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Loading... The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me (2010)by Bruce Feiler
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) pancak | Mar 4, 2024 |  It should be noted that I have two young girls (5 & 3) so this book, from the beginning, had a high potential of hitting close to home. Throughout the book I was overcome with bouts of emotional highs and lows. It was hard to put down, yet hard to pick back up, as I knew that with every new chapter I faced a possible torrential outpouring of tears. This book was truly wonderful and I would highly recommend it to any father. To [a:Bruce Feiler|18012|Bruce Feiler|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224299865p2/18012.jpg]: I will take a walk for you. (  )1  damienfranco | Aug 22, 2013 | The messages and perspectives espoused by the men chosen for the council are varied and insightful. Frankly, the author comes off as a bit self-absorbed and whiny from my point of view. As he describes the ordeal of spending 4 or 5 days in a hospital for symptoms related to chemotherapy, I can't help but think of the millions of people who have similar or worse health problems and can't afford even basic care. But then it occurred to me that perhaps he wrote himself this way to provide a greater contrast with the men on his council. In any case, this is a book I will give to others and keep on a shelf to re-read (a rarity for me). ( )1 grandpahobo | Jul 31, 2013 |  This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Tricia608 | Jun 16, 2011 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) amysan | Mar 7, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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Author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea: he would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads." "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities," he wrote to these men. "They'll have loving families, but they may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?" This is the inspiring story of what happened next, the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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