Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, (Paperback)

from MarshaKT

Mostly good book detailing the author's disgust with her job at the Boston Phoenix, to answering a Craig's list ad for a job as an assistant carpenter, to her finally "becoming" a carpenter. Throughout MacLaughlin intersperses raw physical descriptions of the work with more metaphysical and spiri...

from Jeeps

Nina MacLaughlin was a professional writer (well, still is, technically, since she wrote this book and all) who left her newspaper job to try out carpentry as a career. Which is actually something I've been interested in pursuing as a hobby so, as a writer, this was really interesting to me from ...

from weeta

Nominated for the New England Book Awards in non-fiction, Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter is a lyrically constructed memoir of a twenty-something female journalist turned carpenter. In 2008, Nina MacLaughlin found herself in a stable, well-paying journalism career, feeling increasingly uni...

from weeta

Nominated for the New England Book Awards in non-fiction, Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter is a lyrically constructed memoir of a twenty-something female journalist turned carpenter. In 2008, Nina MacLaughlin found herself in a stable, well-paying journalism career, feeling increasingly uni...