I was going to wait until I’d actually potty trained my kid to review this, but 1) I need to clear my backlog of reviews, 2) I’m probably not going to get around to potty training in the next two weeks, and 3) my kid has some special needs that may make potty training harder, so even if Glowacki’s method doesn’t work for us it’s not necessarily an indictment of her method. So here we go. Basically the author runs some kind of potty […]
Not just a plot twist, but an entire genre twist!
Full disclosure: I don’t know how to talk about this book without spoiling something about it, but it will be a general spoiler, not specific at all and I think that knowing this thing going in may actually improve your enjoyment of it (it would’ve improved mine, anyway). This is another recommendation from my grandmother, aka the elderly badkittyuno, and it was a major improvement over the last one. (If you’re assuming it’s a medical memoir like I did, nope. It’s a novel.) Dr. Heaton […]
Just your standard A.J. Jacobs book.
A.J. Jacobs has a formula, and I guess it’s working for him. He spends a year or two of his life devoted completely to “living” a concept, and he writes a book about it. In The Know-It-All, he reads the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica. In The Year of Living Biblically, he adheres literally to the Bible for a year. In Drop Dead Healthy, he spends a couple years doing everything that’s recommended to be healthy. To me, his books are like Mary Roach books if instead […]
Guess I shouldn’t judge a book by its corny title.
Well, this book was totally not what I expected. There’s a particular genre of book about certain home-related endeavors…I guess I would call it the “Christian blogger” genre. I’m a Christian and I read plenty of blogs, in fact, you could say that some of my best friends are Christian bloggers so obviously I couldn’t possibly have a bias against them – but I still find the entire genre incredibly uninspiring. You can find them about marriage, organizing, homeschooling, parenting, even home decor – do […]
Don’t make it weird.
What a hilarious little book. Toddlers are Assholes: It’s Not Your Fault is pretty standard to the “parenting humor” genre, but it really worked for me more than most. I’m not a very laugh-out-loud type of person but there were more than a few times that I was honest to God fighting to control my laughter so the shaking didn’t wake up my own little asshole, hogging my bed late at night. However, there are certain conditions under which this book should be read. Read this […]
A great book for a VERY niche audience (of which I am not technically a part).
The title of this book is a bit misleading, so let’s spend this review focusing on what exactly this book is and is not. It is not: A crash course on how to go about practicing Natural Family Planning (widely misunderstood to be “the rhythm method”) in accordance with Catholic teaching. NFP is generally used to avoid pregnancies. I suppose you could technically use it to achieve one, but most often when you’re talking about NFP you’re talking about using it to space pregnancies. This […]
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