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Publisher's Summary
In the number-one New York Times best seller Couplehood, Paul Reiser wrote about the highs and lows of falling in love and getting married - and the heartbreak and hilarity that comes with it. In Babyhood, he turned his sharply observant eye to the experiences of having a brand-new family. And now in Familyhood, Reiser shares his observations on parenting, marriage, and mid-life with the wit, warmth, and humor that he’s so well-known for.
From the first experience of sending his two boys off to summer camp - the early feelings of gleeful freedom in an empty house, to realizing how empty the house actually was - to maneuvering the minefield of bad words learned at school, this hilarious new book captures the spirit of familyhood, the logical next frontier for Reiser’s trademark perspective on the universal truths of life, love, and relationships.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Frank
- 06-03-11
Witty and warm, a pleasurable read
I'm a father of two sons who is also about Mr Reiser's age -- therefore we share the same worldview. Perhaps this is why I adored this book so much.
Even if you're not outfitted with such a similar perspective -- I can't see how anyone would not enjoy this book. His observations on technology, relationships, help give some perspective on modern life.
And he's just plain funny! I found myself laughing out loud - while listening alone to my MP3 player.
If you like Seinfeld (observational comedy), I think you'll love this. It's an easy read that is nothing but enjoyment.
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- Ottawa89
- 12-22-18
Great
Great story. I’ve listen to it many times. No one else could’ve read this book like the author.
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- Livin in the PNW
- 06-11-12
Funny and Ohh So True!
What made the experience of listening to Familyhood the most enjoyable?
I listened to this book driving to and back from Idaho and it passed the time perfectly. I could relate to all the stories and laughed so hard. I have always enjoyed Paul Reiser's humor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book! Such an insightful, honest book.
- By Kim Evans on 12-22-18
By: Catherine Tidd
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Life Will Be the Death of Me
- ...And You Too!
- By: Chelsea Handler
- Narrated by: Chelsea Handler
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,787
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,603
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,547
The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler’s year of self-discovery - featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants, and a lot of edibles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw Chelsea Hander
- By LSnid on 04-14-19
By: Chelsea Handler
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You're Not Doing It Right
- Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations
- By: Michael Ian Black
- Narrated by: Michael Ian Black
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 481
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Story4 out of 5 stars 441
"You’re not doing it right." Michael Ian Black has been hearing these five words all his life. And now—on the eve of his 40th birthday—he is finally beginning to wonder why. As a husband and father living in the suburbs, Michael asks the questions so many of us ask ourselves at one point or another, including "How did I end up here?" The answers are painstakingly detailed in this, Michael Ian Black’s debut memoir.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny, Heartfelt, and Honest
- By Grant on 04-09-12
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Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?
- Confessions of a Gay Dad
- By: Dan Bucatinsky
- Narrated by: Dan Bucatinsky
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 865
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 794
In 2005, Dan Bucatinsky and his partner, Don Roos, found themselves in an L.A. delivery room, decked out in disposable scrubs from shower cap to booties, to welcome their adopted baby girl - launching their frantic yet memorable adventures into fatherhood. Two and a half years later, the same birth mother - a heroically generous, pack-a-day teen with a passion for Bridezilla marathons and Mountain Dew - delivered a son into the couple’s arms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Parenting Book with Humor and Heart
- By The Reading Date on 02-05-14
By: Dan Bucatinsky
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Been There, Done That
- Family Wisdom for Modern Times
- By: Al Roker, Deborah Roberts, Laura Morton
- Narrated by: Al Roker, Deborah Roberts
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Life lessons from New York Times best-selling author and Today show personality Al Roker and his wife, globetrotting ABC news journalist Deborah Roberts. Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have 16 Emmy Awards between them. They have covered everything from the Olympics and the Gulf War to natural disasters and the AIDS crisis in Africa. Now these two married journalists and parents have collaborated on the most personal and important “story” of their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best books I've "read"! I loved it!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-11-20
By: Al Roker, and others
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The Schwa Was Here
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrated by: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
This audiobook follows eigth-grader "Antsy" Bonano as he looks back on three accidental, but beneficial friendships with a few interesting characters, including the often ignored Calvin Schwa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bad start but 5 chapters in its amazing
- By Jenn D on 08-25-17
By: Neal Shusterman
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Confessions of a Mediocre Widow
- Or, How I Lost My Husband and My Sanity
- By: Catherine Tidd
- Narrated by: Celeste Oliva
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29
Involuntarily single. That's the true story of where Catherine Tidd finds herself just three weeks after turning 31. Widowed with three children under six years old, a rusty resume, no fix-it skills, and no clue how to live life as a widow, Catherine can't help but be a little exasperated with her dead husband for leaving her to deal with life on her own. Catherine's now in charge of her life in a way she never wanted to be, in a way that would have most of us reeling and numb. But she soon realizes that when you call the shots, you can make pedicures one of the stages of grief....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book! Such an insightful, honest book.
- By Kim Evans on 12-22-18
By: Catherine Tidd
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uncharted terriTORI
- By: Tori Spelling
- Narrated by: Tori Spelling
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 501
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Story4 out of 5 stars 419
Welcome to Los Angeles, birthplace and residence of Tori Spelling. It’s not every Hollywood starlet whose name greets you on a Virgin Airways flight into la-la land. But Tori Spelling has come to accept that her life is a spectacle. Her name is her brand, and business is booming. Too bad that, when your job is to be yourself, you can’t exactly take a break. Tori finally has everything she thought she wanted - a loving family and a successful career - but trying to live a normal life in Hollywood is a little weird.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you are a Tori fan this is a must have.
- By Jessica on 10-28-10
By: Tori Spelling
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Foreverland
- On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
- By: Heather Havrilesky
- Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
In Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky illustrates the delights, aggravations, and sublime calamities of her marriage over the span of fifteen years, charting an unpredictable course from meeting her one true love to slowly learning just how much energy is required to keep that love aflame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny and Fair
- By Daniel Ducat on 02-15-22
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Babyhood
- By: Paul Reiser
- Narrated by: Paul Reiser
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
"[I]f I have only one audiobook to buy, shouldn't I go for the helpful one?" Let's compare: Those "know-it-all" books tell you how to have a happy, healthy pregnancy. My book mentions a squirrel. Those books tell you how to care for a newborn child. My book describes how tired I am.Those books give you essential information you can use in a life-threatening emergency. My book has some very amusing anecdotes about poop. So really, it's up to you.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic Paul Reiser goodness
- By NikkoTSM on 12-05-11
By: Paul Reiser
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Tasha
- A Son's Memoir
- By: Brian Morton
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In the spirit of Fierce Attachments, Bettyville, and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of his mother’s vibrant life and the many ways in which their tight, tumultuous relationship was refashioned in her twilight years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book
- By Barbara on 06-26-22
By: Brian Morton
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Father Fiction
- Chapters for a Fatherless Generation
- By: Donald Miller
- Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 94
A memoir with a message, this audiobook shares the angst of a boy growing up without a father and how he found his way.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Should make it clear this is a religious book
- By Victoria on 05-10-19
By: Donald Miller
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Gone with the Mind
- By: Mark Leyner
- Narrated by: Mark Leyner, Muriel Leyner, Peter Ganim, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
In this utterly unconventional autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark's mother, who's driven him to the mall and introduces him before he begins, and a few employees of fast food chain Panda Express who ask a handful of questions, the reading is completely without audience. The action of Gone with the Mind takes place exclusively at the food court, but the territory covered in this audio has no bounds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Postmodern Parody of the Disease of Self
- By Joe Kraus on 06-23-16
By: Mark Leyner
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How to Behave in a Crowd
- A Novel
- By: Camille Bordas
- Narrated by: Adam Alexi-Malle
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Isidore Mazal is 11 years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation. But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask. So when tragedy strikes the Mazal family, Isidore is the only one to recognize how everyone is struggling with their grief, and perhaps the only one who can help them - if he doesn't run away from home first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Charming and Moving
- By David P on 11-21-19
By: Camille Bordas
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Edward Unspooled
- By: Craig Lancaster
- Narrated by: David Otey
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 225
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 225
Change keeps stalking Edward Stanton. He and his new wife, Sheila, have retreated to his small house in Montana after an unsuccessful attempt at operating a motel in Colorado. That failure has left wounds, especially for Sheila, and now they face a bigger challenge: pregnancy and impending parenthood. Edward begins penning notes to the child (ever precise, he refers to the gestating being as "Cellular Stanton"), as he navigates married life with Sheila, who is unhappy and unfulfilled in Montana; a work partnership with his friend Scott Shamwell, and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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✫✫ 3.5 Stars ✫✫ for narration change
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 10-16-18
By: Craig Lancaster
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Juliet, Naked
- By: Nick Hornby
- Narrated by: Bill Irwin
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 629
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Story4 out of 5 stars 625
Annie loves Duncan - or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music 10 years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- By M. Hart on 12-23-09
By: Nick Hornby
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Freedom
- A Novel
- By: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: David LeDoux
- Length: 24 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,197
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,756
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,763
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter - environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Believe the Hype
- By L. Kerr on 09-07-10
By: Jonathan Franzen
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The Epiphany Machine
- By: David Burr Gerrard
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Story4 out of 5 stars 189
Everyone else knows the truth about you. Now you can know it, too. That's the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users' forearms. It's an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular one's been circulating New York since the 1960s. The ad works. And, oddly enough, so might the device....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A New Entry into Pantheon of NYC Cult Classics?
- By W Perry Hall on 08-01-17