Friday, January 28, 2022

Book Review - Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living

Paddle Your Own Canoe - By: Nick Offerman
Title - Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living
Author: Nick Offerman
Date Read: January 2022
Rating: πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Review: Great book by one of my favorite authors. Nick Offerman has had quite the life and thankfully has the writing chops to pass on his knowledge of what is necessary to live a meaningful life.

Description (Audible): Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking - he runs his own woodshop - Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois - "I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield" - to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even handcraft (and paddle) their own canoes.

Description (ChatGPT): Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman is a hilarious, no-nonsense guide to life from the man who taught us all how to be a manly, mustachioed, woodworking enthusiast. Part memoir, part manifesto, Offerman serves up wisdom on everything from love and work to bacon and woodworking—delivered with a side of irreverence and a generous splash of whiskey. It’s like having a conversation with your funniest, most down-to-earth uncle, but with more jokes about axes and less talk about feelings. A must-read for anyone who enjoys humor, wood, and the occasional philosophical musing on the meaning of life.

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