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I finished this yesterday. Well, it stopped. There was no real ending. I turned the page and it was over. I was confused.

This woman is a bystander to her entire life. She is beaten by her first husband and goes back, more than once. Even after being warned that he will kill her.

She leaves her dying her grandmother alone in her room, while staying to watch over her. Really?

She leaves all finances to her accountant husband, doesn’t notice they don’t pay taxes for 5 years, while continuing to spend money on craft beer and private schools. While living in a falling apart house they pour money into that they bought from friends. When the bank forecloses on the house, they move into a rickety shack in worse condition, and stall moving their belongings until they have to break back into their old house to reclaim what they left behind. The new house is falling apart and is infested with mice, wolf spiders, and snakes. Such a deal!

She runs away, finds a better life, and then goes back to the rickety shack, filled with spiders and snakes. Because her husband asked her to come back. And maybe all that craft beer.

They claim to have $4.57 in the bank, but sure drink a lot of craft beer and buy a lot of animals. They have little practical knowledge of the chickens and goats now in their care so they kill, or nearly kill, many of them. If you acknowledge you can’t measure accurately, why are you measuring out feed for your animals? This stupidity leads to one of the goats almost dying, with many expensive vet visits. She sits next to a pregnant goat for days, drinking craft beer, because she can’t add to know when the goat is due to birth. All on $4.57.

This is a testimony to why some people shouldn’t have animals. It feels like a blog that was stuffed into book format. She spends hours heating then cooling water, sitting by a goat, making soap. And we get to relive every moment with her.

Just buy a craft beer and do something more productive than reading this book.


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Flat Broke with Two Goats A Memoir Jennifer McGaha 0760789267192 Books Reviews

I really loved this book. I think part of the reason is that a lot of it parallels my own life. We haven’t lost our home to foreclosure, but there are other challenges in life, some we have brought on ourselves and some that have just happened to us in the course of living. So although there are differences in the details of my own failures and problems in many ways than the author’s, I can relate to her struggles and her regrets. I can also relate to the farm-life, and how coming to it a bit later in life (whether out of necessity or out of choice, or maybe a little bit of both) makes us reevaluate our lives before, the things that have changed and those that have stayed the same. I can relate to the chickens and my awe at watching them grow and hatch and thrive and sometimes die and the pain (yes, really!) over those losses, and the amazement of that first egg. We also have goats because I too always wanted them and they are amazing animals. We also have a pig that we inherited from my son and a previous relationship in which his GF just had to have those “pot-bellied” pigs and then the struggle as to what to do with a 300-pound animal that you cannot bring yourself to slaughter and the only people who will agree to take her have those plans for her, so you keep her and feed her and scratch her back. And four dogs who have their own sunroom in our home. And twenty cats, every stray in the neighborhood finding your home and you can’t bear to not feed them. I am also an adjunct instructor at the local college and I still have a full-time job, but the self-sufficiency of the farm life and working with your hands and making soap and caring for living creatures with a connection to oneself...it does somehow change you. I thought the book was humorous and sad, and beautifully written. Jennifer’s writing was raw and real, honest and direct. I could identify with her as a real human caught in a bad situation in which she took the “goat by the horns” and made the best of it and she grew wiser in the process.
Our book club read and discussed this book and most of us could relate to the upper middle class author's lack of financial knowledge about what their financial status really was! There are several hilarious chapters of snakes falling in their laps, goats escaping, huge spiders and more critters as must move to a 100 year old cabin in the mountains of North Carolina....after they lose their beautiful upper class home. They decide to own and breed goats for the milk and cheese and that makes for several more hilarious chapters of laugh out loud reading just picturing their pet goats, the smell, the attempts at breeding, etc. Jennifer includes family recipes at the end of every chapter made from all organic foods since they live off the grid and don't even have a hot water heater. The couple learns what is really important in life and family history and togetherness is the key! This paperback is a fun read!
I almost didn't read this book based a few reviews calling her whining, self-absorbed, spoiled. I'm so glad I went with my gut, that said read this. While never as far down financially, I often lived on the financial edge as I raised two children as a single mom. I know that trapped feeling, the urge to run away and start anew. I admire the way she eventually moved on with her life and accepted, loved her life, as it had become. Having very little family to trace, i was entranced by the generations of her family and how she turned to them for solace and introspection. I truly loved this book. I read it as a free book, but I will be buying it for myself and as gifts for friends. By the way, I once had a pet goat named Cinnamon.
I felt like the author was rather at cross purposes with this book. She wanted to share the adventure that brought her to the new life she and husband came to due to financial issues. She wanted to tie the experience to her ancestors. I wasn't comfortable with the attempts at relating the two.
While the descriptions are good,the book overall is bad. It reads like a bunch of blogs stitched together. And it does not make sense. Who gets so deeply in debt and then buys animals?! Animals are expensive! Why not work 2 or 3 jobs and buy cheap beer! Then she takes out a student loan??
I finished this yesterday. Well, it stopped. There was no real ending. I turned the page and it was over. I was confused.

This woman is a bystander to her entire life. She is beaten by her first husband and goes back, more than once. Even after being warned that he will kill her.

She leaves her dying her grandmother alone in her room, while staying to watch over her. Really?

She leaves all finances to her accountant husband, doesn’t notice they don’t pay taxes for 5 years, while continuing to spend money on craft beer and private schools. While living in a falling apart house they pour money into that they bought from friends. When the bank forecloses on the house, they move into a rickety shack in worse condition, and stall moving their belongings until they have to break back into their old house to reclaim what they left behind. The new house is falling apart and is infested with mice, wolf spiders, and snakes. Such a deal!

She runs away, finds a better life, and then goes back to the rickety shack, filled with spiders and snakes. Because her husband asked her to come back. And maybe all that craft beer.

They claim to have $4.57 in the bank, but sure drink a lot of craft beer and buy a lot of animals. They have little practical knowledge of the chickens and goats now in their care so they kill, or nearly kill, many of them. If you acknowledge you can’t measure accurately, why are you measuring out feed for your animals? This stupidity leads to one of the goats almost dying, with many expensive vet visits. She sits next to a pregnant goat for days, drinking craft beer, because she can’t add to know when the goat is due to birth. All on $4.57.

This is a testimony to why some people shouldn’t have animals. It feels like a blog that was stuffed into book format. She spends hours heating then cooling water, sitting by a goat, making soap. And we get to relive every moment with her.

Just buy a craft beer and do something more productive than reading this book.