How Tough Could It Be?: The Trials and Errors of a Sportswriter Turned Stay-At-Home Dad

by Austin Murphy

Book Overview

A father takes a break from every guy's dream gig-covering football (and the odd swimsuit shoot) for "Sports Illustrated"-to give it a go as Mr. Mom, in this hilarious and heartfelt book After... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805074805
• ISBN13: 9780805074802
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

This book improved my marriage!

I LOVED this book and have given it to many as a baby gift or just because gift. It really helped me see that I was over achieving in the household and my husband was underachieving. After we both read this book, we had a heart to heart that was much lighter and productive than the vent session I'd rehearsed for weeks prior. It really helped me lighten up and helped my husband see he needed to step up to the plate. Highly recommend.

laugh out loud funny

Beautifully written and laugh out loud funny at the same time. I'm going to get this book for friends and family. (No, I'm not being paid by the author, I'm not related to him, and, in fact, I don't know him at all - except from the book)

Laughed so hard I damn near cried

This is one of those books that you tell all your friends about. Two things stand out for me: the absolutely manic laughter it elicited and the benefit it gave me.Murphy's writing style perfectly juxtaposes bawdy humor with an obvious intelligence; and when in doubt, he goes for the laugh. I laughed so hard at this thing that a couple of times it gave me an asthma attack. I think it helps if you have kids, and you recognize how ugly parenting can get.But there is also a deeper benefit. Like the author, I finished the book with a better "vision," a clearer sense of just how hard, how maddening, and how unending the daily life of a woman is. I think I'm a better husband having read it.

much funnier than I expected

This sounded pretty predictable and I expected sitcom humor, maybe a few laughs but familiar ones. But Murphy (whose work you may know from SI) is much better than that. He's wry without being too sarcastic, and he's never mean-spirited. He's a likeable narrator and this is a surprisingly sharp and funny book. A great father's day gift.

Loved it.

This was very gratifying to read. I'm a SAHM with 3 young children who ran out and bought the book after reading the funny excerpt in People Magazine. So insightful and entertaining. I haven't laughed that hard in quite some time.