{"id":2663,"date":"2012-08-06T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:53:16","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-a-yummy-mummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2663","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Rise-Fall-Yummy-Mummy\/dp\/0751537446\/ref=tmm_pap_title_popover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-a-Yummy-Mummy-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-a-Yummy-Mummy-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-a-Yummy-Mummy.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought this book on Amazon Warehouse Deals, which sucked me in with its bargains even though I had pledged not to buy physical books this year.  I was supposed to borrow books from the library and, if I was going to buy fiction, buy it for the Kindle.  Anyway, I only paid \u00c2\u00a31.27 for this book and I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t pay any more than that because it wasn&#8217;t that good.<\/p>\n<p>The writing is honest and sharp &#8211; I will give it that.  But I saw the &#8216;surprises&#8217; coming a mile off and I found the subject matter so trivial.  I&#8217;d read reviews saying that this book tells the truth about the first year of motherhood so I was ready for something deep and affecting, possibly with a dark side.  I&#8217;m not a mother but plenty of my peers are so I do glimpse into that world, even if I don&#8217;t have first hand experience.  So some of the motherhood stuff was familiar.  I had a problem with the main character though.  She seems so selfish and superficial, especially the way she always notices people&#8217;s appearances.  Her friendships with her friends mostly seem very shallow too, though there are a couple of touching moments.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to enjoy this book.  Maybe I would have if I was a mother, but reading this book made me grateful that I&#8217;m not one.  They say you shouldn&#8217;t judge a book by its cover.  Well, if I&#8217;d paid attention to the cover (or at least the title) before buying, it would have registered that the books I love do not have covers like this.  I don&#8217;t like books about women who don&#8217;t seem to think about anything apart from babies and relationships and bitch about other women.  Perhaps chick lit is not for me. <\/p>\n<p>(34th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book on Amazon Warehouse Deals, which sucked me in with its bargains even though I had pledged not to buy physical books this year. I was supposed to borrow books from the library and, if I was going to buy fiction, buy it for the Kindle. Anyway, I only paid \u00c2\u00a31.27 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}