Baby Proof | Emily Giffin | my favorite so far

Baby Proof | Emily Giffin | Ok book

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Baby Proof

	Baby Proof Emily Giffin St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 252 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love?
First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isn?t that what all women want?
Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all.
This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. It?s about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was---and that there is no possible compromise. It?s about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, it?s about the things we will do---and won?t do---for love.

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my favorite so far

i thought this was emily giffin's "smartest" book yet. while i really liked something borrowed and something blue, the characters felt a little too conventional at times (rachel the "good girl" and darcy the "selfish girl"). i thought claudia was a more real, human character, a smart and thoughtful woman with her own set of issues and flaws. i found her sense of betrayal at ben to be authentic and really enjoyed her romance with richard and her ultimate decision in figuring out how she wants her life to be. aside from darcy in something blue, i also thought that claudia was the character who developed the most from the beginning to the end of the story. the side issue of whether to have kids or not was an interesting backdrop for this love story.

definitely my favorite giffin book so far and i am looking forward to reading love the one you're with.

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Ok book

This book is about a woman who didn't wants kids and that eventually led to her divorce. While she tried to move on, she witnessed baby-related things happened to her friends and family and wondered if she made the right choice...

This is an ok book because I skipped some parts which I think are very unecessary to throw into this book. A little draggy toward the end.
Some people said that this book is against feminism because she **************spoiler********** decided to have kids for her husband but I din't think so. Yes, she changed her mind but the reason she didn't like to have kid in the beginning is because she didn't want to be like her mother (who cheated, abandoned their kids,...), it's not because of her career and other random stuffs (yes, she did says that those are her reasons but they are only excuses because she really didn't want to face her real reason, IMO)

I LOVE the fact that Giffin squeezed in the after-marriage life of Ethan and Darce, I was really surprise when I got to that part and can't stop smiling knowing that they are still madly in love, and have a baby GIRL on the way.

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Not your typical chick lit

This is Emily Giffin's best book so far. I read Something Borrowed and Something Blue, and although I liked her writing and the plot was well done, I wasn't the biggest fan of the characters. This time, I loved the character Claudia in Baby Proof. I first read an excerpt of Baby Proof at the end of the paperback edition of Something Blue, and I knew I had to get it.

Unlike most chick lit books who always has the same plot: girl falls for boy of her dreams and girl gets boy at the end, Baby Proof is about a couple trying to work out their differences and expectations in their marriage.

Like most couples in a stable relationship, Claudia and Ben have a mutual understanding about what they want out of their relationship - one of them being not having a child. However, when Ben changes his mind, and Claudia refuses to compromise, their relationship falls apart.

Although the plot of this novel is about having children, it could have been about anything else that a couple goes through. This is a story of a couple working out their differences and figuring out what is right for them... as individuals and as a couple.

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