A review by hyzenthlay76
Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker
3.0
This is really more like 2.5 stars, because while it was thought-provoking at times, it was also incredibly annoying. Major Annoyance #1 is that the "ambivalent" author tells us she has been obsessing about having a baby for 10-15 years. I don't think that word means what you think it means...
Major Annoyance #2 is that the blurbs promised an exploration of the transformation from daughter to mother, and yet Walker and her mother aren't speaking for most of the book and by the end have written each other off. That seems a more dramatic transition than most and left little to explore.
Major Annoyance #3 is that the birth of her son gives Walker the predictable license to say that until a woman has a baby, she isn't fully living or fully loving. Go feminism.
In between the annoyances was my usual fascination with pregnancy and childbirth, things I will, without ambivalence, never experience.
Major Annoyance #2 is that the blurbs promised an exploration of the transformation from daughter to mother, and yet Walker and her mother aren't speaking for most of the book and by the end have written each other off. That seems a more dramatic transition than most and left little to explore.
Major Annoyance #3 is that the birth of her son gives Walker the predictable license to say that until a woman has a baby, she isn't fully living or fully loving. Go feminism.
In between the annoyances was my usual fascination with pregnancy and childbirth, things I will, without ambivalence, never experience.