Read some more of
Otherhood before I went to sleep last night and woke up too early.
Otherhood really bothers me. On one hand, I find some interesting critiques of assumptions about women "of a certain age" who haven't become mothers yet. (And I just said "yet!" Is that telling?) But, huge swathes of the book seem to be dedicated to chronicling some upper class women's incredibly vapid conversations about dating. I am about halfway through it. I will continue reading it, but I am less than captivated by most of the dating stories...Oh, good grief.
From a far more articulate review:
"I think that
Otherhood
would
greatly benefit from a lot more psychological content in place of the
innumerable girls’ night out rants with Notkin’s glamorous, successful
friends."
http://christiethinks.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/otherhood-melanie-notkin/
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