Manhood for Amateurs

 

Currently reading Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon. It's a collection of essays focusing, loosely, on the then-vs-now Chabon sees.

I don't know what I expected from this book, but I had hoped it was going to be less Old Man Yells at Cloud than it's turning out to be.

Not that I don't think he has a point, say, about the adultification of LEGOs, or the general absence of kids playing outdoors together these days. I myself have yelled at those particular clouds.

Yelling ought to engender solutions. I don't see any here.

A friend posted this on my Facebook thread wherein I raise the question:

There was only one response that seemed appropriate:

I have to confess that I've read more since my initial reaction, and this book is growing on me.