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As announced the other day, it is book club time again at Silicon Valley Moms Group and New Jersey Moms Blog is hosting. Today, we have been "invited" by author Lisa Garrigues' book Writing Motherhood to write about one of two topics:
It is book club time again at Silicon Valley
Moms Group. New Jersey Moms
Blog will be hosting this time around as we take inspiration from the book
Writing Motherhood by the
amazing author Lisa
Garrigues. This book is very different, as Lisa truly is a muse and
encourages us readers not just to read, but to write our motherhood experiences.
For ourselves, for our kids, we are "invited" to recall the small moments, the
big emotions, the lessons learned, the inevitable changes. Writing Motherhood
guides moms in their efforts to journal their own trip through motherhood
via a Mother's Notebook. Each chapter of the book is set up as a lesson with
tips and examples at the end for us to do our own writing.
So....for a change, we will be doing a "project" type book club. Instead of just reading, we will be inspired and invited to write. Join us this coming Tuesday, June 17th and see what Writing Motherhood inspires us to share. Inspired as well? Go to your local bookstore or buy the book online and start your own Mother's Notebook.
Join us today as we discuss The Other Mother by Gwendolyn Gross. This is the first time that contributors of Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Chicago Moms Blog, DC Metro Moms Blog and NYC Moms Blog (along with the rest our friends throughout the blogsphere) will be discussing, reviewing and critiquing a book, together. Please use the comment section below to share your thoughts and feedback. If you have written a post about this book on your personal site, please make sure to leave that link in the comment section!
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Apparently, I don't love my baby enough. I don't think that's what Gwendolyn Gross meant for me to take away from her entertaining novel, The Other Mother, but unfortunately, that's the overwhelming message I got. Maybe it's just me.
The book features two protagonists -- one woman is Thea, a stay at home mother (SAHM) of three kids, and the other is her new neighbor Amanda, a working mom, about to have her first child. The two women make different choices about their parenting / work lives, but they are united in one thing, their rather desperate love of their children, and their tremendous guilt about spending time away from them. And that's the part I didn't get.
Continue reading "Book Club: The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross" »
Yes, we are following in the footsteps of our beloved Oprah! Really! A bunch of contributors from Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Chicago Moms Blog, DC Metro Moms Blog, and the new New York City Moms Blog have been reading a book called The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross.
The book juxtoposes a stay-at-home mom and a working mom. Of course, we will all have a lot to say about it! So read along if you like and join us on Monday, October 29th for a lively "book club" discussion. Until then....happy reading!
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