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Sto caricando le informazioni... Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting! (originale 2008; edizione 2008)di Sandra Tsing Loh (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaMother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting! di Sandra Tsing Loh (2008)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is the third Loh collection I've read, and I subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly, so I already knew I loved her writing and sense of humor. There was much less repetition than I expected -- there would periodically be a paragraph that I recognized from a magazine article, but then it would go somewhere new. Yes, it's self-indulgent and not everyone enjoys that. But observations can be at their zingiest (or most poignant) when you have plenty of personal context. So weird (but neat) to see the same therapist from her early-90s books. Her career experiences do make me glad I never attempted a creative field and thus haven't had the major emotional highs and lows. And it's looking very possible that, like her, I'll end up with two tiny children in my 40s and in the LA area (despite being currently single and in North Dakota) so that connection was neat. All the descriptions of the different parts of Los Angeles (like on the map) went over my head but my SoCal boyfriend found them hilarious. This book is deeper than her radio commentaries. The ideas are more fully fleshed than her short articles in the Atlantic. The bittersweet humor is still there and I laughed out loud several times. But, this is a meaty book that deals with serious themes about community, bigotry, angst, money and the meaning of life. I loved it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
This is a story about the year I exploded into flames. Which turns out to be more common than you'd think, among forty-something humans. Yea, we can hold it together in our thirties, with a raft of hair products and semi-tall nonfat half-caf beverages and much brisk walking to a lot of interesting appointments. Come the forties, though, cracks begin to appear. One staggers suddenly along life's path; gourmet coffee splats; the wig slips askew. In other words, my friends, THE WHEELS COME OFF. Sandra Tsing Loh is the fiercest, funniest, and most incredibly honest and self-deprecating voice to emerge from the "mommy war" debates. In Mother on Fire, she fires away with her trademark hilarious satire of societal and personal irks large and small, including limo liberals who preach the virtues of public school but send their children to fashionable private ones, the proliferation of costly skin-care products that just don't cut it, society's obsession with aromatherapy, her Chinese father's disdain for her life as an artist, and $10 Target pants ("Are they running pants, exercise pants, pajama pants?") that are the ubiquitous Mother of Small Children uniform. Prompted by her own midlife crisis, Loh throws her frantic energy not into illicit affairs, shopping binges, or exotic trips, but into the harrowing heart of contemporary, dysfunctional L.A. life when she realizes that she can't afford private school for her daughter, and her only alternative is her neighborhood's public school, Guavatorina, where most of the kids speak Spanish and qualify for free lunches. In a theater-of-the-absurd-style odyssey, Mother on Fire documents Loh's "year of living dangerously" among pompous school admissions officials, lactose-intolerant, Prius-driving parents, mafia dons of public radio, vindictive bosses, and old friends with new money as she first kisses ass--and then kicks it. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Chapter one begins with Laura teaching an English class at Mount St. Mary's College...and going off on some tangent about Count Vronsky & Anna Karenina dancing the "MAZURKA" then switching to Mr. Darcy, switching to 40 midlife crisis "THE WHEELS COME OFF", switching to an Ophra book her husband bought her, switching to Miracle Bras & Wonder Bras, switching to her wrinkles...... YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never got past page 15...and I will tell you it took quite a bit of effort for me to get that far!
When she lost her hormones, it seems as if she also lost her sense of what is considered good writing.
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