Not Now Honey, I'm Watching the Game : What to Do When Sports Come Between You and Your Mate [Paperback]

Kevin Quirk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 1997

In the first book to identify excessive sports watching as an addiction, a reformed sports junkie reveals how this obsession can compromise a relationship and shows couples how to break through their sports barrier to greater intimacy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (October 2, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684834472
• ISBN-13: 978-0684834474
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,494,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kevin Quirk is a Charlottesville, Virgina based author, ghostwriter, personal historian, editor, and nonfiction book coach. His specialties include memoirs and autobiographies, religion and spirituality, self-help, health, business, politics, and cultural affairs. A former journalist with the Charlotte Observer, he is the author of the new book "Your Life Is a Book - And it's Time to Write It! An A-to-Z Guide to Help Anyone Write Their Life Story." He is also co-author of the inspirational book "Brace for Impact: Miracle on the Hudson Survivors Share Their Stories of Near Death and Hope for New Life" and the author of "Not Now, Honey, I'm Watching the Game," as well as "Your Sacred Adoption: A Guided Journal of Life, Love and Memories." Kevin teaches Writing Your Life Story classes through OLLI at UVA and Autobiographical Writing at the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies. As a member of the Association of Personal Historians, he interviews men and women of all ages and writes their life stories through his service, Life Is a Book. His website (www.lifeisabook.com) features his blog "Life Is a Book - Is It Time to Write Yours?"

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5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF MY FAVORITES, January 17, 2004

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This review is from: Not Now Honey, I'm Watching the Game : What to Do When Sports Come Between You and Your Mate (Paperback)

Very few books have made an impact on me as much as this obscure but genuine gem. I've owned it for years and still check it out often. As a lifelong sports maven- and as a person with a lifelong neurological condition- I have to limit my exposure to sports on TV or live. That ended my lifelong dream of being a sports columnist. Thank God for Kevin Quirk, who was the first guy- and, to this day, the only guy- to identify this condition.
With humor and warmth, Kevin not only tells you how he quit the business cold turkey but how he talked to sports junkies all over the country for their stories. I live in Boston, arguably the most intense sports city of all, and I feel that this book was written for me. Like Kevin, I have dealt with sports junkiedom all my life, not always successfully. He's still there to help.
If you, too, have a sporting obsession and want to put it in the proper perspective, go dig this book up right now. You, too, can deal with it. Again- thank God for Kevin Quirk!