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June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 One Man Book Club

Why I want my sons to read books about girls

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 One Man Book Club

#Dune: So, you’ve never read it either?

June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 One Man Book Club

#Kindle #Oasis–what’s that? Here’s a deep-dive. Like really deep…

June 5, 2019 One Man Book Club

#Swordheart: My, what a big sword you have…

June 5, 2019 One Man Book Club

It’s over. #NeilGaiman wins. Full Transcript: Reading and Obligation

June 4, 2019 One Man Book Club

#ClocktaurWar: Is wit and sarcasm your secret sauce?

May 29, 2019 One Man Book Club

#Dragonrider: Dragons are the bacon of books

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Dan Grover is the book-loving dad of six reluctant readers and the founder of One Man Book Club, a place for fellow parents and other content-conscious readers to find books they (and their kids!) will love.

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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. By: #JudyBlume My Rating: Five out of Five Stars I'm a dad. I want my sons to read books about girls. When I was eleven, I read "Are you there God? It's me Margaret". I remember the cover. I remember my favorite quote: We must--we must--we must increase our bust! And I remember very strong feelings of empathy towards girls. Crushing on a boy. (Girls do that too?) Wishing her body would grow (Girls think that?) Hiding in the closet to practicing with the belt that would hold her pad in place (Wait...what?!) BTW, today's edition has been updated--no belts! Margaret taught me about girls...what they worry about, what they go through, what they think. For 150 pages, I stepped out of my 11-year-old boy shoes and put on some 11-year-old girl shoes. Margaret taught me empathy Margaret gave me perspective Margaret empowered me to understand Margaret helped me see girls as people, not as objects Margaret showed me boys and girls have common concerns Honestly, Margaret changed my life. Bless you Judy Blume. Today, as a reading advocate, I am often asked for book recommendations by gender...a list of boy books or a list of girl books. I totally get it. But I won't do it. I had to hide when I read about Margaret. I loved The Hardy Boys and wanted to read Nancy Drew, but never did because I was too embarrassed. Parents want their kids to read, but boys don't want to read books that are "for girls" and girls don't want to read books that are "for boys." Well, that's dumb. When we assign genders to books, we are deny our children the opportunity to learn empathy. Shannon Hale, author of The Princess Academy and The Books of Bayern, talks about this much better than I do over here: https://t.co/ee2JmWhgcC Cont'd in the comments #onemanbookclub #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #dadswhoread #booknerd #bookreview
#Dune By: #FrankHerbert My Rating: Three out of Five Stars You know how there are some books you hate to admit you've never read? That's me and Dune. Except now I've read it. So take that, irrational, self-imposed guilt and embarrassment! Dune, published in 1965, winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and victim of an unfortunate movie from 1984, inspired much of what we love today about science fiction in books and movies. BTW, if you ever want to see the great Patrick Stewart literally yelling "Pew! Pew!" while shooting people with laser guns, watch the 1984 Dune movie. If you don't want to see that, don't watch the movie. It's an abomination. Sorry, but it's true: Luke Skywalker wasn't the first moisture farmer. Kevin Bacon wasn't the first person to get eaten by giant sand worms. James T. Kirk wasn't the first outside the good old Milky Way. Harry Potter wasn't the first chosen one. If you're like me and have never read Dune (or started but couldn't get through the tedious first 200 pages) and need to pretend you know what you're talking about with your Dune-obsessed nerd friends, here's a primer. Dune is set 10,000 years in the future. Noble houses rule, and answer to a ruthless galactic emperor. Duke Leto, the good guy, head of House Atreides, is forced by the emperor to move his household from their beautiful home planet to the desert planet Arrakis, a.k.a., Dune, where water is so scarce that people living there wear suits that capture body moisture and recycle it for drinking (Ew). The bad guy is Baron Vladimir, Head of House Harkonnen. He's so enormously fat he can't move under his own power.  He wears anti-gravity clothes that let him float around instead of walk around. Baron Vladimir and House Harkonnen were the previous rulers of Dune. Cont'd in the comments! #onemanbookclub #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #dadswhoread #booknerd #bookreview
Catch-22: a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions. #readerproblems
🙋🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ I thought I was the only one! Did you know the "t" in Voldemort is silent?
Hey Book Club! I had created a GIF of me turning my Kindle Oasis on and off the other day and shared it across my platforms.  I didn't expect so many questions about it! Since there is apparently an interest, I got to work early this morning and made video to show you how my Kindle Oasis works. Head over to www.OneManBookClub.com to watch! Enjoy!
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