Review of That's What Women Do by Claire D. Simone

I loved this book. 

Though presented as a biography of a normal, every-woman we follow Claire D. Simone from her youth to adulthood in a very candid look into the give and take of relationships. Here, Claire simply relates to her readers what most other woman are actually experiencing but not always talking about. 

I was both able to relate as well as see both sides of this oft-times awkward coin very clearly, and many of its points were informatively eye-opening. Although, I usually wanted to yell at her. "Don't keep it in. Start talking to him!" Or, more commonly, "Just get out and stop wasting your life, girl!"

The book is also very funny. I love this line on motherhood, and the pain of childbirth.

"Just because lots of people do it doesn't mean that it is any less painful or dangerous, does it??? Following this logic, the millions of people who perished during epidemics of influenza in the early twentieth century should have really pulled themselves together, instead of making all this fuss and dying in the most inconsiderate manner.

I also enjoyed all of the moments with her cheap grand-parents, while staying at their beach house; counting toiletpaper squares, and the odd seemingly never-ending chores.

Short, sometimes sweet and sometimes hard to look at, That's what Woman Do, is a book we should all read.

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Claire, I hope you get that spaceship one day. She knows what I mean.