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020    9781452627434|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 
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100 1  Finch, David,|d1977- 
245 14 The journal of best practices :|ba memoir of marriage, 
       Asperger syndrome, and one man's quest to be a better 
       husband /|cDavid Finch. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio :|bMade available through 
       hoopla,|c2012. 
300    1 online resource (1 audio file (420 min.)) :|bdigital. 
336    spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 
337    audio|bs|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
506    Digital content provided by hoopla. 
511 0  Read by the author. 
520    At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds 
       herself asking, What is wrong with my husband?! In David 
       Finch's case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five 
       years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they
       learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis 
       explains David's ever-growing list of quirks and 
       compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and 
       otherwise melt down in social exchanges, and his clinical-
       strength inflexibility. But it doesn't make him any easier
       to live with.Determined to change, David sets out to 
       understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better 
       husband-no easy task for a guy whose inability to express 
       himself rivals his two-year-old daughter's, who thinks his
       responsibility for laundry extends no further than 
       throwing things in (or at) the hamper, and whose autism-
       spectrum condition makes seeing his wife's point of view a
       near impossibility.Nevertheless, David devotes himself to 
       improving his marriage with an endearing yet hilarious 
       zeal that involves excessive note-taking, performance 
       reviews, and most of all, the Journal of Best Practices: a
       collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies 
       that result from self-reflection both comic and painful. 
       They include "Don't change the radio station when she's 
       singing along," "Apologies do not count when you shout 
       them," and "Be her friend, first and always." Guided by 
       the Journal of Best Practices, David transforms himself 
       over the course of two years from the world's most trying 
       husband to the husband who tries the hardest, the husband 
       he'd always meant to be.Filled with humor and surprising 
       wisdom, The Journal of Best Practices is a candid story of
       ruthless self-improvement, a unique window into living 
       with an autism-spectrum condition, and proof that a true 
       heart can conquer all. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Asperger's syndrome|xPatients|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Asperger's syndrome|xPatients|xFamily relationships
       |zUnited States. 
650  0 Husbands|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Fathers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Self-actualization (Psychology)|vCase studies. 
650  0 Marriage|vCase studies. 
650  0 Families|vCase studies. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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