Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny: Review Haiku

You're even reading
this review in Garrison
Keillor's voice, aren't you.

Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny by Garrison Keillor. Penguin, 2012, 224 pages.

Pilgrims: Review Haiku

Good, but I really
don't need to read sex scenes by
Garrison Keillor.

Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance by Garrison Keillor. Viking, 2009, 297 pages.

Life Among the Lutherans: Review Haiku

Warmed-up retellings
from APHC. Just like
leftover hotdish.

Life Among the Lutherans by Garrison Keillor. Augsburg, 2009, 183 pages.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: Review Haiku

Take a way-cool topic
and suck the life out of
it. Bueller? Bueller?

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond. Norton, 1999, 494 pages. Listened to on a Playaway device.

#44 on The LIST.

Note: To be fair, the version I listened to was abridged. Perhaps the full text is more exciting.

The Odyssey: Review Haiku

If I hear "the child
of morning, rosy-fingered
dawn" one more time, I'll . . .

The Odyssey by Homer (maybe). 8th century BC (ish). Listened to on a Playaway device.

#35 on The LIST.

Pride and Prejudice: Review Haiku

Two blowhards meet cute
in Austen's classic rom-com.
Paging Colin Firth . . .

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Vintage, originally published 1813, 368 pages. #34 on The LIST. Listened to on a Playaway.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Review Haiku

Wait, this book is full
of Christian symbolism?
But it's so subtle . . .

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. Geoffrey Bles, 1950, 186 pages.

#23 on The LIST. Listened to on a Playaway device (read by Michael York, who, sadly, is now forever associated with an unfortunate cup of coffee).

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus: Review Haiku

Ran, runned -- I don't care,
since you kept La Munch entranced
on a long car ride.

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Barbara Park. Random, 1992, 80 pages. Listened to the unabridged CD from Recorded Books, read by Christina Moore.

Spent Saturday at the Rutgers One-on-One Plus Conference in Jersey. Got to meet Fuse, catch up with some old friends, and hang out with a slew of writers and illustrators at various stages in their professional lives. Apologies again for forgetting business cards. At least I remembered to wear pants.