Thursday, August 11, 2011

Familyhood

Author: Paul Reiser
Stars: 3
Review by: Bookworm237
Destination: CA


The third book in Paul Reiser's "--hood" collection. Not as funny or entertaining as his first two books, but still a decent read. Like the first two, you can hear his voice on every page, and there were a few spots that made me chuckle, but compared to his first two, it just didn't match up. Again, he uses his own life experiences, but this time I found this to be more of a confessional of how much he loves his kids and how he loves being a parent, more than the true adventures of "familyhood". With the first two he takes you on the really funny ride of being in a couple and the new adventures of being a parent. And you can tell that while he is happy in both of those stages, he also lovingly pokes fun at himself and sort of asks, why do we do this to ourselves? But, in this book I found it more to be a, 'my life is so wonderful, everyone should have kids, my kids are so fantastic, brag book'. And while there were parts that made me chuckle, it just wasn't the same feeling. He went from, why do we do this to ourselves? in his first 2 books, to almost preaching why shouldn't we do this to ourselves? Every parent thinks their child(ren) are great (as they should), but to put a whole book out there to talk about it is kind of annoying. I was looking for the same kind of funny book about the adventures and trials and tribulations of raising a family, and all that it means to be in "familyhood", not so much how rosy and wonderful it feels to be a parent and how fantastic his 2 individual children are. It wasn't a horrible book by any means, and still a quick read, but it just wasn't as funny as his first 2, and I was expecting different from him. It left me wanting a little more from him.

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