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Rattled!: A Memoir
Warm, honest, funny, and empowering, Rattled! is an unforgettable memoir of a life that takes an unexpected turn—and a brave young woman who decides to follow where the road leads. Everything in twenty-six-year-old Christine’s life was going as planned—great friends, a promising job as a magazine assistant, New York City at her feet . . . even a cute guy. Until the fateful...more
Paperback, 322 pages
Published
April 14th 2009
by Broadway Books
(first published April 3rd 2009)
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Hmm I really want to give this more like 2.5 stars...close to 3 because I did like it, but it's a really unusual read for me so I wouldn't rate it alongside my more preferred fare.
Anyway: This is about a girl who gets pregnant at age 26 with a guy she's only been dating for 3 months. She decides the keep the baby, the guy quickly vamooses, and she has to leave her fun-loving NYC life and move back home to Jersey.
I started reading this several years ago because a friend who works at a dating/rel...more
Anyway: This is about a girl who gets pregnant at age 26 with a guy she's only been dating for 3 months. She decides the keep the baby, the guy quickly vamooses, and she has to leave her fun-loving NYC life and move back home to Jersey.
I started reading this several years ago because a friend who works at a dating/rel...more
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A great book, very well written and a definitely interesting story. I read Christine's blog regularly (when it was "Storked!" for Glamour magazine) and now she is blogging at parenting.com as "Mama's Boy." It's so fun to read her book, chronicling her unintended pregnancy and all the ups and downs of that being a young, single, NYC loving girl. And now, to read her blog, you can catch up on what has happened to Christine and Jack...after Jack was born and the book ended. That's a bonus!!
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*shriek* this book freaked me out. it bills itself as a humorous memoir of a new york city magazine writer party girl finding herself unexpectedly knocked up & having to make the transition to responsible mommy chillaxin' in the suburbs. which it is, minus the part where it's all that funny, & minus the author really being all that much of a party girl. she kind of seems to be living this weird "sex & the city" fantasy lifestyle, with friends who work for designers, trying to launch...more
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I read this memoir by Coppa in one night. I am a daily reader of her blog on Glamour.com and was really interested in what she had to say about her transition from city girl to mommy. For those who do not know, Chrissy is a single mom to JD and a freelance writer. She blogs daily about JD and her daily occurrences at Storked! and her writing over there got me interested enough to purchase not one, but two copies of her book the day it came out. One for me and one for my best-friend.
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Aug 29, 2009
Jean Godwin Carroll
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3 of 5 stars
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motherhood-parenting-family,
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Enjoyable memior from a 26-year old, single woman who choses to have her baby without support from the father (her ex-boyfriend). She had just recently moved to New York City from New Jersey after an emotional break-up from a longterm relationship, and was living a "Sex in the City"-like, carefree and fun lifestyle. After dating a new guy for 3 months, she has unprotected sex once, which she continually berates herself for doing throughout the book, and finds herself pregnant and unsure of her f...more
I read "Rattled" after having read Christine Coppa's Storked! blog on Glamour.com. The book essentially consists of the blog entries strung together in a more cohesive narrative. I was looking for something a little more substantial. but it's a decent read. It struck me that Ms. Coppa felt, for some reason, that having a husband to go along with her baby was "owed" to her. Yes, it's probably terrible to have your boyfriend of 5 months bail before you're even 3 months pregnant. I got a little tir...more
Light, enjoyable read. Christine was honest in her memoir of learning she is pregnant and dealing with the fact that she will be raising a child on her own, after her boyfriend of three months cowardly abandons her. I was, however, annoyed that his name was "A." Was she hiding the fact that his name was really Adam or Aaron or Andrew? Who really names a son A? I had to read every sentence twice that she referenced him since it didn't make sense to read "A never returned my phone calls..." or "A...more
For the most part this was enjoyable though I personally don't live the "Sex and the City" lifestyle (though I do live in NYC) and found some of the scenes she described to be a bit melodramatic. Still, it must feel awesome to go from a 20-something assistant working your ass off in NYC and sharing an apartment with CL roommates to being a freelance columnist and published author whose work has received positive accolades all while a single parent. That I can definitely relate to (minus the sing...more
I found this book through Christine's blog, and basically if you've been reading the blog you've read the book. It was a fast and easy read but because it's not offering anything new I can't recommend reading this instead of her blog. As some of the other reviewers said, I have to agree that there's a little too much brand name dropping (a problem always found on her blog as well) and blame on A for how hard single motherhood is on her. Yes, A is kinda an asshole but it's just so tiring to hear...more
Excellent book.
About 2 years ago, one of my dear friends from HS posted a link to her friends new blog, called "Storked!". The blog author: a girl she went to college with at UofA in Philly, named Chrstine Coppa. A good friend of Tanika's and Tanika was spreading the word about her new blog.
Fast forward 2 years later. The blog is popular worlwide, daily column on Glamour.com, and Chistine has now written a book about her "Storked!" experiences. I have really gotten to know Christine over the ye...more
About 2 years ago, one of my dear friends from HS posted a link to her friends new blog, called "Storked!". The blog author: a girl she went to college with at UofA in Philly, named Chrstine Coppa. A good friend of Tanika's and Tanika was spreading the word about her new blog.
Fast forward 2 years later. The blog is popular worlwide, daily column on Glamour.com, and Chistine has now written a book about her "Storked!" experiences. I have really gotten to know Christine over the ye...more
The author of this memoir--Christine Coppa--keeps a blog on Glamour.com that I've been reading for the past couple of years. I have been, I have to admit, sucked in, and have followed the story of her son's birth and the first couple of years of his life. I therefore had to buy the book that would give "the background of the blog". I wouldn't call this high literature, but I was struck by how movingly Coppa wrote about her relationship with her future and then newborn son.
I thought this book had a lot of really funny and really sad moments. Christine finds herself pregnant with a baby daddy who could care less. She chooses to have the child which I really admired. It had some great anecdotes about her family that had me laughing out loud. It did get a little repetitive that in every chapter she comes to the "realization" that she will be a single mom. There is lots of brand name dropping. She goes from being a NYC girl having the time of her life, to living in Je...more
This book is a very enjoyable memoir written by a girl in her 20s her realized she was pregnant by her boyfriend and decided to raise the baby as a single mom when he deserted her. She has a beautiful writing style that makes for an enjoyable read and you can't help rooting for her throughout her entire story. I finished this in two days and cannot wait for a sequel!
This is an enjoyable memoir by a single 26 year old expecting unexpectedly. The writing is pretty upbeat and almost comes across comical at times. It reminds me of the Shopaholic series. I did find it a little surprising how upbeat the writing was even when she was going through tough times. However, I do think it was an uplifting story.
Parts were amusing but overall, I never really connected with the character. I was never the party girl at heart, so her transition to motherly sacrifice and all seemed more like just a transition to growing up. Being a memoir, I'm glad that she was able to maintain a career and keep her sense of humor...
This book was a quick read & while the author seems to live in a very different world than I do I enjoyed the story. There were times that it almost seemed that she had two completely different personalities though...so I'm not sure who she really is. Bottom line, it was an easy read & it made me even more happy to have my husband by my side for this pregnancy & to raise our child together.
Jun 15, 2010
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A truly heartfelt and memorable tale that had me hooked from the first page.
Christine Coppa has such a beautiful writing style that makes for an enjoyable and unputdownable read, so much so that you can't help wanting to be there to hold her hand throughout her entire story.
Christine Coppa has such a beautiful writing style that makes for an enjoyable and unputdownable read, so much so that you can't help wanting to be there to hold her hand throughout her entire story.
This book was just okay. It's written in the present tense despite the fact that these events ocurred years ago, which I found annoying. I also felt the "flashbacks" to earlier in her life were random and pointless. I thought it would be a light, easy read but I pretty much trudged my way through this one.
I was really excited to read this book because I am a fan of Christine's Glamour blog, but it just felt flat to me. Maybe because I know the outcome, maybe because her blog has been promoting it to death, I don't know. But I just didn't think it flowed right.
Eh - this book was just okay. The cover is totally deceiving - it is not a light hearted book about a fabulous Manhattanite getting knocked up! It is a memoir and seems to drag a bit....Even though its a memoir, i wanted closure with the baby's father.
I like reading Chrissy's blog, but I didn't think the book added much to it...and I did not like her writing style...I never really felt an emotional connection, the whole thing is just fact, fact, fact. I went here, I did this, and oh yeah, I felt this.
A cute memoir of a young woman's unexpected pregnancy. Although there were some positive lessons to be learned though out the novel, at about half-way through I was kind of bored. A fun read, but not exactly a page turner.
I picked this up because I read the author's blog on Glamour.com. Her memoir, which focuses on her journey as a young, single mother from the positive pregnancy test through the first few months of her son's life, is funny and honest, and while I'm definitely not a single mom, I can appreciate her...involved...family and supportive network of girlfriends. A quick beach read (or plane read, as I read it) and a touching story.
I picked up this book during a crazy spell of insomnia last night which only kept me awake longer. The reality presented in this book left me feeling warm and fuzzy and slightly wanting a baby of my own.
Randomly picked this up at Target one day and was pleasantly surprised. It's a sweet story about a woman embarking on and embracing single motherhood. You'll definitely find yourself rooting for her!
I was an avid reader of Coppa's blogs for years before I read this, and I think the book is great. I am 29 and this memoir speaks right to my age cohort, so I really felt a connection to it.
I'm a fan of Coppa's blog because our sons are the same age. Her memoir was a good read, but if she moaned one more time about leaving the Big City, I was going to drive to her condo in NJ to tell her that I get it. NYC rocks! Jersey does not. Move on.
This was a fun read, read while nursing my daughter, which made it even more relevant. She is pretty funny and I liked routing for her in the book.
It was good; a fast read, not brilliant literature of course but still well-written. I was an early follower of her first blog and really enjoyed getting more insight into what was going on in her life during the same time period the blog covered.
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