Odd Mom Out

great book

The Odd Mom Out by Jane Porter
Marta works at home in the advertising area. She attends PTA's and just does NOT feel like she belongs - her ideas, and clothing, her lifestyle, nothing.
Eva her daughter is all about fitting in. Her mom overhear the women talking about her daughter and her clothes. She is devastated but so happy her daughter
didn't hear.
Her daughter wants her to hang around with other mothers in hopes she will become more like them, dress properly and feminine and not stand out by wearing her
combat boots, holy jeans and driving her motorcycle.
Marta has vowed to never fall in love with a guy again but she keeps running into a macho man everywhere she goes in town.
She deals with business problems and her daughter is acting out by doing cruel things to herself, and her mom being sick isn't helping.
I like this book for a few reasons: the mom is going through wandering around lost as she has alzeihemers, hits home as we are dealing with the disease with a family
member. Like the scenery of the Seattle area-places I've yet to go when we visit my daughter and her family.
Her friend who travels to visit them puts her foot down and intervenes to get her to start dating.
Her daughter is also helping in that regard.
Is this just what she needed or should she get back to working in her business as it's on a downfall? As life goes on
business is now her personal life, they are one.

Entertaining read...you will be cheering for Marta!

Great read, my first by this author. Love how she develops Marta to be this kick-a$$ woman, who shows her vulnerability and doubts with child rearing, and love. Enjoyed the relationship building between Marta and Luke. Pretty good character developement and very entertaining!

A Fun Read!

This was my first Jane Porter book and I was surprised at how good it was! Jane does a great job of relating motherhood, work, and acceptance---this book has something for every woman. I read this book in about 2-3 days and was dying for more,I couldn't wait to see what happened with Marta, Eva, and Taylor.

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A fun read!

Enjoyable, light read without being "cotton candy." Fun!

Loved this!

One of the best first person books I've ever read and the humor had me laughing out loud.

I came away with nothing - not even a chuckle.

I thought the book was one big whine from an over privileged character, whose selfishness drove her life.

Loved it!

Odd mom out was a great book and left me wanting to read the rest of the series asap.

Loved it!

This was the first book I read by this author and it will not be the last. I LOVED this book!! I was hooked from page one. I loved Marta's spunk and how she handled herself with the stay-at-home moms. I felt her internal struggle with trying to validate her daughter's feelings about being friends with the popular girls, however trying to raise her daughter to just be herself. Marta prides herself on being independent and created a world that she doesn't allow anyone in, in fear that it will disrupt her life. Then she meets Luke and realizes that she hasn't been living at all. I can't wait to read the follow-up 'Mrs. Perfect'. 4.5/5

A reviewer

Odd Mom Out is a humorous look at managing motherhood, a business, volunteer work, an ill mother and a relationship. Marta Zinsser and her daughter, Eva, move from Manhattan to the Eastside of Seattle to be closer to her mother, who has Alzheimer¿s. Life in Manhattan was easier, Marta never worried about fitting in. The affluent neighborhood she now lives in is filled with cookie cutter moms. Nine year old, Eva wants to be the most popular girl in school but the in crowd is cruel and not accepting. When she purchases a book with instructions on how to be popular, Eva begins a quest to conform her and her mother to the local norm. Marta is a devoted, single mother, having made a baby by ordering sperm off the internet, and runs an ad business from her home. She drives a Harley, wears combat boots and doesn¿t believe in conforming. However, for her daughter¿s happiness she consents to be a room mother, chaperone on field trips and do volunteer work at the school. No matter how hard she tries the ¿A Team,¿ is rude and snooty. Marta has not been on a date in ten years. When she meets, tall, dark and handsome, Luke Flynn she feels an immediate connection. Juggling motherhood, a business, volunteer work, an ill mother, and a relationship is not easy but Marta is up to the challenge. Odd Mom Out is a book about the relationships, having faith in yourself, taking chances and learning to trust others. The love Marta and her daughter have for each other is an accurate depiction of a true mother daughter connection Marta is a character women can relate to, she is intelligent, independent and yet vulnerable. Jane Porter is talented, she manages to blend humor, and warmth to create a story woman will enjoy.

Being the Same as Everyone Else is Boring!!!

I seriously had trouble putting this book down. Every spare minute I had, I'd read. I praise the single mom's out there.

It's ok to be different

Jane Porter has done it again! With her latest publication, we meet another strong, independent female who isn't afraid to stand out, despite the pleading from her nine year old daughter. Wonderful novel that leaves you with a good feeling about life. Definetely worth a read

Awesome Book- Must Read!!!

Wow! What a great book by Jane Porter! She always creates such realistic characters I feel like I've known for years. This is a must read for all moms and women!

deep character study

In Seattle Marta Zinsser has always ignored convention and just fitting in. Instead Marta prefers not just thinking out of the box, but breaking the comfort confinement that the box provides to those who hide inside it. Her independence has led to her owning a somewhat successful advertising firm.----------------- However, single mother Marta has one gorilla problem that worries her. Her ten-year-old daughter, Eva, a product of a sperm bank withdrawal, wants to fit in with her peers at school, but her mom is the antithesis of the other parents. Whereas the other mothers dress in feminine garb, Marta wears combat boots. Feeling hemorrhoids and ulcers coming on if she has to join the stereotype motherhood society Marta still tries for compromise and even begins dating again. However, all this sidebar efforts of motherhood and dating in search of pleasing others tires Marta and suddenly impacts her business.-------------- Marta turns ODD MOM OUT into a deep character study that focuses on personal and professional relationships that require comprise to achieve consensus and that there is only 24 hours in a day with sleep as a detractor so juggling everything means dropping some things. Hopefully the person selectively chooses to dump minor items. Fully developed characters Marta and Eva share an interesting mother-daughter relationship as the older Zinsser prefers being different while the younger needs to belong (the antithesis of the chip off the old block). Readers will appreciate the Zinsser females in conflict seeking compromise as both learn you can¿t do everything to please others.---------------- Harriet Klausner

WOW. I loved it.

Truly one of the best books I've read in a while. Jane Porter did an amazing job of capturing the emotional dynamic between her main character, Marta, and Marta's daughter Eva. There are several amazingly absorbing sub-plots that kept me flying through the pages I couldn't put it down. I laughed, I cried, and I rooted for Marta all the way. A must-read!!!!!

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