Tag: Fatherhood
Walking with Jack
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/10/12/walking-with-jack/
Title: Walking With Jack Author: Don J. Snyder Publisher: Doubleday, 2013 Summary/Review: It will help you understand this tale if you are a golf nut, or at the very least, golf-term-savvy. This memoir about a father’s desire to help his son realize their shared...
Home Game
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/06/17/home-game/
Title: Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood Author: Michael Lewis Publisher: W.W. Norton, May 2009 Summary: When Michael Lewis had his first child, he knew exactly how he should feel. You know, in awe of the miracle of life and forever changed and...
Crazy for the Storm
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/04/27/crazy-for-the-storm/
Title: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival Author: Norman Ollestad Publisher: Ecco Press. May 2009 Summary: I did not expect to like this book as much as I did. Granted, I am an extreme adventure reader junkie, but I was not expecting to...
The Prince of Frogtown
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/06/26/the-prince-of-frogtown/
Title: The Prince of Frogtown Author: Rick Bragg Summary: This is the final volume in Rick Bragg’s Americana Saga: All Over But the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man. Bragg finishes his collection of family stories with a tale about fathers and sons inspired by his...