How many books did YOU sell?
Barry Callaghan's latest book gets sort of a nod in Books in Canada. (I'd provide a link, but BiC is not online.) I say 'sort of' because although Michael Greenstein reviews, briefly, Callaghan's Raise You Five, he finishes the piece off with a demoralizingly flip comment:
"Raise You Five is very much of its time, but Callaghan trumps the Toronto Telegram in these essays that go beyond local interest. With volumes 2 and 3 he should have a full deck: high fives to Barry Callaghan who deserves more than four or five readers."
Well, either I am the number six reader, or worse... included in the number four or five. Yes, the comments are surely meant figuratively but it's a heck of a way to conclude a review. Thanks, I think?
I guess it could always be worse... like this book review of Portable Altamont, by Brian Joseph Davis. Reviewed by Zach Wells:
“This book strikes me as the product of boredom; it’s a colossal waste of time to read, and one can only imagine the hours of human labour irretrievably lost in its production.” via FHOLE
"Raise You Five is very much of its time, but Callaghan trumps the Toronto Telegram in these essays that go beyond local interest. With volumes 2 and 3 he should have a full deck: high fives to Barry Callaghan who deserves more than four or five readers."
Well, either I am the number six reader, or worse... included in the number four or five. Yes, the comments are surely meant figuratively but it's a heck of a way to conclude a review. Thanks, I think?
I guess it could always be worse... like this book review of Portable Altamont, by Brian Joseph Davis. Reviewed by Zach Wells:
“This book strikes me as the product of boredom; it’s a colossal waste of time to read, and one can only imagine the hours of human labour irretrievably lost in its production.” via FHOLE
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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