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Title: It Takes a Worried Man

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Brendan Halpin

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and profound, It Takes a Worried Man is the true story of a young husband and father whose life is changed forever by his wifes breast cancer diagnosis. Following Brendan Halpins cranky, irreverent, and lustful thoughts through the diagnosis and treatment of his wife, Kirsten, It Takes a Worried Man is an unflinching and raw look at how cancer transforms a family. Its also the funniest book about cancer youll ever read.

Members Reviews:

All the feels

I downloaded samples of Brendan Halpin's work on my Kindle after reading some editorial comments by him on a website I frequent. I liked his sass and smarts, and thought I'd see if that carried in to his writing. This book, about his wife's battle with stage-4 breast cancer pulled me right in. It was like sitting with my best friend and talking real, no holds barred emotions about how terrible and horrible and wonderful life is. It's a love story and that love is on full display here, but not in a schmaltz, cheesy way. He writes love, anger, frustration well, and if you're not a robot or space alien, you know those feelings. He also has pretty great taste in music, as he mentions several albums and artists throughout that had me rushing to download. This book moved me to tears and laughter, and had me doing some reflecting on my own life. I will be checking out the rest of Halpin's back catalog.

Loss and Lessons

What a beautiful story. How difficult it must have been for this man to write this. As a cancer patient, a well a the caregiver of others with cancer. sometimes it is easier to BE the patient, than to watch the we love go through the struggle.

It just feels REAL.

Missing all of the sappiness of some cancer memoirs, and uniquely told from the husband's perspective. What this book is lacking in comprehensiveness (you won't find All You Need to Know about anything here) and cohesiveness (its journal style kind of jumps about from place to place), it makes up for in sheer down-to-earth reality, alternative between optimism and pessimism, soaring and crashing by turns. A really good personal memoir from a talented author.

Incredible book!

This is the most amazing book I've ever read. Mr. Halpin writes with amazing honesty about his experience, without whitewash or apology. The book bounces back and forth between hilarious episodes that are all the more funny because often the people around them don't get it, to the laid-bare terror of dealing with cancer in someone you love and can't imagine living without. I can't stand sentimental books, and this isn't one, and yet some of his revelations took my breath away with their poignancy and honesty. I tend to be a library borrower rather than a book buyer, but this is one to own.

One Star

Struggled to finish the book. Was not an engaging story.