What have you read about modern dadhood that has made you smile or stroke your chin? Add your entries here with brief reviews and links to online bookstores...
Permalink Reply by Andy on January 25, 2009 at 10:06pm
Funniest book about adapting to Dadhood - 'The Best A Man Can Get' by John O'Farrell - an hilarious account of an ad jingle composer who sets up a studio in a different part of town and starts living a double life.
Also liked 'Man and Boy' by Tony Parsons - witty and tender.
Worse book - 'The Contented Baby Book' by Gina 'Fascist' Ford - 'wake up johhny at 6.23, wipe arse at 6.24, quote Elizabethan poetry at 6.27, maths test at 6.45' - you get the picture. Some people awear by it. I swear at it.
What about 'Night Of The Living Dad - Confessions Of A Shabby Father' by Sam Delaney?
Alright, I wrote this so why should you believe a single word that I say about it? But I can at least PROMISE that this is an honest, authentic, sometimes funny and sometimes offensive account of my first year as a dad. Esteemed author Danny Wallace said: 'This book is all about the F words: Funny, frank, fearless and fatherhood. I loved it.'
Anyway, buy it and let me know what you think. It's on amazon, in all the book shops or you can buy it for slightly cheaper than elsewhere from my own website, www.samdelaney.tv
Cheers!