A continuing series that highlights books recently acquired by publishing houses for future release. Each post features a book we’re looking forward to, and a book we’re . . . not.
I too often allow a lack of cherries to keep me from posting a new entry in this series. So I’ll occasionally post a couple of pits; they’re more fun, anyway.
The Pit:
Dena Harris’ Who Moved My Mouse?: A Self Help Book For Cats (Who Don’t Need Any Help), which addresses the low self-esteem issues facing cats across the globe, and includes A Cat’s Conversations with God, and Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, But Feel Free to Freak Out Over Anything That Moves Suddenly or Without Warning.
Another Pit:
Marilyn Brant’s The Grand European, the story of a conservative young woman’s journey of self-discovery as she travels abroad with her adventurous aunt’s sudoku-and-mahjong club.
Sudoku? Adventurous?
I am much, much more interested in the travels of an elderly women’s sudoku-and-mahjong club than I am in a conservative young woman’s journey of self-discovery (”I was aghast… here they were, ne’er-do-wells, urchins, they had never worked an honest day in their lives; surely they were heroin addicts, or worse, and they listlessly thronged the streets of this otherwise-great metropolis as though they were entitled. The horror of a marxist socialist welfare state which would support these people, the horror! I knew I had finally discovered what my life was meant to be about!”)