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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
This was kinda meh... For as much as I have heard about Lewis, I wasn't that impressed. Plus, I didn't think he was a very sympathetic individual.
Michael Lewis wrote The Blind Side and Moneyball. I expected a lot more from him about this memoir of becoming a father. Ironically, I'm writing this review with a 4 week year old in my lap, and I thought that I would find some laughs or golden nuggets of wisdom from him. This is fool's gold.
Some parts were funny, but for the rest of it, Michael Lewis seems to think he deserves a medal for getting his child dressed in the morning. He performs the absolute basics of parenting and thinks that he is a good father.
I've liked other work by Michael Lewis. As a new Dad, I thought I'd like this, but didn't. I expected something thoughtful but instead found a lot of self-deprecation, humblebrags, and awkward pride in being an uninvolved father. The few attempts at being sentimental were overwhelmed by the quest to turn everything his kids and wife do into a joke. The highlight of reading this, for me, was discovering that Lewis's wife (Tabitha Soren) has become a wonderfully talented photographer since her days as an MTV journalist. Unfortunately, I had to find this out on my own, by Googling. Lewis wrote her as an ever-suffering mother and idiot's wife, and not much else.
Didn’t find this funny at all. Lewis just comes off as a huge jerk. Don’t think this aged well.
My husband said Michael Lewis revealed the fact that they all tried to hide: dads don't know what they're doing.
If you like Michael Lewis and have kids -- this book is for you.
A fun, short memoir of sorts from Michael Lewis, who wrote Moneyball. The book is comprised, it appears, of many stories he previously published at Slate, and it's mostly an interesting piece of fluff that I'm glad was a free read on my Kindle.
The book goes through all the little stories - his kid turning on him, the birth of his son, his vasectomy, etc. All of it told in Lewis's matter-of-fact way that is both engaging and sometimes frustrating. The book mostly benefits it in this case, however, as the humorous parts become even funnier in that tone.
It's hardly essential, and it was a good book to pick up and put down. Definitely worth a borrow from the lending library if you have Amazon Prime.
The book goes through all the little stories - his kid turning on him, the birth of his son, his vasectomy, etc. All of it told in Lewis's matter-of-fact way that is both engaging and sometimes frustrating. The book mostly benefits it in this case, however, as the humorous parts become even funnier in that tone.
It's hardly essential, and it was a good book to pick up and put down. Definitely worth a borrow from the lending library if you have Amazon Prime.
This was an impressively honest book about the first few months of each of the author's children's lives. He doesn't sugar coat, or say what he's expected to say. He has the same matter of fact, yet funny voice that he has in all of his books.
Over all, it's a fun, interesting, quick read.
Over all, it's a fun, interesting, quick read.