Growing Pains of a Hapless HouseHusband

Bought this book for a light reading. And indeed it was a light reading after all the intense title previously.

Sam Holden was retrenched from his management consultancy firm and as the title says it all, he became a househusband while his wife, Sally worked as the breadwinner in some government agency. As luck might have it, he bumped into a reality TV producer and while cranking his head for some conversation, Sam blurted out that filming a management style childcare programme could be the new reality TV show. And Holden Childcare Programme was born.

It wasn't all honey-smooth for Sam as Sally wasn't really hooked on the idea of him teaching/managing other people's family while leaving their own children for the nanny to take care. Which in a way defeat the purpose of Sam being a househusband in the first place. One of the funny moments was when Sam had to resort to pretend Emily, the neighbourhood vixen, to be his wife as Sally wouln't budge on her stand for not to be film in the TV show. Of course Sam had an earful out of the scene when the preview DVD was shown. It couldn't be worse when Emily have the hots for Sam.

Somehow the Holden Childcare Programme became a hit and Sam was offered with lots of interviews, talkshow and even a column in the daily newspaper. But as he discovered later in the book, the reality TV weren't as real as it is shown and the reality TV has made him into another Sam that was lying and conniving, and that pulled him back to the real reality that he was living in.

The reader's review:
This book somehow shown how man's ego really works. Funny in a way as we see how the thoughts flow and being projected out in a man's view.

Overall:
3.0 stars rating (out of 5 stars)