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Title: Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life : Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child by FAULKNER FOX ISBN: 1-4000-4939-3 Publisher: Harmony Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (58 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not what I needed
Comment: I had read exerpts of this book and thought I would love it. I did not.I understood her big "why" questions as well as frustration with the 50/50 husband situation. But I got such a bitter, angry, unresolved tone from her writing that I couldn't enjoy the book. The next week I read You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman by Judith Newman. It made me laugh while looking at realities of motherhood. It helped me to regain my own sense of humor in the midst of the motherhood issue.
Rating: 5
Summary: Important book
Comment: This book kept me riveted from the beginning to the end; I could easily empathize with her own experience of juggling the roles of mother and wife and writer and teacher. Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life is a well-written book -- part memoir and part social commentary -- without ever being heavy-handed. Fox lets us in on her own adjustment to motherhood and parenthood, and with complete openness and honesty, questions much of her experience. She asks "Why?" when most of us moan, complain or simply accept the inequalities and difficulties of the job.
I loved her descriptions and dialogues with other parents and friends, her laments of not finding like-minded mothers in the predominantly white, wealthy Mommy and Me classes offered where she lived. I found solace that someone as sleep-deprived as I was able to write a cohesive personal story without slapping on a pat ending and telling us just what it is that society needs to change to make inequalities in motherhood go away.
The questions she asks should resonate with mothers in the U.S. and hopefully spark on-going discussions and dialogue. My friends and I are already talking about some of the themes and ideas brought forth in this excellent book and I look forward to more people discovering it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that finally says what mothers all over feel
Comment: This book is a wonderful expose of motherhood. I felt so relieved when I read this that someone finally had the courage to write this book. I cried while reading it because I knew that I was not alone. Although, I found her tone a bit angry at times I understood that her tone was just the deep conflict she felt between motherhood and self coming through. A very honest and thought provoking book.
I found it interesting while reading the reviews that most people either gave this book 5 stars or 1 star. I think that most people who did not like this book are afraid to admit that they feel the way she did or they have not realized this. It is a truth that is tough to admit to ourselves in our quietest moments, much less read on paper. I think that in many ways Faulkner broke the unwritten rules of motherhood that we can't admit how we feel and we definatley can't write about it.
I was especially touched by the chapter on her second birth and felt that she really said what alot of women wonder when they are separate from their child after birth. I didn't get to hold my son for 36 hours after his birth due to him being on a ventilator. My first birth was an unmedicated birth where she was put on my chest 2 seconds after birth. I felt Faukner really described how I felt about my births very well. I think alot of women are afraid to admit how much they wonder how separation affects their relationship and how much it bothers them. We are told that we shouldn't be upset because we have a heathly baby (thank goodness my son is healthy now), but still we are.
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Title: Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It by Andrea J. Buchanan ISBN: 1580050824 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women by Susan Douglas, Meredith Michaels ISBN: 0743259998 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Toddler: Real-life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love by Jennifer Margulis ISBN: 158005093X Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life by Daphne de Marneffe, Daphne de Marneffe ISBN: 0316059951 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 22 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Big Rumpus: A Mother's Tale from the Trenches by Ayun Halliday ISBN: 1580050719 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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