True Mom Confessions: Real Moms Get Real [Paperback]

Romi Lassally (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 7, 2009

Mothers' hilarious, outrageous, heartfelt admissions

"Sometimes I lock myself in the bathroom."

"I put an educational DVD on so I could have sex. It wasn't with my husband."

Romi Lassally provides a judgment-free zone where women can reveal their mommy misdemeanors. From not feeling like cleaning up vomit in the middle of the night, to barking something completely inappropriate to the children, to wanting to be pawed by hands that aren't covered in jelly, the confessions pour in daily.

Heartfelt and hilarious, naughty and nasty, frank and outrageous, the confessions culled together for this book represent the best-or the worst?-of those humbling hidden secrets of motherhood in all its glorious messiness as improvisation and triage. They dare to suggest that it's okay for moms to make mistakes, to have unkind thoughts, to publicly or privately embarrass themselves-and above all to be human.

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About the Author

Romi Lassally is the co-creator of the popular website and the founding editor of the Lifestyles section of The Huffington Post. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 266 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (April 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425226042
• ISBN-13: 978-0425226049
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #767,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Short and eye opening, April 20, 2009

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Veriance (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: True Mom Confessions: Real Moms Get Real (Paperback)

I enjoyed this book, as the mother of a toddler and a tween I could identify with many of the confessions in the book. Either "wow, I've felt exactly that" or "no way would I do that, could I do that"

It was a fine book, but I am giving it only three stars because about 100 of the 200+ pages are 1 liners taken from the website. I read the whole thing cover to cover in about an hour. While the book is listed at 288 pages, it's more like 90 pages if you take out all the snippets from her website.

If I'd bought the book I'd be giving it two stars. Thankfully it was a gift.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars So-So, August 12, 2009

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Denise10s (Reston, VA United States) - See all my reviews

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This is a cute gift-book maybe for a mom or mom-to-be, but not really a "good read" so to speak. There is a lot of wasted space. At least 50% of the pages have only one or two sentences on them. There was a lot that I could not relate to since it had to do with hubbies, breastfeeding and what your body looks like after giving birth and I'm single and adopting.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disenchanted Mom, March 29, 2011

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Dawn M. Desilets "gottibooks" (ohio) - See all my reviews
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I think this book is really bad, every whole page had about 1 to 2 sentences on it, I thought it was going to have actual stories in it. It could have been about 20 pages long!