finished 02.11.09

This is a book of essays about fathers compiled and edited by Heather Armstrong (Dooce). Some stories are about being a father, some are about the writers’ fathers. All of the authors are bloggers and some people have had issue with this. That many of these stories were already mostly written on the web somewhere. I didn’t have an issue and I enjoyed the book. I read Dooce daily, but none of the other writer’s sites, so most of this was new to me. Even the essay by Jon, Heather’s husband, was new to me. Or maybe I just have a bias because I’ve met Heather when we sat on a panel together at BlogHer 2006. I also saw her speak on a few panels at SXSW last year – Content Boundaries, a 12-Step Program & Online Adulation. Or it could be that my dad’s 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’ve been thinking about him a lot in planning his party. Some of the stories are funny, some insightful, some sentimental, some all three. In any case, I think if you are a father or you have a father (or father figure) you will probably enjoy this book.