Caitlin Moran: if you are a mumsnetter, can I just say your book is a great read?

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Well, I've said it anyway. Read on hols, will have to reread as I read it far too greedily :)

It really is! I loved it.

She certainly used to be one - don't know if that's still the case.
I was a bit "meh" re the book myself - I feel like I've missed something. Like I don't get a punchline.

I was really underwhelmed by the book, I have to say - wish she'd stuck to the biographical stuff, which was pretty funny, without shoehorning in the lame 'feminism' bits.

Was she really? Using what name?

The feminism is the premise of the book- the autobiographical stuff is the frame it hangs on. Hardly shoehorning, from what I can see.

I don't agree with her every point, but I thought it wad a pacey entertaining read, and a good introduction to feminism for readers who aren't that familiar.

I think the saem as LeBOF. I thought it was aimed at younger women than me, and wish it had been available to me as a teenager. That and I Am An Emotional Creature would of set me up nicely :)

I loved the parts regarding her family, coming from a large family myself. Didn't particularly like the two chapters on being a parent/not being a parent.

I could imagine it being shouted out like the 'come on girls!!!' at the beginning of Madonna's 'Express Yourself'.

I found the exclamation marks really annoying, the messages really patronizing and it was definitely aimed at the younger fake tan and wkd generation. I also found it a bit smug the way she kept name dropping and harping on about what a crazy card she is.

Didn't enjoy it at all. Caitlin comes across as much more likeable in her columns than this book.

loved the book

also loved the digested read by John Crace in the Guardian

That's hilarious

innit, tho

Interestingly, i thought it was shit.
i left it on holiday.

Like being trapped in a room with a showy offy 8 year old

and this from YOU shoppingbags

i am distraught tbh

Really? I thought she was funny, loved the chapter when she gave birth too. Agree it works better as an autobiography than a guide to 'being a woman'

P.s Annette you never like the books I like- at least there were no forrin names in this one!

I threw it in the bin on the beach as all the pages fell out from the heat, I don't think that I missed anything by not reading the missing pages. A load of self laudatory tripe!

It was wonderful and when my daughter is a teenager I will give it to her. I loved it.