false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582m/86485.jpg 86485 3 From the bestselling author whom <i>Time</i> magazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an insightful, moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty. <br/><br/> Like many women her age, Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. A young woman's future was limitless, their mothers' generation told them. A child could rob one of independence, economic freedom, professional advancement, and just about everything else worth having. But all the empowerment and reproductive choice offered to this generation, Walker now realizes, may actually have led to a new kind of struggle. <br/><br/> For fifteen years Walker recognized a persistent yearning to have a baby but feared actually choosing to do it. As a result, she almost missed what she now knows to be the single most meaningful experience of her life. In <i>Baby Love</i>, Rebecca Walker tells the story of her pregnancy: not just the physical evolution, but also the emotional and intellectual transformation from ambivalence to certainty to unconditional love. It's the story of the birth of her son, as well as the tale of a generation-a wise, thought-provoking, and above all engaging memoir by a writer who has proven herself to be an important voice of her era. 1197262 2007 Baby Love total:289|5:34|4:71|3:99|2:65|1:20| 289 901 466 96 2 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 08:52:24 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 07:27:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 3 true false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 17:52:55 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 12 16:14:13 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 15:32:05 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 15:07:20 -0700 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/articl... .

Rebecca Walker is the daughter of author Alice Walker, who wrote "The Color Purple". The article teaser is what made me interested in reading this book.

"She's revered as a trail-blazin...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 12:27:59 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 17:17:14 -0800 2008 Baby Love: choosing motherhood after a lifetime of ambivalence. The subtitle made me think that basically after a lifetime of NOT wanting children the author suddenly changed her mind and did have a child. But, basically...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 13:10:35 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 12 09:59:59 -0800 2007
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The main flaw is it's obvious throughout that the author still has some major issues with her mother, Ali...more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 13:02:28 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 12:01:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Apr 19 14:48:30 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 14:52:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 10:32:08 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 10:34:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 30 10:58:34 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 13:41:10 -0700 2009 every single page and sometimes up to 8 times per page, ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 09:30:45 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 14:55:35 -0800 2009
Since she wrote this journal-style, at times it feels a little too close to reading your own diary...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 13:38:15 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 15:12:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 22:57:56 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 14:20:19 -0700 2008 Baby Love but "Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence" is totally misleading. Rebecca Walker always wanted children. She had the same fears we all have: Who will I have a child with? How will we pay for it? Will the baby...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 05:57:07 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 06:08:08 -0700 2008
But parts made me uncomfortable--mainly her seemin...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jun 04 07:30:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 07:45:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 10:21:15 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 21 15:15:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 12 12:41:49 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 12:41:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=86485