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Armchair -- September, 2005 -- Making It Up As I
Go Along by Maria T. Lennon -- Reviewed by Alia Pranke -- The
long, hot, lazy days of summer are somehow just about perfect for
certain books. Making It Up As I Go Along by Maria T. Lennon is one
of those. Saffron Roch, a war correspondent who is passionate about
her career, leaves Sierra Leone, Africa for her home state of
California after learning that her lover, Oscar, a surgeon with
Doctors Without Borders, has been unfaithful. To complicate matters,
Saffron is pregnant with the arrogant Oscar's child. California
brings another chapter to Saffron's life. She's a single mother to
daughter Halla; her adoptive mother...
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Bookloons.com -- August 2005 -- Making It Up As I
Go Along -- Maria T. Lennon. Shaye Areheart, $21 (336p) ISBN
1-4000-8190-4 -- Reviewed by Hilary Daninhirsch --
Thirty-something Saffron Roch is a journalist covering war torn
areas in Africa. She has spent the last decade living away from her
comfortable Malibu home. When her stepmother passes away, Saffron
returns to California, toting along her newborn daughter. Despite
her years spent living in, and reporting from, a Third World
country, motherhood confounds Saffron and provides her with the
biggest challenge of her life. At a breastfeeding class, Saffron
connects with a group of new mothers, with most of whom she has
nothing in common...
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Books A Million -- June 2005 -- Editor's Choice:
"In this fun, smartly-written debut war correspondent-turned new
single mother-to-be Saffron Roch decides to turn her life around and
brilliantly succeeds with the help of an unlikely assortment of new
friends. Making It Up as I Go Along is a pleasantly fresh,
well-plotted novel." |
The Denver Post – June 19, 2005 -- Mommy lit's new
heroine, from Africa to L.A.
By Mia Geiger -- Motherhood, a topic that doesn't hold a lot
of panache in social situations, has become a hot topic in another
area - popular fiction. And for good reason. Where else can we find
such fodder as a new mom trying to figure out when to switch sides
during breast-feeding, how to get from one place to another without
toting along her baby's entire wardrobe and toy chest, and the best
way to change a diaper while on the highway...
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UrbanMom.com review -- June 15, 2005 -- Beach
Reads -- Put away Brazelton & Spock, The World is Flat, and
Freakonomics – whatever your conscience is telling you that you
should be reading now. It's time for some summer fluff, the
lying-on-the-beach, flying-on-the-plane, napping-by-the-pool (or
stealing-half-an-hour-while-Junior-naps) kind of book. However you
manage it, the best of the season's lighter fare usually features a
tempting cocktail of romance, gossip and revenge. Throw in a riff on
modern over-the-top mommy culture and you've got a real corker on
your hands...
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Publishers Weekly – May 16, 2005 -- Making It Up As I Go Along
-- Maria T. Lennon. Shaye Areheart, $21 (336p) ISBN 1-4000-8190-4 --
When 38-year-old war correspondent Saffron Roch quits Sierra Leone,
pregnant with her unfaithful lover's child, she heads to London to
have baby Halla and then returns to her native California to find
herself catapulted into two new, unnerving conflicts. There's that
single-motherhood business, for one, and then there's the fact that
she's netted a $10-million estate from her adoptive mother...
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Library Journal – March 2005 -- Making It Up
As I Go Along by Maria T. Lennon -- At age 38, globetrotting
journalist Saffron Roch finds herself back in Los Angeles with a new
baby, no husband, and an inheritance from her adoptive mother that
comes with strings attached, including complete forfeiture if the
father of her child comes back into her life. Struggling with the
day-to-day routines of life with a newborn, Saffron joins a trendy
breastfeeding support group. Lennon uses an effective blend of humor
and drama to address Saffron's struggles to cope with her own
upbringin...
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