I'm only a few pages in and I'm hooked. This woman is me, plain and simple. I'm sitting here wondering when Emily Griffin found the time to sit down and write a book all about me. I'm really hoping the main character doesn't sell out in the end to garner the mass-appeal of chick-lit readers. If she does, I might have to swear off Ms. Griffin for good. So far, though, she understands me, which lets me know that there are other women out there who feel exactly the way I do about the prospect of ha...

Emily Giffin has the literary capacity to create the most aggravating, unlikable characters in all of chick-lit that I positively can't stand and yet somehow by the end of the novel I am empathising with and rooting for every single one. She gets me every time and quite frankly I'm sick of your shit, Giffin!I'm going to come right out and say it: people who say they don't want children astound me. It's fine! I respect it! It just really surprises me. So I struggled to grasp the concept of this b...

Yet another Emily Giffin novel, and I think it was okay for the most part. The thing I HATE about Giffin as a writer is she makes a really interesting, difficult scenario that makes you sympathize with her characters, and then she can't think of how to solve the moral dilemma, so near the end of her books she pulls something COMPLETELY horrible, whether it's a cliché plot development or a seriously erroneous logical argument for making her characters change motives (an anti-feminist/anti-individ...

This book annoyed me. I couldn't figure out why at first, and then I realized it - I don't agree with the author's message. The protagonist spends the whole book trying to get over her ex-husband who left her because she didn't want children. In the end, they reconcile because while she still doesn't want children, she'd consider having them to be with her soulmate. I think that is a selfish notion - yes, it seems unselfish to procreate because you love your husband so much and that is what he w...

This is one of the WORST books I have ever read. Please do not torture yourself.

D This book reminded me of why I don't like chick lit -- unrealistic expensive Manhattan lifestyles obsession with finding love partner. Anyway, this seemed more promising -- a woman finds a man who also doesn't want kids (yay! Perfect for me--like T!) and then he changes his mind, and the whole drama. An ending to gag over.

Usually, I tend to shy away from books in the chick lit genre. When I saw "Baby Proof" on the shelf, I was instantly drawn to this book for some reason. After reading the book jacket, I knew this was definitely going to be an interesting read to say the least. Claudia and Ben are the perfect couple...at least to everyone around them anyway. Claudia is a successful book editor and Ben is a successful architect who are both enjoying their married childfree life. Although they both agreed in the da...

If you picked this up because you loved Something Borrowed/Something Blue, don’t bother. This may as well have been written by a completely different author...and a far less talented one. This was paint by the numbers, with dated/occasionally borderline offensive ideas and main characters who don’t seem to care as much as they claim they do. The main conflict isn’t really resolved- and it felt like a cowardly choice to keep every possible reader somewhat happy. The only vaguely compelling charac...

It's quite a brave topic to tackle - women who don't want children. In this day and age, I think it's almost the last taboo. But it is the topic that author Emily Giffin addresses in "Baby Proof". Knowing that the story would focus on this issue, I worried it would end up being black and white with a watered down and easily digestible ending but Emily Giffin kept to her usual high standard as I read my way through a messy, emotional, complicated and realistic story.Despite such a sensitive and e...

Wonderful heartwarming story.

I have mixed feelings about this book. I had picked this up as the third novel by Ms. Giffin, having already read her first two ( Something Borrowed, Something Blue). All the characters in her books seem to be somewhat interrelated, and the back cover looked interesting, especially since I, like the heroine, am a thirty-something woman exceedingly tired of being asked when I will have children. Like Katherine Hepburn, I suspect I am just far too selfish to make a decent mother, and I think it s...

Ugh. It's very rare that I get this pissed off by a book, especially such random chick lit. This review contains spoilers, so don't read anymore if you ever plan to read this book.Ok, here goes:The story was about a NYC couple, Ben & Claudia, that are madly in love. They both agreed before marriage that they never want kids, but after a close friend had a baby, Ben changes his mind. It's out of the question for Claudia, and since neither will compromise, they promptly divorce. (and this was the

“There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.” ― Emily Giffin, Baby ProofI chose this because the premise seemed interesting. I too chose not to have children as did many of my friends. So I wanted to read this and I had already read the "Something Borrowed" series.While not quite up to that level, I did enjoy thi...

As I've read and enjoyed each of Emily Giffin's other books, I fully expected to enjoy this book. It was definitely not the case. Most of Giffin's characters are smart, educated, professional women; they are also strong - in that they don't necessarily fall full-force into a stereotypical "I'll compromise my goals and ideals in order to keep a man." In fact, even though her protagonist in "Heart of the Matter" decides to take her cheating husband back, Giffin still manages to paint the wronged w...

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?Women who don't want children? Are they monsters? That's how society makes us feel if you don't want babies. I was like that for awhile... slightly still am (I rather have dogs than babies) so maybe that's why I enjoyed this book, because I was able to relate to the main character. However, I gave it four stars because Claudia a...

I loved Giffin's first two books, Something Borrowed and Something Blue, so I had high hopes for this book. Instead I was left with a resentful disappointment.Firstly, why is it that novels set in NYC have to be gushing odes to the city? This book name drops worse than a D-lister trying to get into a hot Hollywood club. Restaurants, street names, the Brooklyn Bridge - there's even a paragraph devoted to the skyline post-9/11. WE GET IT. THE BOOK IS SET IN NEW YORK.The plot is ludicrous, formulai...

RTC check out latest update for end of book feelings. I think I'm going to eviscerate this book. Warning, I'm probably going to tear this book up. I dunno. It's not that I didn't like it, exactly. It's that I didn't like Claudia and as a main character she was very unlikable. So I might rant. A lot.Let me get out my notes that I wrote right after I finished this book.Alright here we go. I'm sorry but I have to say it. This author can't write. At least not in a way I appreciate. The way the book

Giffin's writing style and subject matter was what enticed me to listen to this book on CD. I listened to "Something Borrowed" on a weekend car trip and it was so good it felt like a guilty pleasure. Self-indulging in female mellow drama seems to be my thing. This book did not disappoint, it exceeded my expectations. The subject matter hit a bit closer to home than Giffin's 1'st book. Now that I'm closing out my 20's and have a husband and a house, I'm constantly surrounded by baby talk. It was

The plot is completely unbelievable - are we supposed to believe the so called perfect couple gets divorced after what seems to be about 2 weeks of arguing about having a baby? Then is it possible that most of the people around the wife are having child issues (kids keeping someone in a bad marriage, not being able to conceive, conceiving with a married boyfriend) at the same time? It's insulting to the readers intelligence... and that is what makes it the perfect beach read. If that is what you...

the end was kinda abrupt BUT this has to be one of the first book that I've read were the main character doesn't want a child and we are shown how that decision affects not only her life, but her husband's and their family.I loved it. I don't want children either and I could totally relate to Claudia.(which is funny, because everyone is saying she is spoiled selfish and whiny and yet I thought she was like my missing sister lol)