Having seen the Doris Day movie that the book was based on I knew that I would enjoy it. " I was given this book as a gift for my birthday. I'll definitely look for more essay compilations by her. I would have loved to have been a visitor in her home. Many essays on motherhood get sappy, or sarcastic, or long-suffering.
The book and the author's life are the basis for the Doris Day classic by the same title. " This is a book of essays I picked up at a small-town library book sale in Oregon. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.
I wanted a house that would have four bedrooms for the boys, all of them located some distance from the living room - say in the next county somewhere." Even tho this book was published in 1957, it's as timely today as it was then." ".we had been looking for a larger house, and we knew what we wanted. "In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford." Or, her own children. "The first dog I remember well was a large black and white mutt that was part German Shepherd, part English sheep dog, and part collie - the wrong part in each case." Or finding their dream home, which turns out to be more of a 16 century castle thing. I love Kerr's ability to see humor in everyday mundane things like the family dog. It's based on Kerr's life with her husband - a college professor by day and a play critic by night herself - a playwright and their 4 children - all boys, 2 of which are twins. "I picked this up at a book sale thinking it may have been the book that inspired the TV show (am I old or what?). Jean Kerr’s parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the twenty-first century. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges.
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