The Carpenter’s Notebook. This novel is a perfect gift idea for DIYers.

The first-and-only carpentry novel written, The Carpenter’s Notebook by my carpenter-husband Mark is now an ebook!

“I reached for my tape more like a gunslinger going for his six-shooter than a timid (albeit middle-aged) apprentice afraid to do the wrong thing.”

The answers to living a good life follow the rules of carpentry.

Mark’s love-story-carpentry novel, The Carpenter’s Notebook, is about a son learning jobsite lessons from his late father’s jobsite notes. The father’s jobsite wisdom helps the son Brendan finally deal with the challenges in his marriage, reawaken his long-lost connection to building, and rediscover how to live a truly engaged life.

With every swing of his hammer and turned page of his father’s notebook, Brendan tries to fulfill a promise to his late father: Rebuilding his late father’s old shop into an art studio for his mother. After discovering his father’s carpenter’s notebook, he obtains the inspiration he needs to rebuild his own life and face the challenges he’s avoided as a husband and father.

Mark uses building metaphors as a guide to living a well-intentioned and honorable life.

Illustrated how-to of real DIY projects included throughout the novel.

We hope you enjoy a few excerpts from The Carpenter’s Notebook below.

“Often just getting ready–nevermind the work–is as hard as the work itself.”

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