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"Jennifer Coburn's Tales From the Crib is a deliciously fun, laugh-out-loud read about one woman's journey toward motherhood. You won't be able to put this book down until you arrive at the final, satisfying page."
- Emily Giffin, author of Something Blue
"I absolutely loved this book. Jennifer Coburn has written a smart, modern day tale that will have you laughing out loud through every delicious page."
- Karen Quinn, author of The Ivy Chronicles
Reading about Lucy Klein is like rooting for your funny best friend. An uplifting, highly amusing tale that will have readers laughing, crying, but most of all staying with this heroine because they want her to find her happily ever after."
- Adele Parks, author of Playing Away
Talk about bad timing!
When Lucy Klein gets her positive pregnancy results, she’s overjoyed. She and her husband Jack have been trying to get pregnant for years throughout their rocky marriage. But before she can tell him the big news, Jack has something he needs to announce – he wants a divorce! Rather than split up, Lucy and Jack decide to live together as friends. This way, they can share expenses and parenting responsibilities. Co-parenting is a fine deal for Jack who is back in the dating scene by Lucy’s third trimester of pregnancy, but is a frustrating one for Lucy who has unfulfilled sexual fantasies about every man from restaurant delivery boys to puppeteers.
Meanwhile, Lucy’s mother is taking over her life. The grand dame of Planet Earth, Anjoli frequently visits her daughter to share her own brand of maternal wisdom.
As Anjoli leaves her Drama Queen bookstore to “help” Lucy with baby Adam, the new grandmother has an affair with baby’s pediatrician, hosts two weddings (including cousin Kimmy’s wedding to herself), and constantly frets about which kind of pie to serve guests. With a cast of family and friends from Lucy’s Jewish aunts to Junior League neighbor, Candace, Tales From the Crib is the story of how one baby can bring people together – so they can drive each other nuts!
This is the story of Lucy Klein, a woman whose pregnancy goes wrong in every way imaginable. Her husband dumps her after her first trimester, yet wants to have a "platonic marriage". She develops Bell's palsy, which makes her face crooked. And she has to put up with the girlfriends her husband brings home (they have agreed that they can see other people).
Despite the depressing-sounding premise, this book often made me laugh out loud. Lucy is a spunky, zany character whose friends are equally outrageous. One of her friends is the producer of a TV show, Real Confessions, that airs Catholic confessions on Fox and enrages the Catholic church and almost everyone else.
This is one of those books that is more about madcap happenings and crazy humor than a conventional plot. The plot arc between Lucy and her husband is ultimately less interesting than all the unusual events that take place in Lucy's life. However, the book has plenty to keep you interested, even if Lucy and her husband's relationship is not foremost among them. If you want a laugh, read this book. I think Jennifer Coburn's books just keep getting better, and this is no exception.
This started out as a strong idea, Lucy finds out she is pregnant just as her husband announces he wants a divorce. They decide to open-marriage/co-parent and everyone wins...well, not so much Lucy.
While she battles a plethora of complications and illnesses her husband is off having a good time dating. After the baby is born and she is sleepless, in pain, and well, just plain new mom overwhelmed he is having a good time sleeping with his girlfriend in their house. This type of co parenting is better for the kid than divorce? Wow. I found the plot a stretch and really rolled my eyes at Lucy's "quickie" experience.
The whole breast feeding, sore nipple stuff was too much. Pages and pages of it, like this was the only stressful, hard, interesting part of dealing with this baby. I was ready for a chapter on colic just so I wouldn't have to hear anymore about her nipples.
The ending let me down. As hard as the rest of it had been for Lucy, if just seemed to resolve itself too easily. The humor I expected from reading the synopsis and other reviews was just not there. After the first couple of chapters the humor parts dwindled down to near nothing.
The supporting characters veered between heartwarming and fun---I'd rather have read a whole book on Rita and Bernice--all the way to shallow and bizarre, Anjoli and Kimmy ended up caricatures in the attempt to show how different Lucy was from them.
There were some formatting errors that were distracting and annoying. Words were broken up causing minor confusion and spacing was missing quite often in dialogue. This second problem was both more prevalent and more annoying as it made it harder to track who was talking.
I could not put this book down, I started reading it on my lunch break and was five minutes late getting back to work, I burnt dinner and stayed up waaaay past my bedtime. I had to find out what would happen between Lucy and Jack. This is by far the best book by Jennifer Coburn. The story was well written and all the characters seemed true to life. Even her over the top mother!! If you enjoy this book try Wonderboy by Fiona Gibson.
Jennifer Coburn is an award-winning journalist who has written for magazines and newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Jennifer, a native New Yorker and a graduate of the University of Michigan, has four published novels and is a contributing author to four anthologies.
She currently lives in San Diego with her husband, William, and their daughter, Katie.
Jennifer can be reached directly at Jennifer@JenniferCoburn.com or at facebook.com/JenniferCoburnBooks
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