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In our mothers' day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, and occasionally great mothers.Today we have only Bad Mothers.If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay home, you're smothering. If you discipline, you're buying them a spot on the shrink's couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. If you buy organic, you're spending their college fund; if you don't, you're risking all sorts of allergies and illnesses.Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as \"a bad mother\"? Ayelet Waldman says it's time for women to get over it and get on with it, in a book that is sure to spark the same level of controversy as her now legendary \"Modern Love\" piece, in which she confessed to loving her husband more than her children.Covering topics as diverse as the hysteria of competitive parenting (Whose toddler can recite the planets in order from the sun?), the relentless pursuits of the Bad Mother police, balancing the work-family dynamic, and the bane of every mother's existence (homework, that is), Bad Mother illuminates the anxieties that riddle motherhood today, while providing women with the encouragement they need to give themselves a break.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx294e7p57mf2qqewbpdyx8v.jpg?v=d25f3af4c2","LBNd%gxG77WZY8tRxtt61SWBrpj]",2009,213,[408],{"id":409,"slug":410,"name":411},"01kph46ag4wr9n2masb0c0rh7h","ayelet-waldman-d8ha","Ayelet Waldman",[413,414,415],{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},{"id":147,"name":148,"slug":149,"is_fiction":18},{"id":416,"name":417,"slug":418,"is_fiction":18},88,"Biography","biography",[],{"pace":126,"complexity":7,"audience":88,"mood":421,"themes":422,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[90,92],[],{"id":424,"slug":425,"title":426,"description":427,"primary_cover_url":428,"cover_blurhash":429,"first_publish_year":9,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":430,"authors":431,"genres":436,"series":447,"enrichment":448},"01kx24qkrp1pkp7bcr49qpp0dd","no-hope-for-gomez-dtzm","No Hope for Gomez!","It's the age-old tale: Boy meets girl. Boy stalks girl. Girl already has a stalker. Boy becomes her stalker-stalker. We've seen it all before, many times, but this time it's different. If only slightly. When Gomez Porter becomes a test subject in an experimental drug trial, he is asked to keep track of any strange experiences through a blog. What Gomez isn't ready for, is so many of his experiences suddenly seeming strange; the antiques dealer trying to buy his old tax papers, his neighbor boiling salamanders on his balcony at midnight, the super sexy lab assistant who falls for him but is unable to express herself in terms outside the realm of science. But when one of the trial participants turns up dead and another goes missing, Gomez begins to fear for his life. No longer sure who he can trust and which of his experiences are real and which merely drug induced illusions, he decides it%u2019s time to go underground and work out a devious plan. Now, years later, his blogs have been recovered from a defunct server. For the first time we can find out firsthand what happened to Gomez as he takes us on a wild ride of discovery.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx24qks9ysyq4b2ja7wz1kaq.jpg?v=0f7edd8f6e","LBRp8+~V~WE1.9Ngt8%LDiIAad?b",193,[432],{"id":433,"slug":434,"name":435},"01kx24qks3sbzhgbwx9622dj7j","graham-parke-7e8z","Graham Parke",[437,438,442,446],{"id":337,"name":338,"slug":339,"is_fiction":19},{"id":439,"name":440,"slug":441,"is_fiction":19},5,"Thriller","thriller",{"id":443,"name":444,"slug":445,"is_fiction":19},40,"Suspense","suspense",{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":126,"complexity":7,"audience":88,"mood":449,"themes":452,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[188,450,451],"tense","thought-provoking",[],{"id":454,"slug":455,"title":456,"description":457,"primary_cover_url":458,"cover_blurhash":459,"first_publish_year":460,"community_rating_avg":281,"community_rating_count":87,"page_count":461,"authors":462,"genres":467,"series":470,"enrichment":471},"01kx2582hg0rcdvxt0hmw00ez3","freckle-juice-jthk","Freckle Juice","A second-grader named Andrew is desperate for a few freckles like his classmate Nicky, so he buys a concoction called \"freckle juice\" from another girl in class. After drinking the foul-tasting mixture and waking up with an upset stomach, he realizes it was just grape juice mixed with other condiments — but still tries to convince everyone at school that it worked by drawing freckles on his face with a marker.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2582hye5zjnc7eyenv9q37.jpg?v=49bcdd4217","LDSigQ~q_3D%_3M{M{xu~qD%9F?b",2014,64,[463],{"id":464,"slug":465,"name":466},"01kjtdy8f0z8yvrtef3db84hjt","judy-blume-rd6x","Judy Blume",[468,469],{"id":232,"name":233,"slug":234,"is_fiction":19},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":126,"complexity":7,"audience":127,"mood":472,"themes":473,"setting_period":7,"summary":457,"content_warnings":7},[90,91],[295,254],{"id":475,"slug":476,"title":477,"description":478,"primary_cover_url":479,"cover_blurhash":480,"first_publish_year":460,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":481,"authors":482,"genres":487,"series":490,"enrichment":491},"01kx24phydvnmah0wty52pebzx","things-grak-hates-1xzl","Things Grak Hates","Grak hates things. Lots of things. And with a peculiar intensity too. Grak's contempt is so strong, in fact, that it often leaves his fellow tribesmen bewildered. And when attempting to describe his personality, they find themselves in need of words with greater nuance. \"Neurotic\" is typically used. \"Sociopath\" and \"narcissist\" are also common terms. The most popular descriptor, however, is \"pathological.\" Grak, on the other hand, sees his situation in a rather different light. He finds his behavior \"necessary\" and \"selfless,\" or even \"benevolent\" when his mood is just so. Most often, though, he simply attributes his nature to \"being human.\" But of all the things Grak despises, his antipathy for olives takes precedence. In his efforts to be rid of this nuisance, he gets his first taste of power and ignites a series of events with troubling consequences. Unwilling to give up his newfound influence, he sets about honing his only true talent: manipulation. But as his grip tightens, Grak's naively selfish exterior crumbles to reveal a dark and malicious evil ... In his debut work, author Peter J Story brews a robust psychological satire infused with dry humor and a pinch of emotion. Set just prior to recorded history, Things Grak Hates chronicles the life of a bizarre nomad and his descent toward evil. Along the way, this unconventional allegory explores a variety of complex issues. Among them: power, politics, religion, redemption, the dissemination of ideas, and human nature itself.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fcontributions\u002Fwork\u002F01\u002F01kx24phydvnmah0wty52pebzx_6a4ef3a3c966d.jpg?v=2a609a8746","L5QJcSITIT~p-.bHt7oLyDxuxtRP",334,[483],{"id":484,"slug":485,"name":486},"01kx24phyqwatawn0dhzrn3ve4","peter-j-story-gqwb","Peter J. 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A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” (The New Yorker). Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx24mzg8wfnnbds3jgb3r4k3.jpg?v=48cfb2aea4","L7P?{s=|u3*I-Ua1XlTI.RtlnOrr",2004,224,[532],{"id":533,"slug":534,"name":535},"01kx24mzg14wnwr840tjk0bw10","laura-kipnis-qoft","Laura Kipnis",[537,538,542],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":539,"name":540,"slug":541,"is_fiction":18},103,"Society","society",{"id":543,"name":544,"slug":545,"is_fiction":18},83,"Sociology","sociology",[],{"pace":85,"complexity":7,"audience":88,"mood":548,"themes":549,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[451,213],[],[]]