The Book of Mothers

The Book of Mothers by Carrie Mullins. How literature can help us reinvent motherhood.

Carrie has taken 15 classic books and the maternal women within them to give us a glimpse at motherhood through literature. It's an interesting book how she has taken women from books and dissected what kind of mothers they were, an example of modern versions of the women and her own insights to motherhood through her own experiences.

I never thought much about the good and bad of some of the mothers through some of the books. I haven't read all the books she samples but the ones that I have, for the most part, like Pride and Prejudice were indicative of the time they were written so this was a super interesting analysis.

I enjoyed much more than I was expecting until she came at Mrs. Weasley.. I will thrown down haha

It was a really well written and insightful read and I gave it 4.5 stars...