Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

Short review: I have been wanting to read something by Michael Lewis so I picked this up when I saw it on the Kindle Unlimited list. I mostly enjoyed it. I think we need more men to talk about their experiences with the changing role of fathers. And we need honesty about how that works. At times I still felt Lewis used the idiot Dad voice. Some of that was probably real ignorance and attempts to be honest about that. But others times it felt like he was just falling into the stereotype that was easy to fall into. The last chapter especially, about getting a vasectomy was a clear, ‘Men are idiots' chapter. Yes some of that is funny, but still as a stay at home Dad, I am looking for more than Dads are idiots. I do not want to go back to ‘Father Knows Best' or Superdads. But there has to be some middle ground where men can be less than perfect and less than an idiot.

There was a lot good here as well. So I don't want to give the impression it is worthless.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/home-game/