How Hard Can It Be?

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Meanwhile, dementia, class expectations, menopause, self-harming teens, and the stresses that can break a marriage get dealt with . . .and the book finds a balance between compassion, insight, and wish-fulfillment that finally pays off splendidly. Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The best part of this book was the absolutely horrible trashy novel the main character writes for the evil...ummm...woman. It's so horrible that all you can do is laugh, especially at all the words for penis she comes up with. "Skin flute, pork sword, love muscle..." This book is full of funny banters, sexual jokes/innuendos, elderly characters that have mouths like a sailor and a sexy cop hero. Oh, and I cannot forget the hero from the novel within the novel…Pirate Dave. His story alone had my cheeks hurt from grinning hard while reading about him. There was even an appearance from Anderson Cooper, and let me tell you, I can totally see him playing the role. It was just pure comedy. That leaves Kate to find a job to support poor Richard and their teens, Emily and Ben, while she juggles caringfor her eightysomething mum and Richard’s parents, who are coping with his mother’s dementia. Kate’s fixer-upper of a home outside Londonis a money pit, her credit rating has plunged and she’s experiencing the aches and energy drain of perimenopause. That thread of a marriage crumbling and her new affair would have made a great story on his own. Affair guy was yummy and hubby was useless. (Even his kids didn’t miss him when he finally moved out). These stories where the ex-husband ends up with twins and endless sleepless nights are such a fun revenge for the now independent ex-wife who finally gets some freedom after raising her family. Kate’s situation with managing a house, teenagers, an absent husband, a career and the changes happening in her body and feeling invisible are so relatable!!!I fumble blindly on the bedside table and my baffled hand finds reading glasses, distance glasses, a pot of moisturizer and three foil sheets of pills before I locate my phone. Its small window of milky, metallic light reveals that my daughter is dressed in the Victoria’s Secret candy-pink shorty shorts and camisole I foolishly agreed to buy her after one of our horrible rows. I have read about half of this book and I think that it is a good and funny books written by taking some serious topics and ridiculing them to make them funny, I really like this approach and I think that it should be used more when writing books. Laugh-out-loud funny and entirely relatable--you'll fall in love with Kate all over again." -- Popsugar If you enjoy a bit of mystery, some romance, a lot of laughter, talk of butt plugs and a huge vocabulary for.....well a man's.....YOU KNOW!!!! *falls over laughing* You need to read this book. I promise you will enjoy it. Just don't forget to wear adult diapers or at least be prepared to change your panties. It's pee in your pants kinda funny.

From the New York Times best-selling author of I Don't Know How She Does It comes an audiobook about starting over and facing life with a sense of humor.This book is written by former television presenter Jeremy Clarkson, I chose to read this because I have read several other books by him and their humorous and interesting topics have hooked me to his books. This book is written by small newspaper articles made by Clarkson put together to form a book. This was a good book. I really enjoyed it and sadly, related to a lot of it. With menopause looming in the near future, it was really fun to have her perspective on menopause and reaching fifty years of age. And then with the unhappy marriage and the teenagers to deal with as well, I found myself laughing and wanting to cry all the way through. Pearson features menopause as nearly its own character in this laugh-out-loud yet all too realistic romp through midlife concerns about aging, sexual appeal, careers for older employees, and family care issues. Spot on’ Library Journal, Starred Review And, you know, I really thought it would be fine, because what could be so bad in the life of a teenage girl that her mother couldn’t make it better? As you can probably guess, it is revealed that the indifferent husband is having an affair - with a 26 year-old fellow student. But that’s okay, because Kate has reunited with a client she fell in love with seven years before. (She nobly broke it off before anything happened.) Fast-forward to present day: they have an affair this time (that Kate breaks off again) so the cheating becomes a goose/gander sort of equation.