I adored Emily Giffin’s Something Borrowed and Something Blue, so I was looking forward to Baby Proof the moment I heard it was on its way.

Baby Proof is about a married couple, Claudia and Ben, who have a great relationship. They hit it off on their first date, realising they are alike in so many ways and they are comfortable with each other. They agree on so many things, including that neither of them has ever wanted a child and won’t want one in the future. They get married, they enjoy their life as a child-free couple; traveling, staying up or sleeping in late, etc. Then, after a few years of marriage, it turns out that Ben is starting to feel like he wants children after all.

Months go by, with Ben dropping subtle and not-so-subtle hints and their friends and family applying pressure on them. Ben starts pointing out children he thinks could look like their own if they were to have one. Claudia starts pointing out how difficult children are, telling him their careers and their lifestyle would suffer for it, changing completely. Eventually, Ben begins to beg, saying he would stay at home with the baby and do all the work, even getting up in the night to feed it and doing all the diapers changes, making her the single-most rested mother in the world. Claudia soon feels betrayed, reminding him that they had a deal from the very beginning that there would be no children and she will not change her mind. It eventually comes to the point where a huge argument occurs and she flat out tells him he has to choose between her and a child. Ben chooses a child. (more…)

With summer here and the weather being so nice, I’ve been looking forward to spending some time reading outdoors; however, for the last two years I couldn’t do that because my backyard was pretty much a dirt field. But over the last few weekends, we’ve been working very hard on the landscaping (which was lots of hard work that took up our free time every weekend and thus reduced my reading opportunities). And now, we’ve finally finished with the digging/ shoveling/hauling, and the laying of the hundreds of paving stones, and just last weekend we actually were able to sod the yard (ooooh! grass!) and it’s now basically finished. So I was very eager to open up the patio furniture we got as a wedding present, and which had been stored, unopened, in our garage for the last year and a half. But now f-i-n-a-l-l-y, I was able to fulfill that desire to relax in the comfort of my own yard with a cold drink and a novel to read. Yay!

So I’ve had this book ready to read for a long time, and over the last couple of weeks I attempted to read a chapter or two before bed if I could stay awake long enough after the long hours of hard work, but it still it took me a while to get into it. So, with my newly landscaped yard and a free Friday evening ahead of me, I got my cold drink and sat myself down in a cushy patio chair and dedicated a few hours to it. Now, I wouldn’t say it was time wasted, but it was probably not the best read for the long wait.

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I look forward to superhero movies. X-Men, Batman, Superman… I always figure they will be action-packed, visually-exciting shows; however, the majority of these movies fall short on the storylines, and Superman Returns is no exception.

This movie is supposed to take place 5 years after the last Superman movie. Superman has abruptly disappeared after learning that astronomists claim to have found the remains of Krypton. Without saying goodbye to anyone other than his adoptive mother, Martha Kent, he leaves to find this planet (somehow he also happened to have a space craft ready to take him there and to crash land him back to Earth). What his huge rush was to get going right now considering how many years he’s been on Earth already, I have no idea. But whatever… he left.

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