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    <body><![CDATA[     I loved this book and feel like the author and I are leading parallel lives.  There are a few geographical adjustments because she is in CA and I am the Midwest, but she could be writing about my life!  She has a tough time as a lacrosse mom; my own initiation as a hockey mom was also a little ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67591388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;There have been times in my life when I envied Bodhi. The day we brought Ben home from the hospital, for instance, and he cried for six hours without stopping until I screamed, 'What the fuck have we done!' at my husband. Bodhi heaved a big I-told-you-having-this-baby-was-a-bad-idea sigh and w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68186034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not real big on memoirs. My reading tastes tend more toward escapism, which you may have already noted. This memoir, however, I could not put down. Melanie Gideon did not get lost on a mountain climbing expedition (she DID fall off her bike though) or get breast cancer (she scratched her cornea)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63290140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this all in one sitting, devouring the chapters like chips, because of writing like this:<br/>&quot;There's this strange phenomenon. An hour after you've put your children to sleep, the ways in which you have wronged them sprawl out on your chest, all two hundred and fifty pounds of them, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68253083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The intro promised the journey of a woman in a crisis of disaffection with her happy life.  I picked it up because my own mid-life crisis is just gearing up and I wanted to see how someone a little older weathered theirs.  Instead of a year of growth, I got a series of essay on shit that happened to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57608056">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have very little in common with Melanie Gideon other than the fact we both live in the Bay Area yet I ate up her book, which outwardly appears to be a memoir about nothing written by a stay at home mom, in a few hours.  What we do have in common in that sometimes it feels like the world is slippin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79118186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another one of those books, a bit like _Helping me help myself_, Hyperchondriac and _Up for Renewal_, where there are some very funny parts, but the author also portrays themselves as so dysfunctional you just want to smack them. Why is it that I keep finding these books, often written by lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75161351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Listened to Diane Rehm interview the author - can really relate to the author's natural risk-averse temperament, and the need to step out there and &quot;flex&quot; those muscles. <br/><br/>The author talked about a slipper year being a time where you feel like your arm is one sleeve that doesn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66146609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book and would give it 2.5 stars. Very quick read, funny, clever, sharp writing (which I like). However, it is NOT what it billed itself to be. It's not one womans quest for anything. It was simply a series of essays from a year of her life. There were a few instances where I thought sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76037626">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like it :-) More like a 3 and a half. Entertaining and interesting. Tries to be clever, often is ... sometimes isn't. Kept my attention and was mostly interesting! The book is about a woman in San Francisco who used to live in Rhode Island. Her husband buys a camper van and she has a 9 year old so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80880359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I really found the author incredibly tiresome in the beginning, but  she increasingly grew on me. I adored the son and husband, but the wife. . . meh. A bit too jokey, a bit too consciously annoying. Nevertheless, it was a well crafted read. And the best kind of book: the kind you devour in one d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72331461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting memoir of a normal American woman who is struggling with the realities of &quot;happily ever after&quot;. This definitely would strike a bigger chord with women in the 35-50 age range with at least one child, but I definitely found a number of anecdotes funny and relatable. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69192916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. The author says the slipper year is what she termed a time of transition. She has a good marriage and 9 year old son, she just feels things are changing in her life and relationship. The chapters are really stand alone essays, dealing with issues such as separating from her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68665875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice collection of essays about being a mother and a wife in the Age of Anxiety. I didn't think the idea of tying the chapters together as a meditation on &quot;Why am I not as happy as I should be?&quot; quite worked since Gideon didn't embark on any specific quest to banish her ennui, but it was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79906712">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever find yourself on the car pick-up line at your kid's school and suddenly feel weighed down by the routine of it all? Well Melanie Gideon did. She was a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister. She had everything she needed and wanted but was still unhappy. The Slippery Year is her story of how ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79119088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was just great!! I laughed out loud multiple times and fell in love with Melanie's sense of humor. I recommend it to all of my mom friends. A very funny part is when she is talking about her sleeplessness as a result of her husband's snoring. She develops IWTFKYD...you will have to read it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74862900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard for me to believe that the author and I are not the same person.  Nothing extraordinary happens in this &quot;meditation.&quot;  But the similarities between my thoughts and her thoughts are mind-boggling.  Maybe that is enough to make me pause and think about my own &quot;quest to reignit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71534966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read the introduction to this book, I was pretty intrigued.  It sounded really relate-able, and I'm always interested in stories about marriage and motherhood.  However, the book didn't really deliver, although there are some nuggets of profound truth scattered throughout.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did laugh out loud a couple of times while reading this book, but I really think it's been overhyped. Maybe if I had a kid and/or lived in California I would feel different about it. For essays about everyday life, I prefer <em>Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.</em>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I expected a bit more depth from this book based on reviews I read and the general description, but it turned out to be a rather vapid account of one middle class woman's struggle with, among other things, her husband's purchase of a van as part of his mid-life crisis. Disappointing.]]></body>
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