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Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Gay takes a humorous and insightful look at life in the face of a seemingly overwhelming series of ongoing societal changes and phenomena that we never anticipated, exploring the effects on parenthood, marriage, friendship, work, play, and all aspects of the strange lives we find ourselves living.Like many of us, Jason Gay didn't see this coming: a reshaped world, on edge, often stuck at home, questioning everything, trying to navigate a digital landscape that changes how we think, parent, coach, and live. With a series of topical and interconnected personal pieces, Gay comically takes on this new state of being, looking for the optimism and joy in the face of discouragement. He embarks on a rowdy ride with his son to the Daytona 500, weeks before lockdown. He confides his hilariously banal texts with his wife. He allows his mom to kidnap the family cat. From the modest thrills of Little League parenting to reckoning with the impending death of a close friend, Gay's essays run the gamut of modern life and he approaches it all with humility, grace, and more than a few laughs.
Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jason GayEAN: 9780306828560COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: WEIGHT: 300 gHEIGHT: 212 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Hachette BooksDATE PUBLISHED: 2022-12-08CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, HUMOR / Form / EssaysWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Memoirs, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Parenting: advice and issues, Humour collections and anthologies
"Really funny."--"Midday" with Tom Hall (WYPR), "An insightful look at life in the face of huge societal change... discusses a range of topics from parenthood, to marriage, to friendship all with humility, grace, and a good laugh."--The Denizen, "This is a likable writer who's very good at wry commentary on modern life.... The joy of a collection like this has... everything to do with its narrative energy--which Mr. Gay provides by the truckload. He dives right into telling funny stories about everything from taxes to golf to fishing.... He writes with the kind of lovable self-deprecation he uses throughout the book.... Bright, thoroughly readable."--Vineyard Gazette, "Gay is the Seinfeld of parenthood."--Zibby Owens, "Required reading....Gay ponders life with humor and grace."--The New York Post
Jason Gay is a humor and sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where his work has been honored by organizations including the Deadline Club, the New York Press Club, and the Society of Professional Journalists, the latter of which named him Sports Columnist of the Year in 2016 and 2020. He is the author of the 2015 New York Times bestseller Little Victories and a finalist for the 2015 Thurber Prize in American humor. Gay’s work has appeared in such magazines as Vogue, Rolling Stone, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, and Outside. He served as Regis Philbin’s co-host on the Fox Sports Channel’s sports show The Crowd Goes Wild, and he is a regular guest on TheBill Simmons Podcast. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family.
Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Gay takes a humorous and insightful look at life in the face of a seemingly overwhelming series of ongoing societal changes and phenomena that we never anticipated, exploring the effects on parenthood, marriage, friendship, work, play, and all aspects of the strange lives we find ourselves living.Like many of us, Jason Gay didn't see this coming: a reshaped world, on edge, often stuck at home, questioning everything, trying to navigate a digital landscape that changes how we think, parent, coach, and live. With a series of topical and interconnected personal pieces, Gay comically takes on this new state of being, looking for the optimism and joy in the face of discouragement. He embarks on a rowdy ride with his son to the Daytona 500, weeks before lockdown. He confides his hilariously banal texts with his wife. He allows his mom to kidnap the family cat. From the modest thrills of Little League parenting to reckoning with the impending death of a close friend, Gay's essays run the gamut of modern life and he approaches it all with humility, grace, and more than a few laughs.
Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jason GayEAN: 9780306828560COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: WEIGHT: 300 gHEIGHT: 212 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Hachette BooksDATE PUBLISHED: 2022-12-08CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, HUMOR / Form / EssaysWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Memoirs, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Parenting: advice and issues, Humour collections and anthologies
Jason Gay is a humor and sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where his work has been honored by organizations including the Deadline Club, the New York Press Club, and the Society of Professional Journalists, the latter of which named him Sports Columnist of the Year in 2016 and 2020. He is the author of the 2015 New York Times bestseller Little Victories and a finalist for the 2015 Thurber Prize in American humor. Gay’s work has appeared in such magazines as Vogue, Rolling Stone, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, and Outside. He served as Regis Philbin’s co-host on the Fox Sports Channel’s sports show The Crowd Goes Wild, and he is a regular guest on TheBill Simmons Podcast. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family.
Die verhaal van die kasarm en die Calitze kom tot 'n mooi einde
Ek kan nie ’n boek summier toemaak nadat die slotsin geskryf is nie. Ek lees álles, tot by die outeursnotas en die bronnelys (gewoonlik gooi ek darem net vlugtig ’n oog oor die bonne!). Chanette Paul maak in die nota oor Maanschijnbaai 2, die verdere verhaal van Nan en Jeannie, die stelling: “Lesers moet my asseblief vergewe dat my verbeelding altyd die oorhand oor die werklikheid kry en verdigsel voorkeur bo feite.” (p.635) Ek wil daarby aanhaak en bieg dat ’n uitstekende verhoudingsroman soos hierdie tydelik die oorhand gekry het oor my traagheid om te lees oor reïnkarnasie en die esoteriese. Die klomp Calitzse het my tyd en aandag totaal gekaap.
Die skrywer wy die laaste bladsye aan ’n verduideliking oor hoe die Maanschijnbaai-tweeluik ontstaan het. Sy beweer dat die Calitze haar “onkant” betrap het. Sy wou ’n romanse skryf maar uiteindelik was die karakters so kompleks dat dit op twee dik boeke en ’n intense familiedrama uitgeloop het.
Van die onderskeie karakters raak diep waarhede kwyt wat die moeite werd is om te onderstreep en te onthou, soos Zach wat dit gehad het oor die risiko om iemand op ’n pedestal te plaas omdat jy daardeur die persoon ’n onreg aandoen. (p.539) En Nan, wat die hele klomp Calitze moes grootkry, se wyse raad: “Met eerlikheid, Jeannie, kom ’n mens baie verder as met opoffering. Met eerlikheid gee jy almal ’n regverdige kans. Opoffering beteken bloot jy doen iets teen jou sin omdat jy glo dit sal ander baat.” (p.613)
Maak seker dat jy genoeg tyd op hande het, dan lees jy hierdie tweeluik in volgorde, Jo & Sue, gevolg deur Nan & Jeannie. Dit is hersien en met splinternuwe, pragtige baadjies uitgegee deur Lapa Uitgewers.
A very practical approach and the tools to go along with it
Very useful. The book provides a structure and an approach that I would have been useful earlier in my investing. I like the five gates and in particular the attention to quality and management's capital allocation decisions. I will also apply the idea of the stewardship log to get more explicit on my investment theses. This is kind of the practical aspect of what I learned from the Psychology of Money.
the title ties in really nicley the more towards the end but the title for the book suits it real...
the book is very slow burn and takes a while for like captivating parts of the book .but the middle to the end the pace of the book is really nice the beginning is just repetitive and and trust the processes
Skuld en vergifnis word nie versuiker in hierdie jeugverhaal nie
Twee halwes maak ’n hele is die wenner van ’n jeugboekprys. Ek moes myself gedurig herinner wat die teikenmark nou eintlik is, want die sake wat aangeraak word, is geensins beperk tot jeugdige lesers nie. Die sterk newe-karakters dra daartoe by die selfs baie ouer lesers goed aanklank kan vind by die storielyn wat ontvou.
“Hulle sê as jy iemand vergewe, lig jy ’n vrag van daardie persoon se skouers af. Maar miskien is sommige dinge net te swaar om van iemand anders se skouers te lig?” (p.178) Baie aandag word gegee aan skuld en vergifnis, maar geen suikeromhulde kitsoplossings word aangebied nie. Dit sou die storie beslis vervlak het.
Na die aardskuddende ontdekking wat Lira gemaak het, gaan sy vir drie maande na ’n Griekse eiland en maak sy kennis met haar ander helfte, ’n halfsuster wat presies die teenoorgestelde is van haar eie ingetoë, overthinking self. Ek het daarvan gehou dat hulle, die verskille ten spyt, nie in heftige konflik was nie. Eerder besig om algaande te ontdek dat hulle by mekaar kan aanpas en albei sterker daardeur kan kom.
Marita van der Vyver is ’n waardige wenner van die Tafelberg Jeugboekprys en hierdie boek hoort beslis in van der Vyver versamelings. Dit is uitgegee deur Tafelberg, ’n druknaam van Jonathan Ball Uitgewers.
