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Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
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When a really smart person can also be funny? What a triumph that is for readers like me, with middling track records at both, what a triumph to imagine the very idea!
No wonder I loved this breezy memoir. While reading, I toggled between the notion of being part of an almost unimaginably huge family and the idea -- to me an almost supremely romantic ideal -- of being an efficiency expert in life.
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. was a true original, seems to me; likewise his sister Ernestine. And yet that family had so many true originals!
As one of two children, I can't exactly wrap my head around sharing to that degree, being just one of such a large herd of children. But while reading this book, I didn't try hard to imagine. I simply read chapter-after-chapter, which meant story-after-story, having a ball.
Throughout a most refreshing sense of possibility was dawning within me, with so much laughter and cleverness!
Even so, what was my long-term reaction to immersing myself in the Gilbreth family's adventures? Puts me in mind of a famous saying about my home town, New York City:
It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
No wonder I loved this breezy memoir. While reading, I toggled between the notion of being part of an almost unimaginably huge family and the idea -- to me an almost supremely romantic ideal -- of being an efficiency expert in life.
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. was a true original, seems to me; likewise his sister Ernestine. And yet that family had so many true originals!
As one of two children, I can't exactly wrap my head around sharing to that degree, being just one of such a large herd of children. But while reading this book, I didn't try hard to imagine. I simply read chapter-after-chapter, which meant story-after-story, having a ball.
Throughout a most refreshing sense of possibility was dawning within me, with so much laughter and cleverness!
Even so, what was my long-term reaction to immersing myself in the Gilbreth family's adventures? Puts me in mind of a famous saying about my home town, New York City:
It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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