by Rebecca Eckler
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Knocked Up may be a pregnancy journal, but the body part deemed most important by author Rebecca Eckler is certainly not the uterus. "Do you remember anything about these last three months?" Eckler asks her fiancé at the end of her second trimester. "They seem like such a blur to me." Says her beau, "All I remember is you asking, 'Is my ass fat?' 'Is my ass fat?' 'Is my ass fat?'"
Readers' memories of Knocked Up will likely be similar. In the opening scene, the National Post columnist is aghast after drunkenly insisting on having sex with her fiancé without protection. Her pregnancy paranoia turns out to be entirely justified, a turn of events that will have a radical impact on her carefree, girl-about-town lifestyle. Or maybe not--written in the breezy fashion of contemporary chick-lit, Knocked Up is less about profound life changes than about wondering if she'll ever be able to fit into size 26 jeans again. When not obsessing over her caboose, Eckler cracks wise about food urges, bad baby names (Apple?!), and hormonally induced crying jags. She also copes with a quasi-crush on a man she calls Single Cute Guy and a professional rivalry with the Sexy Young Intern who's taking her place at the Post.
Eckler provides plenty of scenes of Sex and the City-style banter with her friends, though few exchanges are as snappy as they need to be. Her writing is sufficiently breezy but rarely funny--clichés are common ("You can quote me on that") and she. Likes. To. Use. One. Word. Sentences. For. Emphasis. Even so, her irreverent disinterest in her own pregnancy sometimes yields amusing moments. "I am never studying another pregnancy book until I absolutely have no choice," she writes. "It will be just like high school. When I start having contractions, I'll cram." In the meantime, Knocked Up blithely pushes some contentious ideas about modern birthing, as when Eckler jokingly cites Vogue to support her choice of a C-section over a vaginal birth: "Once it's in Vogue, it's like the law." Ironically, a more dramatic birth scene would have better served the book. As it stands, the oddly muted climax is hardly enough to justify the 300-plus pages of navel-gazing that precede it. Nevertheless, women who find themselves having to sacrifice lives of fabulosity for modern motherhood may relish Eckler's unorthodox take on a subject that is usually treated with stultifying reverence. --Jason Anderson
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Rebecca Eckler is a popular newspaper columnist who lives the fabulous life and gets paid to write about it. So when a tipsy romp with her fiancé on the night of their lavish engagement party leaves her unexpectedly expecting, she is utterly at a loss. How will a woman who loves nothing more than a night out on the town sipping cocktails with her fellow party girls survive the pregnant life?
Knocked Up is the witty, engaging and refreshingly frank chronicle of a modern woman’s journey into motherhood. We follow Eckler from the first trimester (a.k.a. the longest three months of her life), through the “fat months” of the second trimester, on to the "even fatter months" of the third. Flipping the pages of this Bridget-Jones-style diary, we share in Eckler’s discovery of prenatal vitamins and nursing bras, ultrasounds and obstetricians. And we experience her growing horror at the physical symptoms of pregnancy: all-day “morning” sickness, fatigue, varicose veins, and cravings. And the weight gain, oh the weight gain. Who knew the day would come when she could no longer put on her own socks?
Along for the ride is a cast of characters as comical as any met in fiction. There’s the Sexy Young Intern, a Sophia Loren look-a-like with her skinny eyes set on Eckler’s job; the glamorous friends who continue to drink Manhattans, while Eckler sips Perrier; and the Cute Single Man who knows just when she needs a carton of ice cream or a game of Scrabble. And then there’s the fiancé, living in another city, who, thanks to the miracle of long-distance phone lines, appreciates better than anybody the highs and lows of the hormonal rollercoaster pregnant Eckler is on.
Lighthearted, intimate, and very funny, Knocked Up is the diary of a modern mother-to-be determined not to let pregnancy and motherhood change her life. Not. One. Little. Bit.
Knocked Up is the witty, engaging and refreshingly frank chronicle of a modern woman’s journey into motherhood. We follow Eckler from the first trimester (a.k.a. the longest three months of her life), through the “fat months” of the second trimester, on to the "even fatter months" of the third. Flipping the pages of this Bridget-Jones-style diary, we share in Eckler’s discovery of prenatal vitamins and nursing bras, ultrasounds and obstetricians. And we experience her growing horror at the physical symptoms of pregnancy: all-day “morning” sickness, fatigue, varicose veins, and cravings. And the weight gain, oh the weight gain. Who knew the day would come when she could no longer put on her own socks?
Along for the ride is a cast of characters as comical as any met in fiction. There’s the Sexy Young Intern, a Sophia Loren look-a-like with her skinny eyes set on Eckler’s job; the glamorous friends who continue to drink Manhattans, while Eckler sips Perrier; and the Cute Single Man who knows just when she needs a carton of ice cream or a game of Scrabble. And then there’s the fiancé, living in another city, who, thanks to the miracle of long-distance phone lines, appreciates better than anybody the highs and lows of the hormonal rollercoaster pregnant Eckler is on.
Lighthearted, intimate, and very funny, Knocked Up is the diary of a modern mother-to-be determined not to let pregnancy and motherhood change her life. Not. One. Little. Bit.
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