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Title: Good books aren't supposed to always be easy to like
Review: Some of the reviews for this book are amazingly harsh and mean-spirited. I think the book is an amazing first novel. As a mother of toddlers and a pediatrician, I could relate to the not always picture-perfect glimpses of the feelings that mothers often have. Being a woman, a wife, a mother and trying to be a person as well can be difficult; Beth is a realistic, wonderfully flawed character, not a supermom. There are no supermoms. I've read Mitchard in the Milwaukee paper for years and feel I know her; when you read her columns you understand immediately that 1)being a mother is the absolutely most important passion in her life and 2)it ain't always fun or pretty. I can't believe the reviewer who says there was too much description. Why would anyone read a book otherwise? That's what comic strips are for
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