Full name: Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood

Author: Anne Enright Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Parenting, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780099437628 9780393338287 0099437627 0393338282

Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. An antidote to the high-minded, polemical 'How-to' baby manuals, Making Babies also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. Anne Enright wrote the truth of it as it happened, because, for these months and years, it is impossible for a woman to lie. Similar books: Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk The Big Rumpus by Ayun Halliday Waiting for Birdy by Catherine Newman Life Laughs by Jenny McCarthy Small Animals by Kim Brooks Not Quite What I Was Planning by Rachel Fershleiser Baby Laughs by Jenny McCarthy Alternadad by Neal Pollack Minus Nine to One by Jools Oliver Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson Tough Sh*t by Kevin Smith It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong Little Labors by Rivka Galchen Mother Shock by Andrea J. Buchanan Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe Breeder by Ariel Gore