Mark,

This link isn't working. I read a book called Daddy Needs a Drink over the holidays. He writes a column for the Santa Fe Reporter and has done some work on NPR.

I wouldn't call it a "literary" masterwork but it received good reviews from the authors of Running with Scissors and A Girl Named Zippy. It was a book with plenty of good insight on being a dad of young kids.
Most importantly, the book provides lots of good laughs.

I'll let you borrow it if interested.
Jim

I haven't read the Pollack book, but after reading this and a few other reviews, I'll say I'm not interested.

Though a young adult book, The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson, is a great, quick read. It's a novel about a teen father. Highly recommended.

http://anotherathomedad.blogspot.com/

After reading the reviews and some of the feedback from those reviews, I wanted to read it and decide for myself. The way I see it, it won't really be that different than reading some of the many, many blogs out there. Some are good, some not so good.

I'll post my opinion (review) here when I have finished. Jim, I'll pass it on to you if you are still interested. I would like to borrow Daddy Needs A Drink from you if that is still available. (or I can get it from Mark when he's done!)

Anybody else read or going to read this?

Bri

I tried the writing bit for a couple years to keep my brain from turning to mush. I was working on a thriller, but my parents and in-laws kept saying I should write a book about being a full-time dad because my emails to them about the kid's exploits were always a riot. I considered this, but had the suspicion that they thought most of it was funny because it was their grandkids I was writing about. Somehow, knowing the culprits in the story would make it funnier. Well, just yesterday I read a review of Pollack's book in The Week that said essentially the same thing. "Child-rearing stories are seldom as enthralling to other people as they are to the parents who tell them."

But I did read a book several years ago, just before embarking on this new career at home, called House Husband by Ad Hudler that was pretty funny. The title makes me squirm, and it certainly wasn't a true account of what it's like, but it was a good laugh. It's fiction, but loosely based on his own experiences. He clearly took every imaginable predicament a Dad might find himself in and made a tale about it. Hilarious tales in some cases. Everything from having the police chase him out of a neighborhood park to having a floozy mom down the street hitting on him.

(This is my first post here so sorry if this book's already been discussed.)

Wayne H
High Point, NC