Review: "My baby takes the morning train...."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
Meet Andy. He's a strange, but functioning, Gen-Xer. Or maybe strangely functioning. Or functionally strange. It's tough to decide.Anyway, he's a thirty-something guy with a wife and small daughter who lives in a London suburb and has a one-hour daily commute (by train) to his job as an accountant.  Rather than sleep through it he decided to write a book. So instead of just sitting and thinking, he sits and thinks and writes it down. The results are very entertaining.I like this book because the author is likable.  He's a bit goofy, but basically he tries to do the right thing.  When he realized that alcohol was playing too large a role in his life, he quit drinking it.  When his beer gut applied for its own zip code, he cut out junk food and started doing more walking and lost 85 pounds.  And yet, he's not so admirable as to be irritating.  He gained 20 pounds of the weight back and and had to lose it again.  When he tried to save money by bringing coffee in a thermos, he left the thermos on the train so many times he he barely broke even.I enjoyed getting inside this young (to me) man's head and learning how he copes with modern life.  I agree with other reviewers that the second book in the series has more belly laughs and I'm looking forward to volume #3.