The Gap Year

This was my therapy book. I wrote it to help myself understand all the strange symptoms I experienced around the time my only child left for college. Real Estate Regret was a big one. I'd drive around town imagining all the vastly better lives we could have had if we'd lived in different neighborhoo......more

After skimming a few of the reviews of this book on Goodreads, I think I may have read it with a different focus than some other readers. Maybe it's because I'm the mother of a tween daughter who one day (too soon for me, probably!) will begin to think about her future in very concrete terms, and, l......more

Things would be so much simpler if these silly teens would just tell their mothers and/or fathers about what is going on in their lives! I get that you want independence, but Come ON! With the serious shit that Tyler is living he would appreciate the fact that Cam would totally dote on him too! But......more

I remember picking up THE BOYFRIEND SCHOOL one night when I was sick. It held my attention despite my severe intestinal pain and I read it until I was finished. I have read it multiple times and it is in my top five books of all time. I read all of Bird's other published books (ALAMO HOUSE, THE MOMM......more

Many things about this book rubbed me the wrong way and I will chalk that up to personal persnicketiness, but I have one major beef: why wouldn't Aubrey let her mother meet her boyfriend? As long as girls have been choosing their own dates, they have been introducing overbearing, annoying, embarrass......more