Rockabye: A Young Mom's Journey from Wild to Child
by Rebecca Woolf (Goodreads author!)
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Read in April, 2008
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Wow. I am the first to write a review of this book on goodreads.com, really?
I have been a loyal reader of Rebecca Woolf's since back in the days of the Pointy Toe Shoe Factory. This has been a journey that many of us have been riding in the Rebecca's VW carseat on the information superhighway for many years.
I think that there are a lot of us who have followed along through the emotional last few years of her life feeling a bit voyeuristic. Other times I have felt like a passenger, a wel...more
I have been a loyal reader of Rebecca Woolf's since back in the days of the Pointy Toe Shoe Factory. This has been a journey that many of us have been riding in the Rebecca's VW carseat on the information superhighway for many years.
I think that there are a lot of us who have followed along through the emotional last few years of her life feeling a bit voyeuristic. Other times I have felt like a passenger, a wel...more
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Read in April, 2008
When I bought Rebecca Woolf's "Rockabye: From Wild to Child", I was sold a misleading bill of goods. Like Neal Pollack's "Alternadad", Woolf's memoir was marketed as the story of a party-all-nighter's quest to transition to parenthood without losing her innate coolness. And like Pollack's memoir, "Rockabye" turned out to be so much more. It's a heartfelt exploration of a new parent's discovery of her heart and soul, awakened by the birth of her child, and how, in...more
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Read in April, 2008
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How can I adequately describe this original, talented writer, or her impressive first memoir? The only possible comparison is that Rebecca Woolf is the Chrissie Hynde of narrative nonfiction. (And no woman--to date--plays the guitar better or loves her child as much as Chrissie does. Remember the songs, "My Baby" or "Show Me"??) Woolf wields a mighty pen, and I suspect that she will be a force to contend with in the future, having a long and fruitful career as a writer. I me...more
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Read in April, 2008
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moms, anyone unsure of becoming a mom
I read the author's blog and was excited to read the book. I needed a break from the "heavy" (ahem, somewhat boring) reading I've been doing and this was just the thing! I haven't finished a book so quickly in...I don't know how long! I had to force myself to put it down and go to sleep (I read at bedtime) and still managed to finish it in near-record time. It's a great memoir of a young mother, struggling with identity and motherhood. While I couldn't relate to the unplanned aspe...more
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Read in April, 2008
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anyone and everyone
If you were the type of person to judge a book by it's cover (as I often do), you would at first glance think this book is about a wild young woman who becomes a mother. It is. But it's so much more. It's not just for young mothers (expected or unexpected)--it's for older mothers, for never-been mothers, for fathers, for architects, for lawyers, for fast food workers, for ANYONE. Rebecca Woolf's writing lures you in immediately and doesn't cease the whole way through. She's honest, sometime...more
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I am addicted to the Girl's Gone Child blog. Not only does she have one of the cutest kids ever, Rebecca Woolf writes with a passion and a clarity of thought on a number of issues related to parenting, motherhood, sexuality, and life itself. Her book was good, but left me wanting more. While I don't agree on everything she has to say re: parenting, nor do I relate to all of her issues (she is ten years younger than me and many of her preoccupations are of a twenty-something woman, not that th...more
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Read in April, 2008
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girlfriends
If you are a mom, or just a girl that might someday want to be a mom.. or just a girl having the time of her life in her 20s.. you'll want to read Becca's memoir. Truly, you'll feel like you know her with the way this book is so easy to read. It is both comical in the way she says things that everyone thinks but never says.. as much as it is emotionally heart-wrenching in the way you can feel her embarassment, pain, and joy through her candid writing.
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Read in April, 2008
This book is about a woman's journey to maintain her own identity while embracing a new identity as a mother. This book is sincere and insightful.
"No. That is not the world we live in. That is how we are told we must live in order to get by, and unfortunately, no one wants to speak up anymore. Is it possible that that "no child left behind" is just a gentler way of saying that no child will have the freedom to wander away? I stop laughing. 'Actually, no. Conformity is not the...more
"No. That is not the world we live in. That is how we are told we must live in order to get by, and unfortunately, no one wants to speak up anymore. Is it possible that that "no child left behind" is just a gentler way of saying that no child will have the freedom to wander away? I stop laughing. 'Actually, no. Conformity is not the...more
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Read in April, 2008
An amazing recollection of an unplanned pregnancy. Rebecca tells her story with Technicolor description and takes you along for the ups and downs of pregnancy, parenthood and marriage. Her honesty is raw and vivid. A should read for anyone who has been faced with an unexpected pregnancy and ended up with an unexpected life.
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Read in April, 2008
REALLY looking forward to this one....
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Attention, publishers: Blogosphere ubiquity does not a good author make. I'm not even sure why I wanted to read this in the first place, but at least it's allowed me to recognize self-masturbatory illations in my own writing.
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Read in May, 2008
You can read my review of Rebecca Woolf's excellent mommy memoir in The Oregonian.
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Read in April, 2008
I am a big fan of Woolf's bog Girls Gone Child and adored this book. A great memior and journey. Something as a new-ish Mom I could relate to each and very story.
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