Dad Bod
Portraits of Pop Culture Papas

Thanks to Netgalley and Dundurn Press for the ARC of this! This was a fascinating look at Dads in pop culture, with an easy conversational tone that I really enjoyed. Papas ranged from the classic (Calvin’s Dad of Calvin and Hobbes) to the most modern (Bluey’s Dad) and ran the gauntlet of media, gen......more

Local author alert!! So this was a very intriguing book, and I read it with a bit of a different lens.. as a step mother. I've watched my partner grow and become a father and have all these same worries, concerns and thoughts as Cian. How fathers and men in general are portrayed is disastrous for our......more

In Dad Bod, Cian Cruise dives deep into various social notions of fatherhood by examining tropes and archetypes in pop culture father figures (the titular 'dad bods'). His essays are all framed within the experiences of being a new father himself, which adds a lovely sense of personal stakes to his......more