Intentions vs Reality

A while back I wrote a sort of review on Mayim Bialik’s book “Beyond the Sling” and listed my parenting intentions once becoming a mom. While those intentions are still at the forefront of my thoughts, reality also set in and things are not going exactly as planned; and that’s ok!

So what has changed?

Book Review: Beyond The Sling

I think we have all come across numerous parenting buzz words over the years, but there is one in particular I want to discuss.

According to Wikipedia, “Attachment parenting (AP), a phrase coined by pediatrician William Sears, is a parenting philosophy based on the principles of attachment theory in developmental psychology. According to attachment theory, the child forms a strong emotional bond with caregivers during childhood with lifelong consequences.”

Book Review: Unsung Lullabies

“When you are diagnosed with infertility, you are inducted into a club
you never dreamed you would be forced to join: the ' I can't have a baby club'…” 

Unsung Lullabies

There are many books out there about infertility, but there are few I have found written by authors who have actually experienced it for themselves. Everything I have felt (or feared) they described: the jealousy, feelings of failure, sadness of loss and the overwhelming frustration that comes with it all. They even go into the male side of infertility, which I have rarely seen covered.

Having the courage and the insight to speak about something most people choose to hide or ignore is commendable! Just the first chapter, “This Isn’t How It Was Supposed to Be” describes the whole situation so well. For anyone going through this, this book is a must read. It is very well written, touching and true… just don’t read it in public and make sure you have lots of tissues ready!

Once Upon A Time… Meets Frozen? Why!?

Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I love classic fairy tales, and not just their Disney counterparts but the original stories too. I also have a small collection of fairy tale re-writes that I enjoyed and that is why the TV series, Once Upon A Time, initially appealed to me.

From Chick-Lit to Erotica? Part II

So, I did it. I read them; all three of them. What am I talking about? The “Fifty Shades” trilogy by E.L. James of course! What are my thoughts? Well, for starters, they certainly do not live up to all of their hype, that’s for sure!

In my opinion they were OK, no more than that. Definitely not the page turner I had anticipated and the storyline was a bit unrealistic but they ARE fiction after all. The main thing that bothered me was the writing itself. The level and/or style of writing which the author uses are horribly repetitive and amateur! As one review said, if you were to pick one of the many “repeated phrases” used in this book and drink every time you read it you would be blackout drunk by chapter 4! Thankfully, I got used to the writing by the end of the first book which made it easier to read the remaining two.

As for the sex scenes, this is most likely where all of the hype came from I assume. The scenes were probably quite shocking to A LOT of people. But, after an average of one scene per chapter I found myself getting quite bored with them and wanting to just skip through and get to the story amidst all of the sex. As you all know, I have now learned that I don’t mind a good sex scene thrown in now and then, but when the book has a higher percentage of smut than plot it is a little discouraging. In the last book I would literally jump through pages to get back to the storyline because I didn’t care for the garbage anymore.

I think this is a series that most will either love or hate, but I am still somewhere in the middle. Once I was reading I didn’t want to put it down, but after putting it down I would go days without picking it up again. It kept me busy on the bus to work and waiting for appointments and such, but I wouldn’t read them again.

It’s back to chick-lit for me for a bit! Oh, and to the “Fifty Shades” readers… Laters!