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Ladataan... Let's Scare Mom (2015)Tekijä: Rob Wood
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To many folks the phrase "growing up in the fifties" brings to mind the suburban lifestyles romanticized by Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best...my Technicolor recollections paint a much different picture.Admittedly, my mom had a few things in common with June Cleaver, but the words "father knows best" never occurred to me during that entire decade. Those households were built on the cornerstones of patience and understanding. Bullethead, my father, employed a more unconventional style of parenting.Let's Scare Mom looks back through my eyes at the 1950s and lays open some of my more memorable adventures growing up on a ranch with two brothers and my best friend, confidant, and canine companion...Snorkie. Laced throughout the chapters is an unmistakable message addressing family dynamics that will surely conjure up events of your own childhood.Some of these experiences were humorous hailstorms of spontaneous dysfunction, while others served as milestones and harbored pivotal life lessons. Each episode left its mark like a raw cleave in un-sculpted stone. Perhaps most importantly, they helped me to view life through the lens of levity and led to an important realization: happiness is not a randomly allocated state of mind...but more a personal decision. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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However, if you weren't all of those things, good luck to you. And the author/ narrator doesn't get that. For example, he brags that his father got the home estate because the bank manager had inside information that the seller needed to sell cheap and fast. I find that dishonorable. He also claims to believe, for just one example, that ADHD is a formal term... to describe behavior that in the 1950's [sic] was simply identified as 'ornery.'... In the 50's the solution was far simpler... corporal punishment." I consider the advancements of medicine that help people with ADHD to be a very good thing, and "lickins" to be a very bad thing.
I recommend that authors who want to sneak proselytizing into a book that is marketed as a charming memoir should solicit beta readers whose opinions on such matters differ from theirs. Wood did have beta readers - but I bet they were friends, and that this book 'preached to the choir.' *I* am not a member of that choir, nor am I charmed.
I would give it one star, but since I gave up so early, my personal honor system prohibits me from passing judgement in the form of a goodreads rating. And who knows, maybe you are a member of the choir of old Texans like Wood and would enjoy this book.
(Oh, forgot to add, I received a copy of the book free from the author.)"