false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1247604906m/6356399.jpg 6356399 3 What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as -- simply because -- it goes on being written every day. As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as the father of four young Americans, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played -- on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key -- by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. 6543116 book 30 9 2009 Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son total:206|5:40|4:102|3:52|2:9|1:3| 206 785 827 74 4 10 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 05:05:22 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 06:44:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 10:06:24 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 05:58:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 16:33:18 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 16:01:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 13:59:31 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 14:02:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:24:34 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:24:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 18:58:02 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 19:07:01 -0700 2009 1
The Plot: Michael Chabon, aka author of my fave book of all time, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, takes a stab at nonfiction with this collection of short anecdote-type essays touching on many elements of being a man and the various ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Aug 20 07:46:01 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 07:55:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 true false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 16:29:04 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 16:04:19 -0800 2009
(I was right about this AC...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 03 18:01:43 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 19:35:52 -0800 2009 David Foster Wallace. This book is everything a DFW collection of essays isn't -- a lot of short (!), tautly written (!), quick (!) observations about fatherhood and growing up in A...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 12:27:22 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 06:30:26 -0700 2009 she loved her husband more than her children. Honestly, I didn't read this book as a response, but an author's intention does not mandate that the reader see things that way.

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I'm obviously not the target audience for this book, but I like his ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 22:36:52 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 23:57:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false true Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 05:48:55 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:58:49 -0700 2009 INDenverTimes.

At its best, Michael Chabon’s latest book, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, is never quite what it purports to be. With the exception of its most predictably didactic moments, it is neither a “shy manife...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 19:15:14 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 19:25:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:26:49 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 08:44:02 -0800 2009 The Astonishing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay since May; I even have had the beautiful paperback edition sitting by my computer for a couple months. [Chabon has, hands down, some of the BEST LOOKING book covers I've ev...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 07:20:26 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 06:09:30 -0800 2009
I learn great things from reading Chabon. Like what coproph...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 19 10:17:52 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 19:56:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 15:35:36 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 15:36:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:32:07 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:52:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 10:11:51 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 09:47:56 -0800 2009
I know this book is non-fiction and the other is fiction - but it's exceedingly hard to wrap my brain around the fact that Michael Chabon couldn't bring his incredible sto...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6356399