Things I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays, edited by the creator...

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	Things I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays, edited by the creator ofwww.dooce.com Kensington, 2008 - 270 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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Totally enjoyable - great father's day gift

I love this book. This is a collection of 10+ short stories all around fathers or fatherhood, written by both men and women. Most have a humorous bend to them. I did not find it to be uneven at all. I laughed (and sometimes cried) and thoroughly enjoyed each story. I don't think you have to like blogs at all to enjoy this book, most of the writers have blogs I don't read (yet) but I still loved them. A great father's day gift idea, too! The one thing I did not like was the type setting -- there are grey shaded boxes interspersed with a sentence or phrase from the story highlighted. It looks to me like an obvious space filler. I think the book would have been better without it.

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Not uneven, but not uniform

I preordered this book the moment I heard about it. I have the privilege of knowing Defective Yeti in person, and read the other bloggers regularly enough to know that I would enjoy the book. And I did--as much as I enjoy checking their blogs each and every day. Just like the blogs, the book sometimes made me laugh, cry or occasionally shrug and turn to the next one.

Some of the authors submitted posts used on their blogs, spruced up for the print edition. That's great--I'm more than willing to finally pay for the entertainment I've been enjoying for free. Others shared entirely new information. Laid off Dad's essay had me reaching for the tissue and rushing to the computer to check if it was true. I hadn't read some of the authors before the book, and now I have new sites to check, new lives to peek into.

This is a great collection of personal stories written by brave, talented writers. I'm so excited for all of them that they were published, and I'm so grateful to them for sharing their stories. I will buy a print edition of anything most of them writes, as a show of support and because I think it's worth it.

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fun, could have been more

I did enjoy the variety of stories, and it kept me motivated to read the next short essay...but it could have gone deeper, and I would have enjoyed more from Heather and Jon. While this book is not going to bounce her into any kind of stardom, I believe her talent for entertainment is real. This idea just didn't work as well as it could have. However, for those Dooce fans, worth the read.

I wanted to love this book.

I'm a huge dooce fan and religiously read her blog, along with many of her contributors' blogs, every single day. So no one was more surprised than me that I have found the book to be so...blah.

I was touched by Doug French's column on divorce, especially since I am such a fan of his wife's blog.

And while I had high hopes for Greg Allen's piece, ultimately I was un-moved by his quest to create, among other things, a mini-Bugaboo stroller.

Heather's pieces did not disappoint and hopefully her next book will just be her writing.

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