The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family |  | Author: Jeanne Marie Laskas
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 382040
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0553381490
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780553381498
ASIN: 0553381490
Publication Date: August 31, 2004
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Product Description
In Fifty Acres and a Poodle, Jeanne Marie Laskas described how she survived her first hilariously tumultuous year at Sweetwater Farm. Now she returns with a funny, touching, and personal new memoir of what happens after your dream comes true...
With a picture-postcard farm, a wonderful marriage, two mules, and a new refrigerator that spits crushed ice, what more can a girl ask for? That’s precisely the question Jeanne Marie asks herself as she and Alex settle into their new life at Sweetwater Farm. Two years ago they left the city behind for a life filled with the practical, often comical, lessons of living close to the land—and they never looked back. Yet when her strong-willed mom is hospitalized with a sudden and mysterious paralysis, Jeanne Marie rushes home to Philadelphia and her extended, sometimes chaotic, but always loving family. It’s there that she realizes what is still missing from her life: a family of her own. Now it’s a matter of bringing up the subject to her husband, Alex, fifteen years older and with adult children of his own, who seems terrified that she’s thinking of adopting a Chihuahua.
With warmth, wisdom, and unfailing humor, Laskas tells the poignant story of her search for motherhood—and what happens when a woman risks happily-ever-after for something even more precious. As she tends to her own ailing mother, Jeanne Marie discovers that the challenges and rewards of living with Mother Nature pale in comparison to those awakened by the nature of mothering.
The Exact Same Moon is filled with hilarious and heartwarming vignettes of people and a way of life you’ll be glad you met. From "borrowing" sheep to help mow the lawn and sitting in on the racy hay jokes at the Agway Equine Clinic, to befriending the notorious old lady who holds the water rights to their future pond, corrupting the neighbors with satellite TV, and learning the fine art of going a-calling, Laskas proves once again that laughter, love, and wisdom are truly homegrown.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Oh, how she makes me laugh! January 8, 2004
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I read the review of "The Exact Same Moon" in Adoptive Families magazine, and it sounded good. Since I like to read books in order, if they have an order, I read "Fifty Acres and a Poodle" first. All the way through it, I kept thinking to myself, 'she writes the way I think'! She makes me laugh and laugh out loud!! I also have an adopted daughter from China, and so I could totally relate with a lot of things she was going through throughout the book; and therefore, at points, it also brought me to tears! I highly recommend this book! And especially so if you've been through the adoption process!
A wonderful book! June 20, 2004
Susan L. Kuwitzky (Scottsdale, AZ United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just happened to chance upon this book in the library and once I started reading it, I could not put it down. What a wonderful writing style---so honest and refreshing---expressing many of the same feelings and thoughts that I have had, but have never put into words. This books is humorous, touching and gives wonderful insight and emotion into the Mother-Daughter and Mother-child relationship. It is just a happy, positive, uplifting book (even when things are not going right for the author) and I highly recommend it.
A gentle and touching read February 2, 2006
Gen of North Coast Gardening (California)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the kind of book that makes you feel so good, you want to press it on your friends. The writing is gentle and thoughtfully paced, and she writes about the kinds of everyday experiences and feelings we can all relate to.
The first book is Fifty Acres and a Poodle, which I'd recommend reading first. In this second book, the author is surprised by her unexpected but profound desire for a child to love and to share her world with. Her adoption of a little girl from China is written about with tenderness and deeply felt joy.
I can't wait for the next installment.
Entertaining and touching August 18, 2005
RWS book lover (Maryland)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I always enjoy Ms. Laskas' columns and looked forward to this book. I was not disappointed. Humorous but realistically touching as she deals with issues another mother certainly understands!
Read this aloud with someone you love November 9, 2006
Pam Garden (VA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this book aloud with my husband. It was like reading a letter from a friend, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and others wipe-a-tear sad. Although it's the story of moving from city to country life, it has relevance for anyone transitioning from one lifestyle to another. The situations are believable and the characters are funny and endearing. It's the kind of story that you know you'll miss when you reach the end. My husband has asked several times that I get the second book in what we hope will be a series by Ms. Laskas, so we can read aloud again.
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