Tales From The Crib by Jennifer Coburn
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Book Reviews of Tales From The Crib
Book Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book. I have never read anything by Jennifer Coburn before and I really enjoyed the humor and insight. Good, easy, summer read especially for those who are expecting or have small children.Book Review: Great read!
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought the book on a whim. What a wonderful surprise! Being a new mom, this made me laugh in several places. Just what I needed. Would recommend to any mom or mom-to-be!Book Review: Not her best work
Summary: 3 Stars
I have read Jennifer Coburn's other novels and loved them but I wasn't overly crazy about this one. The premise is intriguing, what happens to a couple when one wants to be divorced and it turns out the wife is pregnant. Jennifer could have gone many different ways and I'm not sure she went the right way. It has a good ending but getting there was kind of difficult to go through. Lucy's mother, Anjoli, got on my nerves pretty fast within the first half of the novel and before long, Lucy was starting to get annoying too. To me, Lucy is just not a character I could identify with. It's not so much her situation that got to me but her personality. I didn't think she was that funny and that became hard since her character was supposed to use humor as a defense.
The story seemed to go one a little too long for me. I think I could have shaved off some of the things that happened in the story and I think it would have made the book a little better for me.
So it was an okay book but I think that Jennifer Coburn has done much better work in the past. And I like her writing enough that I'll keep reading her future novels
Book Review: good read
Summary: 4 Stars
*Spoilers*
I'm surprised that I gave this author another try seeing how I didn't like Reinventing Mona. However, this time around I truely enjoyed this book though the author did gloss over some things that needed serious addressing. When Lucy's husband drops this whopper of a bombshell on the day she about to make her big announcement, she truely does take this major lifestyle change in stride. Sure she was disturbed, but the author has to know her audience wants more than what was offered to a husband who ran out and moved a girlfriend into their home and practically play family right in front of her with her long awaited child. Then you have that the title of the book is totally misleading. Little Adam is pretty much a stage prop. He was always conveniently off-loaded with a family, friend or fill in the blank. This book is just about one crazy year. At anytime, the author will take you on irrelevent journeys that led to nowhere. But for me, it's a book that never ceases being funny. I enjoyed Anjoli, the aunts, Kimmy and the platoon of married men her mother dated. (Jack, I could do without-but you can't have everything.) My only real eye roll was who on earth forgets that they invested in Microsoft? But anyhoot, this was a very enjoyable read and I'm happy I gave this author another try.
Book Review: As always, very entertaining...
Summary: 4 Stars
Jack and Lucy finally get pregnant after a number of miscarriages, and in the same breath, Jack wants to break up. But, he's not a terrible guy, he wants to help raise the child and still live together. Though Lucy is still in love with him, she reluctantly agrees, and she finds herself keeping that aspect of their marriage a secret.
As other readers have mentioned, it's not really about the pregnancy or having a baby. Baby Jack doesn't do too much during the book except for sleep and cry. It's not about raising the baby, it's more about what happens to her when she goes through a life change. She also deals with her strange, dynamic mother and befriends her separated husbands new girlfriend.
Jennifer Coburn has a tendency to write books that draw readers in from the first page! After all, who writes books about women trying to set up their soon to be ex-husband with another woman? (The Wife of Reilly) Her subject matter can never be considered boring or run of the mill. Though sometimes, the subplots get a little too far fetched and out of hand for me, and I found a couple of typos, there are always more pros than cons for me. I will continue to be a life long reader because her books never fail to be original and humorous.