This book feels like it is right up my alley – it’s written a Canadian author, it’s clever and well thought out, there is humour, it was nominated for Canadian literature awards. It’s BAIT, but I just struggled to force myself through it after it sitting on my TBR pile for two years. The narrator here is a 500 year old parrot named Aaron, telling the part of his life story he values the most. He tells of “his shoulder,” a young Jewish man named […]
The Memoirs of a Chatty African Grey Parrot
Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says! I saw lumenatrix’s review of this one, and was immediately intrigued. Jewish pirates during the Spanish Inquisition and Columbus? A five-hundred-year old parrot narrator? A gorgeous cover? Yes, please! Or to quote the narrator, a story about, “Pirates. Parrots. Jews. Jewels. The Inquisition. Gefilte fish. Gold. A Girl.” While I quite enjoyed this one, I also feel like I approached it in the wrong way. I was so excited about the whole Jewish pirate thing that I may have raced through […]
Listen to the Farkakte Bird, Bubula. He Has a Story to Tell
This is a very sweet book. It really left me with a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart. I picked it almost at random from the library website because I have been reading a lot of heavy stuff and I wanted something funny to cleanse the palate a bit and, well Yiddish for Pirates sounds funny. It did the trick, but there is a really good, strong story here too. The story is told by a 500-year-old parrot named Aaron. He has lasted this […]