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It's the day before Father's Day and you still haven't picked out the right gift yet. I sympathize. My father is not so easy to shop for, even when I go the book route. Any book that would ever interest him he's already read and I've exhausted the hockey history section. My father-in-law is just not big on the gift thing at all. So I put out a call to people who know best - twitters and book bloggers of course. Here are their suggestions for that perfect book for dad.
From @CLBuchanan - The Winner by David Baldacci. Whimpulsive has this to say this about the book:
This thriller requires the reader to suspend a lot of plausibility, but all in all it’s a fun thrill ride that made for a great vacation read.
From @krismausser - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig. From Dog Ear Diary:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the kind of book that made my head hurt, and I had to put it aside after every chapter or so. Let it absorb. Try and understand it. As you might have noticed, I've read five other books simultaneously because I had to keep getting away from Zen. But it was intriguing enough that I kept going back until I actually finished it.
From @refashionista - The Tao of Willie by Willie Nelson and Turk Pipkin. Kellie Deann says it's the right book "you’re in the mood for a good laugh, some self-reflection, and a new perspective."
@Jennifereh recommends Nick Hornby's About a Boy because " it shows that fatherhood is more than biology." Jenny at Shelf Life says:
This has to be the most light-hearted book about severe bullying, dysfunctional relationships, and suicidal depression I’ve ever read. You have to hand it to Nick Hornby. About a Boy reads as if he went out into the street in London sometime during 1998 and took a snapshot of the emotional life he found there, and then came back inside and made himself a cup of coffee and wrote as faithful a description of it as he possibly could.
@Highhiddenplace says that she recommends graphic novels for the not so eager reader. No one was more surprised than Heather herself when her husband started reading her graphic novels.
I usually get home to the hubby watching a movie, a TV show, or playing a game. Lately, however, I have been coming home to him sitting on the porch, smoking a cigarette, and…reading. Yes, reading. My most non-readerly-husband has been tearing through all of my graphic novels. Well, almost all of them. I’m not sure, but I don’t think he’ll be reading Maus any time soon. Although, I may try to talk him into it.
Nothing fits? Try these:
White Readers Meet Black Authors Father's Day book suggestions.
Book Dads, a site dedicated to books with positive views of fathers and fatherhood .
Shelle at Layers of Thoughts has some Father's Day connections and recommendations.
Got a mystery fan for a dad? Mystery Readers Inc has Fathers Day mysteries.
And for the younger set, Children's Books about Dad at Chronicle of an infant bookworm.
Contributing Editor Sassymonkey also blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
