Don't make me stop this car! Book

Don't make me read this personal stuff

What can I say being the first reviewer of this title on Amazon? Apparently, this must not have been a bestseller. I have cataloged the book in humor, but it is really more biographical. Cataloging In Publication is 306.8… whatever that is supposed to mean other than it is wrong. Subject headings are supposed to direct the reading to particular subjects anyhow. I have noticed that CIP people do not know a great deal about cataloging is what I am saying.

Roker is not a James Thurber, but at least he is not a Dave Barry.

So, here I am reading this title, I purchased fifteen years ago, in my old age. I looked Roker up and learned he is still married to Deborah, at least on the date of my web search, and that he was raised Catholic, which explains, to me at least, several of his references to God's will. For example: The miscarriage was God's will and the healthy growth of the implanted zygote was God's will. They were blessed by God to have the finances to proceed with an expensive procedure I would rather not read about… and a country house. How were they going to explain to the baby the two siblings that did not make it… and the one that was apparently dispensed with? Whatever…

The expenditures were annoying and must have been astronomical, at least for my budget. My own daughter, who works for a living, could not afford a modicum, even with her crappy insurance, of such expenditures. So, this stuff is not in God's will for working folks… The religious aspect reads like a Max Lucado picture book.

He did make a big mistake letting Courtney watch MTV, and I presume, all that other junk. But, she apparently made it through okay.

Food was apparently a big part of Roker's life, but he has lost substantial weight, at least temporarily, with a gastric bypass.

The chapter, however, on prejudice of racial and other characteristics, although not original, was insightful. Can't we all just get along? Apparently not.

This is followed by parenting anecdotes at differing levels of humor.

Gotta go.