ARE YOU LISTENING? DAY: SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK AUDIO BOOK- REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY

WELCOME TOBOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S "ARE YOU LISTENING? DAY"I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS FRIDAY'S "ARE YOU LISTENING? DAY"
AUDIO BOOK CHOICE IS.....
SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK
BY DAVID SEDARIS
READ BY DAVID SEDARIS & SIAN PHILLIPS

ABOUT THE AUDIO BOOK:Featuring David Sedaris's unique mix of fun as well as heart, this new pick up of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an complete delight. Though the characters might not be human, the situations in these stories bear an supernatural resemblance to the insanity of bland life.

In "The Toad, the Turtle, as well as the Duck," 3 strangers empathize about animal bureaucracy while watchful in the complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," the asocial feline struggles to lay by his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel as well as the Chipmunk," the span of unhappy lovers is separated by biased family members.

With original illustrations by Ian Falconer, writer of the bestselling Olivia series of children's books, these stories have been David Sedaris during his many observant, poignant, as well as surprising, as well as h! e as wel l as Phillips make it which most more enjoyable to listen to. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:David Sedaris is the playwright as well as the regular writer for National Public Radio. He is additionally the writer of the bestselling Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays upon Ice, Dress Your Family in Corduroy, Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames as well as Me Talk Pretty One Day. He travels extensively though Europe as well as the United States upon harangue tours as well as lives in France.
MY REVIEW:
SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK is the opposite David Sedaris from the a single who readers know for his interesting as well as amusing stories from his past as well as own hold up experiences. In this new book, the stories have been really what we might wish to call fables though these have been not Aesop during all. Yes, they do underline animals revelation the stories as well as there is the doctrine or moral though again, not quite the single we might wish to share or follow necessarily. However, they will make we giggle for the many part. The humor does get the bit dim as well as so we caution we to not inapplicable designation this for the childs animal story book! This is not Bambi as well as Winnie the Pooh, as well as in fact these animals mostly do the small flattering awful things. However, Sedaris uses his animal characters to get his sarcastic as ! well as mostly ungodly points across.

The book is done up of sixteen of these fables as well as they embody stories like the single of my favorites The Judicious Brown Chicken where the single duck tells her sister which when she is with the rooster she sometimes wishes she was with another duck instead. The doctrine during the finish is, according to the sister, which she dies as well as it is since she suspicion unnatural thoughts as well as we can almost see Sedariss face with the See what we mean about the small people? demeanour upon his face. Added to all this have been the wonderfully gifted illustrations by Ian Falconer in the book. With the audio book, Sedaris nicely includes in the third CD the PDF record with illustrations from the book. we customarily giggle out loud during Sedariss stories as well as there were the lot we laughed during in this the single though there were additionally the small which were the small as well out there for meperhaps the small as well dark. But overall, he is the really gifted as well as funny story teller as well as we do think most appropriate heard even more so than read.

GIVEAWAY

THANKS TO ANNA AND THE GOOD FOLKS
AT THE HACHETTE BOOK GROUP,
we HAVE 3 COPIES OF THIS HILARIOUS
AUDIO BOOK TO GIVE AWAY!

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