Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home

by Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose

MY MOTHER SENDS ME EMAILS IN ALL CAPS SO IT ALWAYS SEEMS LIKE SHE IS YELLING. SO IN HER STYLE I WILL SAY, I LOVE THIS BOOK -Margaret Cho Love, Mom is a hilarious look at what happens when interfering,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401323421
• ISBN13: 9781401323424
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 6.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

I AM my mother!

Oh my gosh! It's been a long time since I laughed so hard at a book I was reading! This brought tears to my eyes. These ALL could have been written by my mother and I'm just glad to know I'm normal! Any daughter has GOT to read this one. Pass it along to your friends. Give it to a mother for Mother's Day! Give it to your best friend whose daughter is leaving for college..... Very, very funny!

I loved "Love, Mom."

I loved this little collection of email exchanges between mothers and their kids (mostly daughters). They're funny, poignant, or sometimes even harsh, never contrived but always an honest expression of their relationships.

Funny and relatable

I bought this for my mom for Mother's Day and couldn't help myself - I read it before mailing it to her. I'm a longtime fan of Postcards, but I knew the best way to share the hilarity with my technically-impaired mom was to get her the book. It's a sweet, funny, wholesome book that gently and playfully celebrates mothers of adults and shares their motherly wisdom through developing technology. More than once, while reading it, I thought to myself, 'that's my mom!' I laughed through the whole thing and can't wait for my mom to read it, too.

Hilarious!

This was a gift from one of my grown daughters, and how appropriate! Emails have become the primary form of communication today for a lot of us since most people have become so busy with family, career, and are always on the go; there's not always time for a catching-up telephone call. Some of these are sweet, some make absolutely no sense, some give advice or note the goings-on of the day, and others are just, well, emails. Be sure to buy the hardcover instead of the Kindle edition. The quality of the paper, 6" x 7" size, and different fonts make it a very special eye-catching book, suitable for a coffee or end table for just picking up and browsing.

Sweet, Funny, and Universal Notes from All Kinds of Moms

Reading these emails is somewhat like taking a tour through "cyberspace," circa the 1990's. In many of these notes, moms make goofy allusions to various forms of technology. In others, they find new and invasive ways of keeping up with their children. Some are very short and sweet, and others reveal things that moms might not be able to share with their adult kids in any other form. It's a perfect gift for a mom (or grandmother, even), but what's genius about it is that even the most tech-savvy blogger type will also get a chuckle or five out of these motherly mash notes. You're very likely to recognize your own mom in these emails...or be grateful you were spared some of these probing "I've been reading your blog" type notes. Fans of Postcards from Yo Mamma and new readers will enjoy this; seeing all the entries together is a reminder that checking up on one's kids is pretty universal, as is mothers not letting propriety or anything else stop them from having their say.