You know that thing that Ellen Degeneres does? Let me see, here's an example:

"I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before."

That thing. Is there a name for that schtick?

Anyway, Wilder-Taylor does a lot of that. It's a device I find funny some of the time but not all of the time. And that's the difference between me reading this book and thinking it was a fine lunchtime companion (which I did) and me actually recommending the book to others (which I won't).

With a title like Naptime is the New Happy Hour, I think this book is supposed to be more about the "biting wit" the back cover mentions than the "boatloads of common sense." I might have found the wit more wonderful if I didn't know so many wonderfully witty people.* As I do, instead I enjoyed the common sense parts of the book so much more.


*I know, I know. Alliteration and repetition are so my schtick.