9 of 10: Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men is, undoubtedly, a change from my regular fare, but I enjoyed every minute of it. boys adrift by leonard sax Boys Adrift is about the changes in society that have made it increasingly common for men in their late twenties and…
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Even Less Interesting Than My Groceries
Many thanks to you lovely people who added your email addresses to your profile yesterday. You are all winners! However, I suspect there might have been a few of you that read that post and thought, “That’s all well and good, Janssen, except that my email address is ‘FirstNameLastNameSocialSecurity#@gmail.com’ and I don’t actually want to broadcast that to the whole…
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Let Me Help You Help Me
Sometimes people need a little public service announcement, I think. Jenna wrote a passionate post (read it and you’ll see that the word “passionate” is actually a pretty mild term for the post) about the word verification/anti-spam thing that pops up on many blogs when you comment. You know, that thing that makes you type in “sid09df” before your comment…
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Prison Stripes
At TLA, I met one of the marketing directors for Penguin Books and she asked if I would like to be added to their mailing list for advance copies of books. Needless to say, I said yes. However, now, after having received a few books from them in the last two months, I’m not only thrilled, but deeply impressed. Whoever…
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Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
10 out of 10: Cheaper by the Dozen is one of my all-time favorite books, one I’ve read over and over again. It makes me laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. It has zero resemblance to the (very lame) Steve Martin movie. Growing up, my mom read to us nearly every night before we went to bed. My…
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