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I Want My Epidural Back
I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting | Karen Alpert
Now that Im a mom, I know the most painful part isnt getting something giant through your hooha. Its having a real live child. If you are the kind of mom who shapes your kiddos organic quinoa into reproductions of the Mona Lisa, do not read this book. If you stayed up past midnight to create posters for your PTO presidential campaign, do not read this book. If you look down your nose at parents who have Dominos pizza on speed dial, do not read this book. But if you are the kind of parent who accidentally goes ballistic on your rugrats every morning because they wont put their shoes on and then you feel super guilty about it all day so you take them to McDonalds for a special treat but really its because you opened up your freezer and panicked because you forgot to buy more frozen pizzas, then absolutely read this book. I Want My Epidural Back is a celebration of mediocre parents and how awesome they are and how their kids love them just as much as children with perfect parents. Karen Alperts honest but hilarious observations, stories, quips and pictures will have you nodding your head and peeing in your pants. Or on the toilet if youre smart and read it there.
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@RadicalReader my library and I are not always friends. We have 3 copies of each of the 50 shades trilogy (plus audio books), but we don‘t have half of everything else. For living in one of the most religiously oppressed places in the world I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT‘S HAPPENING HERE!!!

GingerAntics @RadicalReader Did just checkout I Heart My Little A-holes by the same author, though. (edited) 6y
MelAnn Same boat here... 6y
GingerAntics @MelAnn drives me nuts when a book sounds really good and then the library doesn‘t have it. Sigh. To Apple Books, I guess. lol 6y
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GingerAntics @RadicalReader @MelAnn $1.99 on Apple Books...not even remotely sorry. I‘m actually reading parenting books as research for my NaNoWriMo idea, so I feel this qualifies as research. Thanks for the suggestion!!! 6y
LibrarianRyan 1. you could probably ask the library to purchase or borrow the item you are looking for, 2. Just because your library has 3 copies of something it doesn‘t mean they bought it. I never bought 50 shades for my library but we had 10 copies of book 1 and at least 5 of the others. I kept adding the donated copies to the collection until my and my consortia hold list went from over 1000 to none. 6y
RadicalReader @GingerAntics what‘s NaNoWriMo? 6y
GingerAntics @LibrarianRyan it‘s not that I think the library bought them or care that they did, it‘s that for all the things they refuse to carry because “this is a Christian nation,” they‘re cool with carrying that at all? When the movies came out there were protests. They can have what they want, honestly, but I‘ve talked to them about getting books before and they won‘t because they don‘t think they‘re appropriate (because history books are horrible). 🙄 6y
GingerAntics @LibrarianRyan I get what you‘re saying though. Libraries are designed to serve the community, so if they get more copies so the wait lists aren‘t miles long, that just makes sense. I‘m not entirely sure this library system does that, though. 6y
GingerAntics @RadicalReader NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. It‘s in November. This is the first year I‘ve signed up to do it. It‘s 50K words in 30 days. I was worried at first, until I realised that I crank out 2000+ words a day without breaking a sweat. lol 6y
RadicalReader @GingerAntics when writing essays for school it was remarkable to be able to write essays in less than an hour to find out that other students would plan out a week or more to write what took me less than an hour 6y
LibrarianRyan @GingerAntics it really depends on the library. We couldn‘t afford extra copies but I would add donations frequently. Your library not having a “balanced” collection sucks. They should be purchasing what the public wants not what they think they need. But that is sometimes hard for old school librarians. (I don‘t mean age). Good luck. 6y
GingerAntics @LibrarianRyan lol yeah, I thought that particular version of librarians had gone by the wayside, but apparently not. I would think getting people reading would be the ultimate goal, but 🤷🏼‍♀️. It‘s forced my own personal library grow I guess. So it‘s not all bad. $1.99 isn‘t bad for a book these days, really. 6y
GingerAntics @RadicalReader same here. I‘ve got a co worker who writes, but he said he‘d never be able to do it because he only manages a few hundred words a day. I suppose everyone has their own thing, though. 6y
twohectobooks Do you have access to inter library loans? At my library you can request that they bring in books from collections in other provinces. So far they haven‘t done it for me but maybe someday haha. 6y
GingerAntics @twohectobooks I‘ve actually used that quite a lot. I used it all the time in grad school. Since then I have had less success. I‘ve put in requests for 4 different books, but no library in the state has them. I had to have one imported from Scotland. 6y
RadicalReader @GingerAntics you could try looking up Karen Alpert maybe the book will come up that way 6y
GingerAntics @RadicalReader I did that, too. The only book they had by her was I Heart My Little A-Holes. I ended up finding it on Apple Books for $2. (edited) 6y
RadicalReader @GingerAntics there you go love having multiple resources for wonderful books 6y
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