This book may not apply to many of my fellow Cannonballers’ lives, but if it does, wow. Run, do not walk, to Amazon and buy it. My fifteen month old daughter is not like a lot of other toddlers her age. I’ve always felt strongly about applying negative labels to her. The best way I can really describe her is that she’s a lot. She’s just…a lot. Not always in a bad way. But she’s a lot more sensitive, a lot more stubborn, a lot […]
This book brought to you by a bunch of flimsy plot devices.
A smart, motivated, well liked high school good girl (Amelia) jumps or is pushed from the roof of her private school. Her single mom (Kate), a high powered attorney who’s extremely insecure about being a single mom, starts nosing around Amelia’s life to try to understand what happened. She’s totally bewildered and never saw it coming at all, and some circumstances surrounding her death don’t make sense (mainly that she jumped/was pushed immediately after being accused of plagiarizing a paper, which such a smart motivated […]
Expect. Don’t Accept.
This is my book club read for the month. It was an inspiring, if not entirely engrossing read. The memoir covers Daugherty’s experiences as a father to Jillian, his second child, who has Down syndrome. The diagnosis is a surprise to Daugherty and his wife Kerry, but they become loving, attentive, and tireless advocates for their loving, attentive, and tireless daughter. Early on in the book, Daugherty reveals the mantras that he and his wife developed in the hospital that carry them through in their parenting […]
Wink wink nudge nudge, parenthood, amirite?
2.5 stars In the 2016 winner of the Most Thinly Veiled Memoir award, Greg Olear Josh Lansky spends a really long day parenting his two young kids, Roland and Maude. Yes, Maude. And Roland. There’s your first sign that this guy is going to be kind of insufferable. He lives in an extremely detailed city called New Paltz, a yuppie paradise so thoroughly described that there’s no way the author doesn’t live there. Check the dust jacket, yep. New Paltz, NY. Okay, well, that’s fine. […]