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Great book for expectant parents!, June 1, 1998
This review is from: Good Morning, Merry Sunshine (Paperback)
This book is terrific! My husband and I read it before we had our first child. Bob Greene got us super excited about the baby's birth! We tried to read it slowly, so we wouldn't finish much before we had out child. We give this book to all of our friends who are expecting a baby and they agree it's a must-read!
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Good Morning, Merry Sunshine, September 6, 2010
This review is from: Good Morning, Merry Sunshine (Paperback)
A great book for a father-to-be! My husband got so much out of it before our daughter was born twenty-eight years ago, so we ordered this book for our son-in-law when we found our this same daughter was going to give us our first grandchild!
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"She will never remember any of this, of course. And I will never forget" p. 48, September 4, 2010
This review is from: Good Morning, Merry Sunshine (Paperback)
My mother gave me her copy of Bob Greene's Good Morning, Merry Sunshine after the birth of my daughter. She said that I had to read it and that it would change the way that I look at my daughter and at fatherhood. She was right - this book is terrific.
In 1982 Greene and his wife Susan had their first child, daughter Amanda Sue. Greene vowed that he would keep a daily diary of Amanda Sue's first year and Good Morning resulted. Parents - especially fathers - will find a lot that they can relate to in this book: the joys, heartaches, and the changes in perspective are all here.
Greene focuses on his tender feelings for Amanda Sue and on the strains that her birth brought into his marriage. Given that Greene later had to resign from the Chicago Tribune after a tryst with an teen girl whom he met through the paper, it's hard not to read this book and think about what it says about his marriage. I give Greene credit for being frank about his problems, but I also noticed the many references that he made about young women.
Good Morning, Merry Sunshine is a poignant, entertaining book. All parents will find much that is familiar in Greene's experiences.
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