I listened to the audio version which was read by Jason Gay himself. It was great. It made me laugh out loud. It also made me cry.

This is a laugh out loud funny book, and it never feels proud nor like he's preaching. Just some great wisdom and funny life stories in here.

The only thing I didn't like was all the bullet points throughout the book. I thought it would have been better if he'd just written the pages and left those out.

Rules?! I don't need no stinkin' rules...ok...maybe I do need more funny, insightful, sometimes ridiculous (but strangely still very smart) rules from Jason Gay.

I tend to not pay attention to by-lines on articles and I rarely read anything sports related, so I wasn't sure about reading something from a sports columnist I'd never heard of. But this book is fantastic. Several times while reading, I would text/call/talk to Jesse about how HE needed to read this book. There were several passages I highlighted -- like about being "cool" (do you KNOW how many "cool" parents I follow on Instagram. It's ridiculous because they're parents. They REALLY AREN'T COOL!). I have SO much embarrassing music on my phone and I'm no longer going to be ashamed of how many times I listen to "Bye Bye Bye" thanks to this book. He also discusses comments on the Internet and how he handles them. <3 Brilliant. So many good nuggets of knowledge and amazing advice from a wonderful writer.

Definitely a book to buy the fathers in your life -- the father of your children, the father of your father, the father that is your own, the potential father, any type of father. (I mean, sure, mothers, too, but especially all the dads.)

This was short, sweet, and bright. I loved that it made me think, made me laugh, made me smile.

I've never read Jason Gay's columns, but I was curious about a book that promoted "imperfect living". It's so disheartening sometimes to see the proliferation of books that promise perfection...and to know that the reason they are promoted constantly is because there are far too many people out there who believe they can actually attain that perfection. So even the title was refreshing!

Gay writes like he's chatting over coffee with a friend - it's casual, entertaining, and occasionally almost mind-reading. The topics are varied ("travel and snack packs", "your phone is not you", and "nobody's cool, especially me" are just a few of the sections in the book), have at least an element of humor to them (though to be honest, few were "laugh out loud funny" to me), and all have a truth to them that help show we all have perfectly imperfect lives - and we should be thankful for them, rather than striving for impossible perfection.

This book would be an excellent gift for just about anyone - particularly as a stocking-stuffer. It's small, it's interesting, it can be read in small chunks or all the way through at once, and it's message is such that anyone can benefit and/or appreciate it. As a gift, it doesn't get much better than that.

Little victories

I enjoyed this book. I started reading it hoping for some advice I could implement in my life. I didn't find that. I kept reading this book because it made me laugh.

Many LOLs. Once to tears.

Wonderful mixture of touching and delightfully funny stories....I recommend it highly. As the title suggests....the author leads the reader through a series of subjects which are the little victories in life.

“I mostly felt fortunate, to have lived here, in this house, in this town, with this family and these parents, and tried to think of all the things that had influenced me along the way.”
― Jason Gay, Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living