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Tracy Engelbrecht

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http://www.goodreads.com/tracyengelb

born

September 06, 1978 in South Africa

gender

female

website

http://youngmomsupport.co.za

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Biographies & Memoirs, Parenting & Families, Humor

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January 2011

About this author

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Tracy Engelbrecht is a writer and mother of two. She lives in Cape Town and doesn’t grow freakishly large prizewinning vegetables, but she does do a nice lasagne and her children aren’t in therapy yet, so things are going well. She hardly ever drinks pina coladas or gets caught in the rain, but she’s working on it.

That’s the official story. The truth is, of course, much less exciting.

I was once The Girl Who Couldn’t Say No, but these days I’m mom and eternal tea-maker to a teenage son, and mommy and copious cuddler of a tween daughter – both unique specimens of delicious humanity, way cooler than you’d expect with me as a mom.

I’m also blogger, a columnist and a Tweeter-in-training. What else? Ah, yes. Thinker, reader, pudding-fantasist, cha...more

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Meeting report: 12 May 2012

Did the meeting solo this week as my mom was sick. She’d made us a gorgeous pot of soup (which she complained she didn’t like as there “was no taste”. Meanwhile it was her tastebuds that were dysfunctional due to the flu). Everybody loved the soup and tucked in – was nice for a wintry day.

Gave away 3 more blankets which Joyce had made for us- the lucky winning moms were very happy – somewhere t...

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The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

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Tracy Engelbrecht is currently reading:

Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot #24)

by Agatha Christie

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Tracy Engelbrecht is currently reading: Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot #24) by Agatha Christie	My rating:
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Tracy Engelbrecht gave to: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Tracy Engelbrecht gave to: The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Tracy Engelbrecht gave to: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Tracy Engelbrecht liked April's review of The Girl Who Couldn't Say No: " As Comic-Book Guy from 'The Simpsons' might say, Worst. Book. Ever. Okay, maybe not EVER but it's pretty awful. And I'm never getting that time back. I'm not a single mother - but I did have an unplanned child at an inopportune time. The woman may... " Read more of this review »
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Tracy Engelbrecht gave to: Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot #20) by Agatha Christie read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Tracy Engelbrecht gave to: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Tracy Engelbrecht gave to: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle	My rating:
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Tracy Engelbrecht gave to: The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Tracy Engelbrecht added: Ivanhoe by Walter Scott read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Quotes by Tracy Engelbrecht

“Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment.”
― Tracy Engelbrecht, The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

tags: brand , enlightenment , meaning-of-life , shoes

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“I grew up with an anorexic self-esteem, minus the sparkling personality and self-confidence,”
― Tracy Engelbrecht

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