Clive Biley Biley itibaren Pichl-Kainisch, Austria
I'm sure this is much more interesting if you have or are about to have children. I thought it was so-so and fairly anti-climactic.
a good mix of poems that are great to read aloud and relatively easy to understand
I loved the crap out of Zadoff's first book but I really had to force myself through this one. And I am a freaking theatre geek; this was an easy sell to me. I just never felt truly invested in Z's story. A billion notes struck seemed false - conversations with friends and fellow techies and Derek--none of that seemed like a reality I knew. And I have worked backstage, and I have performed, and yet very little of this took me back to anything I could relate to. And after the three-dimensional look at a fat protag in his first book, and knowing what was documented in his memoir, I'm grossed out that Zadoff writes every fat stereotype into his portrayal of the drama teacher. Look, I am fat myself, and I promise I have ways of dealing with stress other than eating Hostess products. (read: 65)