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    <body><![CDATA[The title warned me that Askowitz is miserable and lonely, but I also found her unlikeable. Maybe because I was implicated in myriad of things and people she criticizes in the book, maybe because there's so little redeeming about her experience, the journal format doesn't go deep enough for me to fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38676575">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I completely identified with this book.  Of course I'm not pregnant, but my body seems to think I am and I seem to have all of the horrible hormonal feelings that this author encounters (got to go see that ob/gyn!).  Oh yeah and the lesbian thing--so few real lesbians appearing in books lately, so n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31818426">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Andrea Askowitz is friggin hilarious. It was really cool to hear her read and her book confirmed my desire to never be pregnant ever.<br/><br/>Upon reading other people's reviews it seems that a lot of people didn't like the book because they felt Andrea was self-centered and obnoxious. But I thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29907581">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very few books make me laugh out-loud, this one did. The author's style of writing is shameless, open and raw. You feel like you are truly being let into her life. Her experiences go beyond lesbianism or pregnancy. I am neither gay nor pregnant and I still sympathize with her. Pregnancy can apparent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49350045">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book because I felt such a connection that can only come from a shared journey. While I am not a lesbian, I am the mother of two girls, so the bumpy road of pregnancy and all of the resulting negativity, pregnancy brain, and insecurity felt like transcriptions from the journal ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20755121">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[BLEAH.  This author could not be more likeable if she tried.  I bought the book because I saw snippits of it in cartoon form, and <em>they</em> were funny.  The whole book should be cut down into three-panel manga-style drawings.  Then it might work for her.  It was tedious and whiny and I read it just to ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29958554">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not miserable, lonely, a lesbian or pregnant but I wanted to read this book. It was fun, it was educational, it was a good book and the cover caught my eye. The author was in Chicago not to long ago and I wanted to go but couldn't.lgbtALLY approved :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book because it was so honest, and funny, and sad and a great story of a woman who was determined to have a kid, with or without a partner, and everything she had to go through to do it.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the worst book i have ever read. which isn't a true statement, but the whole thing has infected me with sloppiness and laziness. i don't know when i've disliked a memoirist more.]]></body>
    
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