Buy These Books!

I must tell you, my readers, about two books you must absolutely rush out and buy now. Drop what you are doing. Go to your neighborhood bookstore, or visit the online book ordering website of your choice, and get these books.

Why am I so enthusiastic about these two books (which, incidentally, I have yet to read)? Well, it's because I am friends with the authors.

The first is called "Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield." This started as a show during which people go up on stage and read particularly embarrassing passages from their actual high school journals. This sounds like a spectacular idea (as I have gone back and reread some of my own angst-ridden journal entries from age 16 and they make me cringe). Anyways, they've collected some of the more humiliating journal entries into a book, and some of them come from my college roommate and good friend Kevin Wofsy.

The second book, for all you Francophones out there, is entitled "Carnet de Grossesse d'un Apprenti Papa", which I will loosely translate as "Handbook of Pregnancy for the First-Time Father". The author is Illich L'Henoret, who happens to be the husband of the head of my French lab, Sophie Saunier, at which I worked last year at Hopital Necker. Not surprisingly, both Sophie and her daughter (who was born just before I arrived in Paris) are two of the main characters, and I can't wait to practice my French by reading it.

What are you waiting for? Go, now, to the bookstore with thee!