HomeWhere Did I Go?: The Personal Chronicle of a Sahm (Stay at Home Mom), as she shares her fulfilling, frustrating and often comical journey from Womanhood to Motherhood. |
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 sadly disappointed Jan 15, 2010
i was hopeful for this book to be good, especially after reading some of the favorable reviews. now im wondering if those were written by her friends and family....let me at least admit that i havent finished reading it, and i wont. i found myself skipping paragraphs and then pages and then chapters. this book is more an autobiography than anything else. and i dont want to knock the author's life by any means, but my attention simply wasnt kept. this book promises to be about SAHMommyhood. instead she goes into why she quit her job, how she quit he job, what a schmuck her boss and coworker were etc, too many details, pages and pages of unnecessary info and backstory. then there's an entire chapter (or section?) on her various boyfriends and husbands etc. what does any of this have to do about SAHMs? its a personal account of her life, a very detailed personal account, that i wasnt looking to get to be honest.
moreover, i don t even know who published this book...there's absolutely no information on the copyright page, im thinking it was one of those do it yourself publishing houses. i honestly have no idea how a book like this would get into the mass market for purchase otherwise. i cannot imagine any professional editor would have let this go to press as is. she claims that she is a writer, but her thoughts ramble and the book is completely disorganized and does not make for a pleasant read at all. i got up to page 85 and i am going to return this book.
i was really disappointed bc i wanted to like this book so much. but the title and the blurb on the back are deceiving. yes, this woman has a story to tell about her life, both before and after becoming a mother. but so do millions of other women out there. and while i am sensitive to her personal struggles (she writes about losing her brother and i too lost my brother who was 30 at the time of his death) i simply could not get over the fact that this book was BORING. it was not compelling, it was more like she was writing it for the sake of writing it for herself, as opposed to entertaining others. and in that regard, people are better off sticking to journaling or blogging. yes, she injects humor into some things, but i didnt particularly find anything she has to say to be very witty or original. skip this book.
UPDATE: i did some searching online and turns out this is the only book (or story or article for that matter) this author has written and this book is indeed self-published. not to knock self-publishers, but one can easily recognize that the quality of writing spirals downward drastically due to the advent of self-publishing houses. to boot, i paid $19 for this crap! ugh, what a rip off.
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 Wanted to Support a Fellow SAHM, but This Falls Short Aug 18, 2009
While everything I read was interesting enough in its own right (it's hard not to be sympathetic to some of the life story mentioned), there were actually times I couldn't believe they published this book (I was really surprised when she pointed out that she was a writer). The writing was disjointed and its stream-of-consciousness style felt like it belonged more in a blog. Especially the first half of the book or so contained so many errors I stopped keeping track. It also just couldn't decide what it was supposed to be about; more than halfway through the book I felt like I was still waiting to get to the meat of the matter (which never really came at all, actually).
I am a SAHM with a 10-month old who worked for the first 7 months and I'm still struggling both with what that life looks like each day at home, and with how to keep "ME" intact, and I was hoping that even if this was one person's story and journey it would have something to share with me. It truly didn't. Maybe if you do not know ANYONE else who stays at home with their children this will help you feel that you're not alone, but frankly I don't even connect with her as a mother and so only came away feeling like I'd wasted time and money.
Sigh. Sorry B.
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Not so good Oct 11, 2008
This book is uninteresting. I find it boring to read and have decided to stop reading it all together. The author's writing style is very unprofessional- seems like she's writing an email. It's too informal and not very specific to motherhood, at least not in the first 70 pages.
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still unsure about it... Jun 22, 2008
I haven't gotten that far in the book... it just hasn't intrigued me that much. I thought that immediately I would be able to relate but it's very specific to just her situation. I will keep reading it though....and update my review if necessary.
 Loved it!!! Apr 25, 2008
I just loved this book! It was great to step through all of life's ups and downs, viewing everything through the eyes of a SAHM. As in life, there were things in the book that made me cry and things that made me laugh. Whatever you do, you CANNOT miss the section on "things that used to gross you out...." I laughed so hard I thought I was going to crack a rib! I'm not a mother yet, but this book gave me a peek at what's in store for me!!
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