Baby Proof (edition 2006)

I normally don't like ambiguous endings, but in this case, it made the book perfect. I loved it. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because I only give 5 stars to books I'd read again, and once was enough for this one. ( )

Definitely my least favourite book written by Emily Giffin.
I did not like the characters much and thought Ben was the worst asshole.

Beware! Spoilers are coming up!

Claudia and everybody else were saying what a great marriage they had, but I did not see that at all. Claudia appears at first to be a very intelligent woman, who decided very early, she did not want to have a baby. She meets Ben and babies come up, and it appears they are both on the same weight lenght on this subject. Both do not want to have kids and they make a deal when they meet they will not try to have kids. Then after they are married and a few years later,all of a sudden he changes his mind,he does now want a baby but does not really want to talk about it. When he talks he talks in max 5 words sentences. Oh what a great marriage they have. She must have a kid or else. Then without discussing it they split.


Then it gets even more pathetic.
Claudia starts to miss him and here we thought she was a strong woman (it was great to see someone writing about women who do not want kids, how their family and friends react to that and how they are judges by many) but apprently all of a sudden, only because she does miss Ben, all her strong views of life are thrown away. She will have a baby just to get Ben back. Claudia 0 Ben and baby:1

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I have rarely been so offended... The main character simply has no desire to be a mother, but is consistently pressed to argue her case. Even worse, by the end of the book, she is ready to have a baby - not because she wants to be a mother, but because she wants to get the guy. Simply appalling. ( )

I have rarely been so offended... The main character simply has no desire to be a mother, but is consistently pressed to argue her case. Even worse, by the end of the book, she is ready to have a baby - not because she wants to be a mother, but because she wants to get the guy. Simply appalling. ( )

It is really difficult to review this book without spoiling it. This was my first experience with Emily Giffin, and I was hooked from page one. As I say in my other reviews of her work, she is nothing if not a supremely smart, intuitive writer. In each of her books, there is a sentence that sticks with you, a crystallized moment of clarity, that makes reading the whole novel more of an experience than one would expect. In Baby Proof, it's this: "On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say that it doesn't work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place." That is a gem! ( )