Little Earthquakes

Although I have loved some other titles by this author, I did not enjoy this book. I agree, its fairly well-written. However, the details of the agonizing days of dealing with a newborn are something I would like to forget. This book forces you to relive those awful moments (why won't my baby nurse? How can I avoid having post-baby sex? Will I ever get a full nights' sleep again? etc.) This might be a good book for someone who is closer to those days, but my kids are 10 and 14. I've moved on, happily.

I finished reading this book only because I paid my hard-earned money for it. As the mother of three children I thought it was totally unrealistic. what! they didn't have any other friends until they all met up with each other. All they did was whine! I didn't understand why they couldn't talk about their feelings with their HUSBANDS.....I thought they were all total air heads!

I got through the book, continually hoping for it to acknowledge the joy of motherhood. The joy was there occasionally, but it was too deeply buried in the hard parts of being a Mom. Plus, out of 5 husbands, 4 had issues. Where is the balance? This is not how I'd recount my children's early days, or the message I'd want to share with young women.

This is the third book I read by jennifer Weiner, and like the previous two, I really liked it. This amazes me every time, because her stories, written by someone else, would be just another chick lit book, a light "beach read" - in fact this is what you expect when you read the synopsis on the back cover of the paperback.

Instead she manages to turn a somewhat drab story line into an interesting view into someone else's life: someone else who inevitably turns out to be interesting though not incredibly special, and always relatable. You never resent that her characters are so real, that they aren't more exotic: because you get sucked into how real it all sounds, how possible it all is. And at that point, the book has long stopped being just another chick flick and has turned into something that is so close to real life to be biographic, but it's never boring, never showy (like many biographic tales are).

Jennifer Weiner is not just a great writer and a great story teller, but she's obviously a deeply empathic person too: for how else could she capture the voices of her characters so well, without ever sounding sappy or trite?

Thank you Ms. Weiner, for showing us once again that a great writer doesn't have to write in big words and boring philosophical abstracts! And for showing that "chick lit" can be well written and intelligent.

As my title states, this was a very interesting story and very well written. However, as someone who has not had kids yet, I found it also to be a very depressing view of motherhood and really makes me think more than twice about having kids. None of the characters had anything good to say about motherhood, other than that they loved thier children. It was depressing!!!!

When I read a book, I typically have 3 basic categories that they fit into: Really great books I finished in less than a week(read at every opportunity), Good books that took longer to read, and books that I STILL don't know the ending to. This book definately fits into the first category for me. It was the first book by Jennifer Weiner that I ever read, and have since been a fan of her work. I really enjoyed the way it was written. I have read other books that seperate chapters by character, and always end up favoring one characters story over the others; however with this book I enjoyed all of the character's stories equally.

I thought this book was good and it kept me interested the whole way through. I'd definatly recommend it for other new moms out there.

What an absolutely unforgettable read! This is the first book of Jennifer Weiner’s I’ve read and I’m so excited to read more of her books! These four women...no, these four wonderful, amazing characters stole my heart. With their joys and their sorrows, their new babies and coping with being mothers, as well as keeping their marriages from falling apart, I could relate to so many aspects of their lives as I fully understand the ups and downs of motherhood and being a devoted wife. Little Earthquakes is most definitely a novel that should be at the top of every serious reader’s to-read list!

Never received book. I am getting a refund. read the small print. States it will ship in 24 hours but the fine print states 2-21 days. I needed it for a book club and ended up reading a friends book. The book is great.

My friend and I have passed this book back and forth several times. We have both also had new babies in the last two years. I love the way Jennifer Weiner makes her female characters real. The story is not about perfection, it is about real life. No family has roses and peaches every day. Being a new mom stinks a lot of the time and you need to see that in other people sometimes.