutal assault to the eyeballs & walk away focusing on the content, but i cannot. particularly when the content is also so boring & not funny.she calls her boobs "the big berthas" & her vagina her "britney". YOU'VE BEEN FOREWARNED. if this is something you find tolerable, you are made of sterner stuff than i. the first time she mentioned her "britney," i was like, "oh, wow. there's a 'joke' that didn't land. surely that won't happen again." BUT IT DID. SO MANY TIMES. it was painful. at a certain point, i realized that i was continuing to read just because i was morbidly curious about how much worse it could get. i truly don't understand how this book got published. i looked at the author's blog, where she wrote, "st. martin's press signed me to a two-book deal. can you believe it?!" no. i literally cannot. put down the crack pipe, st. martin's. you are going to need your crack money on hand to hire the ARMY of copy editors that will be required to turn this author's prose into something quasi-readable. As a mom I can sympathize with some of the things that she went through in the book. Parts of it were funny, but all of the "southern" slag drove me nuts. There was only one point in time that the book made me laugh and I think that was a fluke. I had never heard of this author before I got a copy of the book, and while it was well written and edited there was to much juvenile humor in it for me. I am not referring to what the kids did and said. What I am referring to is the fact that as a nurse she could not call female body parts by the appropriate name. The best part of the book for me, the one part that showed me a glimpse of the author was the last chapter. That was well written and spoke of emotions more than frustration.
What do You think about Ketçap Bir Sebzedir Ve Annelerin Kendilerine Söylediği Diğer Yalanlar (2014)?
Laugh out loud funny! Quick read...I loved it!
—monna
Light hearted, funny read until the last part.
—jamie
A hilarious book that any mom would enjoy. :)
—Sophia
