Title: Too Moon-eyed for Me
Product review: I read this book on the basis of the rave reviews here. Frankly, I was disappointed. I found it tediously self-indulgent and self-absorbed. She goes on and on and ON about how enraptured she is with her bambina, and yet every now again she lets slip something like how "they lost their regular sitter" when the baby was nine months old. A sitter! Yet she has said over and over how incredibly attached and preoccupied whe is with this infant! In that way she reminds me of the aunt in Proust's Swann's Way who claimed she never ever slept and yet would sometimes forget and say something about waking up or nodding off, or of a dream she had had.Block is so totally focused on her feelings and her body that in some ways the baby is almost incidental to the story.
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