Picked up this book in the Friends of the Library used book store (Wheaton, Maryland) today.

Ayelet Waldman is so on the money. She's top notch with this book. This book is a hands-down winner for anyone who has ever tried to worm one's way into a young child's heart and is not that child's parent. As a babysitting grandmother who also picks up a young boy from school as well as one who has also innocently tripped and caused her own young charge to fall down suddenly and violently, I empathized immensely with Emelia, the wife of Jack who is five-year-old William's dad. I, too, once had been the object of resistance in my early babysitting days when my grandson told his mom he didn't want to have fun with me on his babysitting days.

I don't approve of Emelia's affair with Jack but that was already a given part of this novel which I couldn't change. All I can say is that I totally loved reading about what hard work it is to earn that deep love a young child has to offer a non-parent adult. Once it's there, it will never go away. What a great book!

He is so smart, we say wordlessly. And such a little know-it-all.

I'm now tossing this book on to my husband TBR pile. I think he'd like this story.

I see that the story was made into the movie "The other Woman". I liked the trailer and would not mind viewing this film starring Natalie Portman as Emelia,

My husband liked this story a lot!

I'm releasing this book for the following BookCrossing challenge:

*** The 2016 June Brides Release Challenge hosted by NancyNova. This book has the word LOVE in the title.

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Happy reading!

I selected this book from the Little Free Library of Twinbrook (#7720) to travel elsewhere...

This book is being released at a BCinDC meetup at Tyson's Corner food court on the third floor, near the movie theater and Five Guys in Tysons 1. Enjoy the book...or, at least, keep it travelling! :)

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This came home from yesterday's BC-in-DC gathering with me. I'm planning to release it into the wild soon.

Left by a booster seat on the shelf next to the condiments.

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