Kids These Days -- Take 2

Kids These Days did not end up being quite the beach read that I had hoped - mostly because it took me until about February to finish it.  It was, as K had indicated, light and fluffy.  It was also sort of a comedy of errors.

About the book: it tells the tale of a floundering, early-middle-aged man whose wife is pregnant with their first child.  He's in a panic - not sure he wants the baby, not sure what to do with a baby, not sure what to do with his brother-in-law, not sure what to do about getting back into the work force after being laid off.  The bit about it that frustrated me is that he is basically the same hapless character at the end of the book as he is at the beginning.

This is sort of the comedic version of (spoiler alert!) Gone Girl.  The lead is really the same despicable person all the way through.  If you're hoping for some kind of breakthrough or change or improvement, don't hold your breath, because you're not going to get it.

Having said that, this book is goofy and there were several times that I laughed out loud at the ridiculousness of it all.  So now that we're starting another summer, you might want to try it out as a beach read!