snowbenton 's review for:

Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman

3.0

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Offerman has the perfect deadpan voice to narrate his dryly funny memoir-slash-advice-manual. He talks about his childhood, his predilection for building things with his hands, his ongoing romance with his wife, his college years, and all the normal things a memoir contains. He shakes up this formula by adding in copious amounts of advice, most of it along the lines of Go outside, make something with your hands, stop whining, appreciate your life. His stories were hard for me to relate to and I found the transitions between story and advice to be a bit forced. Overall it was entertaining but I don't think I'd read anything else by him.