Sometimes I Wake Up Grumpy is Karen Scalf Linamen’s latest, lighthearted attempt to speak practical wisdom to women who feel trapped in a rut. It is written as a sequel to her best seller, Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt. Speaking openly and honestly about her own struggles against obesity, depression and marriage difficulties Linamen has much advice to offer women who are willing to help themselves out of their various predicaments. But the solutions she offers are reliant on a woman’s own strength. She fails to point us to the hope we have in Christ and how God’s love for us should shape the way we see ourselves. However it may be successful in what it sets out to do, and that is to speak to women who are hurting, from a ‘been there done that’ perspective with a little humor along the way.