Of Mess and Moxie

If you don't know Jen Hatmaker, you need to read this .  She is so flipping hilarious!  This book can get a big preachy at times (she's a strong born-again-Christian), but her motherhood/women topics are so funny.  I marked my favorite passages in the back, so that I could refer back to them. I thought her other book, For the Love was funnier (the chapter on pants vs. leggings had me literally in tears), but this was a great read.  

Here's a sample from one of my favorite chapters, "My Soul Mate Netflix":

I don't want to overstate it, but Netflix is my soul mate.  Like Steely Dan said: I have found my home at last.  Any show, any network, movies, UK programming, original series, all in a digital library that is surely a foreshadowing of heaven.  Easily the best feature in the Netflix Rolodex of awesomeness:

Binge watching.

         Episode after episode, all in glorious succession with no commercials and only a ten-second window in which to end the binge and get your life back together, which you loosely consider during seconds one through seven, but then the next episode automatically begins and it's too late.  What are we supposed to do?  Turn it off at that point?  We're not Communists.  The fates decided for us, and so, with forbearance, we move on to episode eleven of "Gilmore Girls" and log our fifth straight hour on the couch.  After you auto-start the fourth episode, even Netflix itself throws shade with a pop-up screen: "Do you want to continue watching?" YES,I DO, NETFLIX.  I don't need your shame.  Pretty judgy for an entertainment platform that offers 132 episodes of "Xena: Warrior Princess".  Don't act like you're concerned about our mental intake. (p. 87-88)

Rating: B