Blue Mass Group

A shameless plug for a book by a friend. Tad Friend, as it happens, a staff writer at The New Yorker whose paean Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor is in bookstores this week. You buy the book, he gets money, and is cheerful, or something like that.

It is a “rich insight into WASP culture,” according to NPR, a “winsome memoir” per the NYT, and “a book for all of us,” according to the SF Chronicle. From the NPR review:

Tad Friend’s parents tried to entice their three children into “sunnier moods” with what they called “Cheerful Money,” a 25-cent reward dropped into a glass jar whenever “one of us demonstrated good humor under duress or was spontaneously helpful.”

Sounds like something we might want to institute on BMG. Perhaps a “cheerful rating” button would be more apropos. Get it now on Amazon.com before they are all gone.