Passing On Review



I know what you want: You want to know what other people have to think about Slightly Off the Mark: The Unpublished Columns. And who can blame you?

What, you don’t want that? You want … brownies? Well, okay, go get a snack and then come back.

Here’s a review by author DM Yates, who’s more than just a trophy wife:

She compares me to Mark Twain, despite the fact that I’ve never piloted a riverboat, and I look terrible in white. We’re both Marked, though.

Here’s a review by Kay Kauffman, who has a signed affidavit that we’re related by neither blood nor bank account:

Kay insists the book is chock full of laughs, as opposed to initial reports that she laughed ‘till she choked, and a three day investigation by the Wapello County Sheriff Department has confirmed this.

Those and two other reviews can be found on Goodreads:

The other two reviews are by Barry Parham, who himself is a humor writer and thus should know better, and Joleen Naylor, whose horror stories about vampires make her an expert on politics.

By Federal statute Goodreads can only list books that are good reads, as determined through a review by the Mount Airy, North Carolina, Police Department. Writers who violate this statute can be thrown into a weekend drunk tank with Otis, a long-term convict rumored to have both body odor and severe halitosis. These reviews can, then, be viewed with a high degree of accuracy.



6 comments:

  1. Congrats on the reviews. People read mine. Tell me how wonderful they are, but they do not write reviews. I shouldn't complain. They buy the next one.

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    1. Maybe they're about two dozen reviews behind, like I am? But I suppose buying is more important than reviewing -- at least, in the short run.

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  2. I'm WAY behind on writing reviews--but you're on my list, Mark.

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    1. Aren't we all! I have a bunch of reading and reviewing to do.

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  3. Same here, but those are terrific, Mark.

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