A unique memoir written by Weintraub throughout her pregnancy. She writes it in a week-by-week format which is fun and easy to follow. Her struggles during her pregnancy are very real and make it even more relatable.

I would love the opportunity to read fiction written by Weintraub. She seems to be a very intelligent writer.

(I received this audiobook ALC via NetGalley in return for an honest review. Thank you.)

This, has a fantastic opening line. One of the best I’ve read in a limoir and a really long time. Funny engaging and all-around enjoyable as always thank you to NetGalley for sending me this review copy for Free all opinions are my own

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* lmfao this book is hilarious, loved reading it, will recommend for sure!

Lots of feels in this emotional rollercoaster of a book.

I was lucky to be given the audiobook from the publisher and @NetGalley for an honest review.

It captured my attention for the most part but I have to be frank, the narrator wasn't the best. In fact, she made this possible 4 star story fall flat.

Still, i persevered.

I appreciated the insight into the life of a woman on bedrest. Having never experienced it myself, I hope I gained some empathy for those who are forced into bed for months to save the life of their child. It was a good memoir overall. Though the audio version was not read by the author, the reader did a fantastic job of conveying the emotions of a hormonal, pregnant woman experiencing the ops and downs of gestation.

The first thing to say on this is that I didn't love the narrator, who isn't the author, so if you fancy giving it a read perhaps don't go for the audiobook version.

This was a really open and honest description of the impact of having your mobility impacted for such a long period of time on your own mental health and your relationships with those around you. Moving every day is such a habit with me now, I can't imagine not being able to do that for a week, never mind 5 months.

This is described as a laugh out loud book whilst there are some comical moments, I wouldn't necessarily agree with this description.

This was a good story! I really liked the audio version and thought it was well done. The characters were good and I liked how they went through the true ups and downs of starting something new like having a baby!

I wasn't aware that this book is largely about the bed rest experiences of the author when she was faced with a high risk pregnancy. While it is fairly well-written and the beginning was interesting, it just did not hold my interest. I'm just not the intended audience I guess.

The narrator's voice was quite pleasant and she had lots of expression in the dialogues but I would have preferred a livelier narration overall.

Overall, just not the book for me.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to listen to this book in return for an honest review.

Synopsis

Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life, hopping from one job and one relationship to the next. When her father suddenly dies, she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds of the country, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who knows a lot about produce, tractors, and how to take a person down in one jiu-jitsu move. Within months of saying "I do", she's pregnant, life is on track, and then wham! Her doctor slaps a high-risk label on her uterus and sends her to bed for five months.

As her husband's bucolic (and possibly haunted) farmhouse begins to collapse and her marriage starts to do the same, Weintraub finally confronts her grief for her father while fighting for the survival of her unborn baby. In her precarious situation, will she stay or will she once again run away from it all?

Knocked Down is an emotionally charged, laugh-out-loud roller-coaster ride of survival and growth. It is a story about marriage, motherhood, and the risks we take.

As a mother of 3, with a range of different types of pregnancies and births. I wholly related to Aileen Weintraub’s fantastic memoir. It genuinely is laugh out loud funny, yet it’s emotional, I cried in parts, I had little flashbacks, to my own pregnancy’s. I laughed at the coincidences in the absolute hatred I felt for the doctors in charge, the nicknames they were given. Having said that you don’t need to be a mother to relate I don’t think. You just need to have lived, loved and have a crazy normal family. It was absolutely fantastic. Beautifully written. Beautifully narrated. Perfect! #Jorecommends

To be honest, I requested this book in part because it was one of the few audiobooks available on Netgalley, but also because the cover is so eye popping! I love the pink. The title is also very apt. I interpret it to be a play on words. Instead of being "knocked up", the author is "knocked down" by her "incompetent uterus", which forces her to endure months and months of bedrest.

Having just given birth to my first baby 6 months ago, this book really resonated with me. Pregnancy is not easy, even when it is normal. I cannot imagine being stuck laying down for months on end! I really liked the author's candor and humor throughout the memoir. If I had been in her position: everything seeming to fail around her, from her body, to her house, to her new marriage, I am not sure that I could have taken it with such a good nature, nor would I have been able to see the humor in it all.

I also liked that the book was not only about her pregnancy, but it also dived into the author's past and took an honest look at the relationship with her parents and religion, and the conflicts inherent in both. I feel like this really rounded out the book and gave the reader more insight into the author as a person, not just a pregnant person.

The only con for me was the audiobook narration. It was so monotone, which did not suit the story. I was also not impressed with the accent that the narrator used when speaking the dialogue for Weintraub's mother and father: she went for the stereotypical "Jewish" accent, which was a tad offensive.

Therefore, I would definitely recommend this book, but only in a written format.

The author came across as so unlikeable and standoffish right from the start that it made the rest of the book difficult to read, let alone to enjoy n

At some point, I'm going to learn to read the whole description of books before deciding I want to read it... or I won't. I do come across some enjoyable reads I likely wouldn't have picked up otherwise. LOL I am not a woman who is obsessed with children or pregnancy, nor do I usually enjoy hearing a lot about either. I don't hate kids; I just don't particularly like most of them all that much. So, a book about one woman's difficult pregnancy? Not the obvious choice. But you know what? I enjoyed this!

After growing up in NYC, Weintraub finds herself recently married, living in an old farmhouse and enduring a complicated pregnancy and marital discord. There were moments I literally laughed out loud, beginning with a story about a funeral, of all things. The story is heavy on pregnancy details so if that really turns you off, this might not be the best fit, but as I said, that's usually a subject I avoid and I really enjoyed this. This author is a great storyteller.

Thanks to Tantor Audio and NetGalley for the ALC in exchange for my honest review.