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10/13/2009

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper: A Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Club

Tiwily For many of us, we find ourselves in the middle position, taking care of our kids and taking care of our aging parents. What happens when the unthinkable, and inevitable, happens - when one of our parents die? And what happens if your own life is pretty messed up when that happens? For October's Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers' monthly book club, we are reading and discussing a book that chronicles a slightly dysfunctional family as they spend time together following their father's death. 

Join in as Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers discuss book  This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper.

    More posts will be put up throughout the day on our writer's personal sites, so be sure to check back to follow along.

    New York City Moms Blog is hosting the book club discussion this month. Please go here to leave a comment and join in the discussion.

Read about the book This is Where I Leave You here.

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

If you are an author or a publisher and have a book that you would like to submit for consideration for a future Silicon Valley Moms Group book club, please contact us at info (at) svmoms dot com.

Posted by on 10/13/2009 at 01:00 AM in Book Club, Books | | Comments (0)

10/08/2009

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper: Join us for Silicon Valley Moms Group's next Book Club on Tuesday, October 13th

This is Where I Leave You book cover-2 Family relationships can be complicated. Aren't we all a little dysfunctional? Join us on Tuesday, October 13th as we discuss This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper for our next book club.

About the book: The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family-including Judd's mother, brothers, and sister-have been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd's wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd's radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.

Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the demise of his marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit to their patriarch's dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together. In the same house. Like a family.

As the week quickly spins out of control, longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed, and old passions reawakened. For Judd, it's a weeklong attempt to make sense of the mess his life has become while trying in vain not to get sucked into the regressive battles of his madly dysfunctional family. All of which would be hard enough without the bomb Jen dropped the day Judd's father died: She's pregnant.

This Is Where I Leave You is Jonathan Tropper's most accomplished work to date, a riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind-whether we like it or not.

Read along with us: Buy your copy of the book today and get ready to discuss with us on Tuesday, October 13th. See you at book club!

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

Posted by on 10/08/2009 at 01:00 AM in Book Club | | Comments (0)

09/29/2009

Do One Nice Thing by Debbie Tenzer: A Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Club

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September has brought a lot of back to school craziness to many moms, but we are also focusing on things outside of our own busy lives. This month, for Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers' monthly book club, we are reading and discussing a book full of nice things to help the world become a better place. 

Join in as Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers discuss book Do One Nice Thing by Debbie Tenzer.

    More posts will be put up throughout the day on our writer's personal sites, so be sure to check back to follow along.

    New Jersey Moms Blog is hosting the book club discussion this month. Please go here to leave a comment and join in the discussion.

Read about the book Do One Nice Thing here.

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

If you are an author or a publisher and have a book that you would like to submit for consideration for a future Silicon Valley Moms Group book club, please contact us at info (at) svmoms dot com.

Posted by on 09/29/2009 at 01:00 AM in Book Club, Community Outreach | | Comments (0)

09/16/2009

Do One Nice Thing by Debbie Tenzer: Join us for Silicon Valley Moms Group's next Book Club on Tuesday, September 29th

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How do we, as parents, make the world a better place? A nicer place? Has it changed since we became parents? Can it really take doing one nice thing? Join us on Tuesday, September 29th as we discuss Do One Nice Thing by Debbie Tenzer for our next book club.

About the book: A few years ago, Debbie Tenzer was feeling overwhelmed by all the crises in the news. But rather than give in to despair, she thought, Maybe I can’t solve our big problems, but I know I can do something. She realized that helping doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive or time-consuming. You can help simply by doing one nice thing. So that’s what she vowed to do, one day a week. Not every day–she says she’s not that nice–but once a week was a promise she could keep.

So she started a website, DoOneNiceThing.com, and each week she posted an easy way to help people around town or across the globe. Good news traveled fast, and now Debbie is the leader of a worldwide kindness movement with fellow Nice-o-holics in ninety countries. They’ve sent . . .

• cans of food to food banks and schools
• notebooks to soldiers who will give them to Afghan children
• gifts to foster children whose birthdays are overlooked
• and much more

Do One Nice Thing has many new, easy ideas for small deeds that anyone can do (and includes explicit information on how exactly to execute the ideas, so you don’t have to go digging for information or resources). There’s even a chapter of nice things you can do in minutes without leaving your desk.

Join Debbie and her army of Nice-o-holics, and give the world some help–and some hope. Best of all, the more help you give, the more hopeful you’ll feel. And before you know it, you won’t be able to stop.

Read along with us: Buy your copy of the book today and get ready to discuss with us on Tuesday, September 29th. See you at book club!

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

Posted by on 09/16/2009 at 01:00 AM in Book Club, Community Outreach | | Comments (0)

08/12/2009

Birth Day by Mark Sloan, M.D.: A Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Club

Birth Day by Mark Sloan, M.D. This month for Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers' monthly book club we read a unique book - stories of birth, told from the perspective of a doctor. And a man. Hmmmm...think we might have some stories too?

Join in as Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers discuss book Birth Day by Mark Sloan, M.D..

    More posts will be put up throughout the day on our writer's personal sites, so be sure to check back to follow along.

    .... and if you have a post up on YOUR personal site on this topic, please leave a comment here and we will add your link!

Read about the book Birth Day here.

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

If you have a book that you would like to submit for consideration for a future Silicon Valley Moms Group book club, please contact us at info (at) svmoms dot com.

Posted by on 08/12/2009 at 04:00 AM in Birth & Adoption Stories, Book Club | | Comments (0)

08/08/2009

Birth Day by Mark Sloan, M.D.: Join us for Silicon Valley Moms Group's next Book Club on Wednesday, August 12th

Birth Day by Mark Sloan, M.D. As moms, we all tend to get talking about our birth stories from time to time. What do our collective birth days (either those of our kids, whether we birthed them or adopted them, or...our stories of our own births) reveal about us? Join us next Wednesday, August 12th as we discuss the book Birth Day by Mark Sloan, M.D. and talk about our birth days for our next book club.

About the book - Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth (from the publisher, Random House's, website:

"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school.”—from Birth Day

So began Mark Sloan’s three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Birth Day, Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture into a fascinating—and often funny—tapestry of this fundamental human passage.

Birth Day takes the reader on a remarkable journey, from the dawn of human history to the quiet efficiency of a modern operating room; from Aristotle and Julius Caesar to a trailblazing, cross-dressing British army surgeon; from a recent past filled with the horrors of childbirth gone wrong to a present day, in which every pregnancy is expected to end happily. Some of Birth Day’s many topics include

• The evolution of human childbirth—or, why do gorillas have it so easy?
• The first five minutes of life—scuba divers, astronauts, and the amazing adaptations that transform a fetus into an air-breathing, out-in-the-world baby
• Cesarean section—a look at its origins, its future, and how it came to be the most frequently performed operation in American hospitals
• Pain and politics—the age-old quest for painless childbirth, starring Adam and Eve, Queen Victoria, a nineteenth-century medical brawl, and the rise of today’s “epidural monoculture”
• Daddies—raging paternal hormones, hidden anxieties, and the emotional evolution of men (including the author, his father, and grandfather) as they approach fatherhood
• The five senses at birth—does light enter the womb? how loud is it in there? what is a newborn baby searching for with those first anxious glances?
• A tour of the newborn body—springy skulls, hairy ears, innies and outies, the advantages (and disadvantages) of looking like your father, and why the United States is one of the world’s most circumcised nations

Delightfully instructive and entertaining, Birth Day offers a fresh, sometimes irreverent take on a universally familiar topic. Warm, reassuring, and packed with stories from the author’s work and life, this unique book is one pediatrician’s meditation on the hiding-in-plain-sight marvels of human birth.

Read along with us: Buy your copy of the book today and get ready to discuss with us on Wednesday, August 12th. See you at book club!

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

Posted by on 08/08/2009 at 01:00 AM in Birth & Adoption Stories, Book Club | | Comments (0)

07/17/2009

What Happened to the Girl I Married? by Michael Miller: A Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Club

What Happened to the Girl I Married?-1 Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers' monthly book club is tackling a subject today that can become heated. What DO stay-at-home-moms do all day?? We are a diverse group here on Silicon Valley Moms Group - we are SAHMs, working moms, WAHMs, moms somewhere in between. We ALL have different perspectives and we're sharing them today as we discuss what this guy, this dad, a Silicon Valley executive, learned when he walked a year in his SAHM wife's shoes. 

Join in as Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers discuss the book What Happened to the Girl I Married? by Michael Miller.

    More posts will be put up throughout the day on our writer's personal sites, so be sure to check back to follow along.

    .... and if you have a post up on YOUR personal site on this topic, please leave a comment here and we will add your link!

About the book - read a description here.

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

Posted by on 07/17/2009 at 03:45 AM in Book Club, Books, Mom challenges | | Comments (0)

07/10/2009

What Happened to the Girl I Married?: Join us for Silicon Valley Moms Group's next Book Club on Friday, July 17th

What Happened to the Girl I Married?-1 Let's face it - sometimes a couple's relationship changes once they have kids. Join us Friday, July 17th as we discuss the book What Happened to the Girl I Married by Michael Miller and talk about what we think happened for our next book club.

About What Happened to the Girl I Married (from the author's website): In What Happened to the Girl I Married?, Miller steps out of his corporate executive job and into his wife’s uncomfortable shoes at home. With no staff or administrative assistants to support him, Miller’s “ah hah moments” begin on day one and become more profound with each step down the path. Through his journey, Miller offers a new found appreciation for the tireless efforts of stay-at-home mothers and clues as to why women might lose themselves in the job. For the men they married, Miller lets them connect with his evolution through humor, man-isms and motivations for change that are hard to resist.

In his journey to enlightenment in What Happened to the Girl I Married?, through both laughter and tears, Miller provides readers with:

  • A revealing perspective on the job of a stay-at-home parent and appreciation for it’s unique challenges
    (from a man who never had it)
  • Creative imagery and colorful examples to help communicate the job’s complexities and the feelings they can generate that are sometimes hard to put into words
  • A non-threatening way for the partner of the stay-at-home parent to examine how their words and actions might be contributing to a loss of self worth and identity
  • Ideas for small, manageable changes that can have a big impact on the relationship, and how the stay-at-home parent feels about themselves and their job
  • A simple terminology that both partners can use to help get their love affair back on track and keep it that way

What Happened to the Girl I Married? is an honest and enlightening love story that’s funny and thought-provoking throughout. The story’s messages help heal old wounds and offer both partners a language to get back on a loving path together – and stay on it.

Read along with us: Buy your copy of the book today and get ready to discuss with us on Friday, July 17th. See you at book club!

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

Posted by on 07/10/2009 at 07:00 AM in Book Club, Mom challenges | | Comments (0)

06/28/2009

Testimony by Anita Shreve: A Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Club

Testimony by Anita Shreve This month, for Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers' monthly book club, we read a novel that many of us, as mothers, found tough to read. But probably every mother should read it. And their teenagers too - especially their teenagers.

Join in as Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers discuss the book Testimony by Anita Shreve.

    More posts will be put up throughout the day on our writer's personal sites, so be sure to check back to follow along.

    .... and if you have a post up on YOUR personal site on this topic, please leave a comment here and we will add your link!

About the book - from the publisher Hachette Book Group:

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.

Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in TESTIMONY a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

Posted by on 06/28/2009 at 10:58 PM in Book Club, Mom challenges, Sexuality | | Comments (0)

05/27/2009

What's Cooking - A Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Club on "Comfort Food" by Kate Jacobs

Comfort Food There are quite a lot of foodies among us, but we are also readers, writers, mothers, friends, colleagues...rivals, people who are searching for themselves?

Today, Silicon Valley Moms Group bloggers are enjoying our monthly book club, eating...and discussing the book Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs.

    More posts will be put up throughout the day on our writer's personal sites, so be sure to check back to follow along.

    .... and if you have a post up on YOUR personal site on this topic, please leave a comment here and we will add your link!

Past Silicon Valley Moms Group Book Clubs have included:

Posted by on 05/27/2009 at 06:00 AM in Book Club, Food | | Comments (0)

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