I Sleep at Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets

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Summary: Hit the nail on the head
Review: As the aunt of triplet girls, so many of the incidents brought back memories. From the sleepless nights to the grocery shopping mayhem, Stockler could have been telling my sister's story. Stockler has managed to capture not only the difficulties of raising multiples, but also the rewards x 3. I would love to see a sequel,let us know what the teen years will bring!!

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Summary: I completely understand...
Review: As the mother of two sets of twins born 3 years apart I can understand everything Bruce writes about. For all of you that wrote negative comments you probably haven't been there or done it so don't criticize his or Roni's parenting techniques. With so many kids the same age you have to do whatever keeps you sane, even if it is hiring a nanny to care for your kids. I loved this book and would recommend it to parents, especially dads of multiples.

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Summary: A Wonderful Memoir
Review: Bruce Stockler's I Sleep at Red Lights is a wondeful memoir which recounts Stockler's experience, for a couple years at least, of parenting triplets. Stockler's experience is a little different than most dads, however. While his wife is a high-powered lawyer at a Manhattan law firm, Stockler is the one who eventually stays home with the kids. They start out in Manhattan in a small apartment, but eventually move to the suburbs. Stockler's story is very funny and heartwarming. ONe of the things that makes this book work is Stockler's almost brutal honesty--he sugarcoats nothing--not his relationship with his wife or his feelings for his kids. His life has not been picture-perfect in the Norman Rockwell sense, but there is a lot of love in that Stockler family and Stockler shares it with us well. Enjoy.

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Summary: A Wonderful Memoir
Review: Bruce Stockler's I Sleep at Red Lights is a wondeful memoir which recounts Stockler's experience, for a couple years at least, of parenting triplets. Stockler's experience is a little different than most dads, however. While his wife is a high-powered lawyer at a Manhattan law firm, Stockler is the one who eventually stays home with the kids. They start out in Manhattan in a small apartment, but eventually move to the suburbs. Stockler's story is very funny and heartwarming. ONe of the things that makes this book work is Stockler's almost brutal honesty--he sugarcoats nothing--not his relationship with his wife or his feelings for his kids. His life has not been picture-perfect in the Norman Rockwell sense, but there is a lot of love in that Stockler family and Stockler shares it with us well. Enjoy.

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Summary: Warm, moving, hillarious - what a family is!
Review: Bruce Stocklers story of life after triplets left me feeling that the joys of parenthood are what life is all about. From running through supermarkets, to mealtime and equal time, children are the fun and laughter of our lives. The book is also poignant. Stocklers description of bringing his older son into the healthfood srore to make fun of the funny foods, shows a sentitive and observant side that all children, whether they be a multiple, the oldest or youngest all deserve their parents time and energy. When he describes his tiny wife, bedridden and huge, its hard not to laugh at his desciption and cry for her predicament. Bruce Stockler says he realizes the sacrifices his wife made for him to be able to stay home and write and care for the children while she worked long hard hours, also shows a man who understands how lucky he is to have a wife who not only was able to support a family, but to sacrifice for their well being.

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Summary: Most Unusual Love Story
Review: Funny, warm, touching, well-written, insightful, unusual, illuminating -- I was thinking all of these things about this wonderful book, and then I realized that it really is a love story. It's a love story between a Dad and his kids and about his journey as a man -- deciding that he doesn't need his job or career or ego to be happy, but that he wants to be the kind of father he never had. It's a deceptively smart book -- Stockler keeps the story going very quickly, and so much is happening -- that you almost don't notice how much emotional distance he travels. I'm going to buy this as a Christmas gift to my girlfriends -- either with kids or single -- because not only is it a love story, and funny, but it has a happy ending. Hoping there's a sequel?

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Summary: One Of The Best Books of 2003
Review: I absolutely fell in love with this book, a gift from a girlfriend. It's one of those books you pass along to people you love. It's unique--memoir, journey, humorous essay, exploration of marriage--and incredibly passionate. The book received almost no hype, which is a shame, because it's as good or better than most of the 2003 memoirs, large and small--Ambulance Girl, Jarhead, True Notebooks, Hillary Clinton, etc. It's 100 times the book that "A Million Little Pieces" is, but it's almost always about the advertising and the PR, not the book. A charming, intelligent and surprising book, for parents and non-parents alike.

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Summary: My Christmas List
Review: I am giving this wonderful, funny and clear-eyed book about family, marriage, love, career and the meaning of life to my sisters, girlfriends, my two aunts and the other teachers in my school for Christmas. Also on my Xmas list is Mitch Albom's "The Five People...", which is more manipulative and sentimental, but, put together, a nice combination of a great book by a first-time author and an easy-reading best-seller.

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Summary: I laughed out loud while reading it!!
Review: I am ordering a few more copies to send to my friends who also have small kids because it is HYSTERICAL and so true to life - even if you don't have multiples. Please read this book!

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Summary: Groundbreaking New Memoir
Review: I am so happy I found this book. I love memoirs and biographies, but this book is one-of-a-kind. Stockler sees everything in his life--his marriage to his wacky wife, his 3-year-old, and the startling news that his small family is going to double in size--through a comic lens. But that lense is incredibly sharp and accurate--behind all the funny stories there is a very penetrating sensibility. He finds the drama in the most mundane--a trip to the bathroom with all four kids--and the humor in the dramatic--when he goes to the NICU to see "Baby A" after the C-section, and the NICU seems to have lost the baby. There are moments of chaos and craziness followed by dollops of wistful insight that are real epiphanies. I have little kids and reading this book is like seeing my life in a whole new light. Some of the thoughts Stockler comes up with I have had myself, and some are so clever and funny I'm jealous I didn't think of them. It's really an amazing book and you can't put it in a category--it's a new kind of memoir for our new world of working moms, stay-at-home Dads, fertility problems, careers that go wrong. I hope you read it and give one to a friend. I'm curious if there might be a sequel...