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Water Cooler Diaries: Women across America Share Their Day at Work

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These women share their joys, worries, triumphs, fears, hopes and dreams...a day in their lives...from mundane to magnificent. It's a book you don't have to read from cover to cover in one sitting, but it's hard to put down once you start. And although it sounds hokey, I laughed, I cried and I related to every one of these women on some level.

Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work

I have been taking my time reading this book.

Why?

Because I am savoring every entry.

Water Cooler Diaries provides a sneak peek behind the private lives of women; What we do on a typical day and what we think.

The reader discovers that when the "typical working day" is explored in detail, there is humor, frustrations and a myriad of emotions that are evoked by exploring the inner thoughts women have throughout the day.

And in reading each woman's day diary entries, we look into the mirror and see a reflection of ourselves in the surgeon, the mechanic, the blogger, the mother, the janitor and so many more.

Well, okay... this reader didn't have that much in common with the sexy magician and her albino snake... but, boy haven't you ever wondered what it must be like to have a job like that? Never thought about the fact that she also has to clean up snake poop out of water bowls every morning.


There are 35 full day entries with hundreds of excerpts from women from all walks of life.

ENJOY!

This book is great! Every woman's story is fascinating. It's also loaded with hysterical excerpts from womens' lives. Full of insight, tenderness, comedy, and just plain truth.

Excellent!! I really enjoyed this book. It's wonderful for any woman trying to follow her own path and provides that "we're all in this together" mentality. I highly recommend it to women of all ages. It would make a fabulous gift for a woman graduating from college and just starting out in the workplace or anyone who is interested in reading about other people's lives. In addition to stories about their jobs, these women share their struggles with caregiving, finances, and juggilng everything in extremely personal and intimate ways.

This book is hard to put down!
- Laugh out loud moments is the truth.
- Amazed at those who were brave enough to be honest & wrote about their boss from 'he double-hockey-sticks'.
- Fascinated going behind the scenes of the 'not your everyday' type of jobs.
- Shocked some were sad by the end of their day, while they are on their road to success
- Cried & deeply touched by those who were going through very personal and hard times in their life (I still think of them)
- Then laughed again...

This book has such a variety of true everyday stories Great reading.

Fascinating day diaries from a REAL cross-section of American women! It's so interesting to me to read the mundane aspects of everyday life - the things we all do to get through the day - plus the very special and unique things we do that make each of us different. I feel very connected to these women after reading their days!

If you like reading diary-style blogs and mundane Twitter updates (like, what I had for lunch or what my boss just said), you'll definitely enjoy this book.

. . . and I'm not just saying that because I wrote the last chapter. (smile)

These witty and often moving diary entries from women of all walks of life offer a broad perspective of the triumphs, trials, stressors, struggles and small moments of joy that people everywhere are dealing with at any given time. The book's candid, inspirational accounts let us briefly walk a mile in someone else's shoes and remind us that, no matter what we're dealing with, we are not alone.

I got turned on to Joni B. Cole's day diary compilations when I hastily grabbed her previous book -- "This Day in the Life" -- in an airport bookstore as I was dashing to catch a four-hour flight. Once I opened it, I was hooked and couldn't put it down.

Like that book, "Water Cooler Diaries" is another fast, fun and delightfully voyeuristic read. It's an honor to be featured in it.