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Some of her advice is helpful, while some is infuriating. She advises people to drop the kids off at their grandparents and go on a date every week, because surely everyone lives near family and free babysitters. And if you can’t imagine enjoying a week vacation with your spouse, you’d better book a two week couples vacation instead. That’s totally realistic.

It’s a struggle to keep reading.

At halfway through, I really can’t stand the characters.

DNF

New reading-aloud-before-bed strategy: just stop reading before the cliffhanger. Preliminary results are promising.

MY LIBRARY HOLD CAME IN.

Proving that I have an innate and irrational affinity for paperwork and documentation, I love this book.

This collection includes a poem about how, after the cats destroyed his voter registration card, he gave them a lecture about the sanctity of private property and the importance of voting. Brilliant.