3.5
Baby Love
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From the international bestselling author of Black, White, and Jewish comes a "wonderfully insightful" (Associated Press) book that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade.
Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. As an adult she longed for a baby but feared losing her independence. In this very smart memoir, Walker explores some of the larger sociological trends of her generation while delivering her own story about the emotional and intellectual transformation that led her to motherhood.
Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. As an adult she longed for a baby but feared losing her independence. In this very smart memoir, Walker explores some of the larger sociological trends of her generation while delivering her own story about the emotional and intellectual transformation that led her to motherhood.
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3.5
“i read bits and pieces and then listened to the audiobook (for a class) during my drive back to school…the author can a bit contradicting at times and there were plenty of things that i just couldn’t understand (a generational thing, perhaps?)… i probably would not have read this book if it was not for a univ course… the form in the book was interesting though, like diary entries, but it’s a pet peeve of mine when writers don’t use a subject to start a sentence (i.e., “went to the store today,” instead of “i went to the store”), and walker did that A LOT.”
“Definitely the worst of the 6 or so parenting/motherhood books I’ve read this year. Skimmed after 20% mark. It was a lil insufferable for me to keep reading word for word.
The title, for one, is very deceiving. “Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence” would suggest, perhaps, that MAYBE the author was ambivalent about being a parent… right?? WRONG. I assumed this would be a memoir about a woman who went back and forth and after some introspection decided to have a child and would go through her thought process.
Instead, it opens up with how she’s always known she wanted kids”
About Rebecca Walker
Rebecca Walker has received numerous awards and accolades for her writing and activism. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and publications; in addition to the international bestseller Black, White, and Jewish, her books include Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence, and the anthologies To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, which has become a standard text in gender studies courses around the world, and What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future. A popular speaker at universities and in business settings, Walker teaches the art of memoir at workshops and writing conferences internationally. She lives in Hawaii.
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