Dad's Tweed Coat: Small Wisdoms, Hidden Comforts, Unexpected Joys

By Jim Reed

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887654305
• ISBN13: 9781887654302
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Premium Pr Amer
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Unexpected Joy

Jim's gentle, but funny, personality shines through every page. Best of all, Jim has a fresh and unusual way of perceiving the world. He can find comfort, joy, and meaning in the smallest aspects of everyday life. When I finished reading, I felt uplifted, comforted, and enriched by a new sense of how to see the meaning of life!

DAD?S TWEED COAT is a delight!

A southern journey through the eyes of a gentle, wise man. It was a fun and thought-provoking trip.

A joyful honoring of family-of parenting and being parented.

Jim Reed has given us 48 essays on his life in AL with emphasis on his father but equally as important are his insights into his own fathering. This is a treasure. I recommend it to all readers who want to have fun while ending up feeling good about themselves and each other. Jim connects us.

"A small joyful compact book packed full of fun..."

Robbie Willmarth, Chicago radio commentator, says, "I couldn't put it down...a small joyful compact book packed full of fun, witticisms, homages...wonderful insight into human nature. I believe you'll feel a little bit better about yourself and your world after reading 'Dad's Tweed Coat'."

The book is loving embrace from someone elses memories.

It's a small book, 5 1/2" by 7 1/4". It's a thin book 3/4's of an inch. This means it's portable and easy on your pockets if you choose to carry it with you. If you do choose to stretch your coat pocket, place it near your heart, it will warm and calm you. Reed's book of fond memories, brings you to a nicer and calmer time when people had the time and inclination to say " how do" and mean it. We are all eventually memories and Jim is a very rich man if wealth is determined by the richness that such an outlook on life can bring one. I am very jealous of his childhood and his father's tweed coat. The narrative is cream rich in voice. When traveling in Reed's time machine a Southern story teller's words have the texture of evapoated milk poured through an old brassiere. Go to a quiet place, a secret place and enjoy a time that has come and gone but one that you can always visit when you wrap yourself in Jim Reed's father's tweed coat,