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Cargando... . . . And Baby Makes Two: A Novel (edición 2005)por Judy Sheehan
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I picked this up on a whim while shelf-browsing at the library. It looked like a quick, light read that would tide me over until the books I have on order arrived. Jane Howe is a 37 year old, single, New York City career woman who has received a rather urgent wake-up call from her biological clock. After going through all her options, she decides to adopt a baby girl from China. Since the author, Judy Sheehan, did this exact thing, I am sure all the details surrounding this story are accurate and well-researched. Along the way, we meet many assorted and varied characters that help to keep the story flowing and appealing. The main character is a responsible and sensible adult which I found refreshing as often in this type of book the heroine is anything but sensible. The writing itself was charming and I grew to really care about the whole adoption process. All in all a very enjoyable, light read. Jane Howe is 37, single, with a good job. She suddenly hears her biological clock booming the hour, and after much thought, decides adopting a baby girl from China is the way to go for her. The book chronicles this process and also focuses on relationships and friendship and family. Just a fun book with lots of laugh-out-loud moments. A single New York woman in her late 30s thinks about having a child, and decides to adopt a girl from China... Her life is never the same again. Her gay best friend provides comic relief, her (unfortunately married) dream guy provides heartache, her Irish-American parents give unsolicited advice, Jane is surrounded by stock characters with a twist. Then she meets other single women who have decided that adoption is for them and together, they start the most unpredictable and transforming journey of their lives. I loved this book, can't wait for the next one (WOMEN IN HATS) from this writer! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:At thirty-seven, Jane Howe is pretty sure she has attained the perfect life: a well-paying job, fantastic friends, family close by (but not too close), and a Greenwich Village apartment that makes visitors drool with envy. But that's before she sees the perfect child. There he sits in his stroller, angelic and beautiful, magnetic and sereneâ?? and he makes Jane question everything she has and everything she thought she wanted. Suddenly all she can see are babies and pregnant woman everywhere. Were there always so many of them? And while there was once a man in her lifeâ??her one true love, Sam, gone from this world too soonâ??there is no man now. Jane must make a choice: possibly become a bitter and childless old lady, letting her biological clock tick on 'till menopause, or tend the ache in her heart now, by becoming a single mother. As Jane struggles to make the most important decision of her life, friends and family offer no shortage of opinions. There's Ray, her "hubstitute" and gay best friend who would be jealous of any kid who got Jane as a mom; Sheila, her sister, who went from zero to sixty when she eloped with Raoulâ??who had two young twin sonsâ?? and has mixed feelings about being a new mommy; her strict, Catholic father who can' t imagine what level of hell Jane would banish herself to if she becomes a single mother; and the women of Families with Children from China who are preparing to adopt orphan daughtersâ??without a man in sight. Just as she thinks she's made up her mind, Jane discovers one small wrench in her plans: handsome, charming, funny Peter, who just happens to be (unhappily) married. . . . And Baby Makes Two is a heartbreakingly honest, wonderfully addictive, and funny novel about love and loss, family and friendship. Judy Sheehan, co-creator of the smash hit Tony n' Tina's Wedding, has perfectly captured the delights and dilemmas of the scariest job in the world: motherhood. From the Hardc No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Jane, at 37, decides her biological clock is ticking and wants to become a mother. The novel describes her thought processes as she considers her options and also her decision and its consequences.
Jane's maniacal List making is a tad tiresome as is her on again off again relationship with Peter.
All in all quite a good read. ( )