From d8f84d2760e2c4aa38f263ecdf5428a9a96b80fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:32:54 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Book review: K Is For Knifeball --- content/reviews/books/k-is-for-knifeball.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/books/k-is-for-knifeball.md diff --git a/content/reviews/books/k-is-for-knifeball.md b/content/reviews/books/k-is-for-knifeball.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4de0a5f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/k-is-for-knifeball.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ ++++ +title = "K is for Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice - Avery Monsen, Jory John" +date = 2020-02-19 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "fun", "avery monsen", "jory john"] + ++++ + +[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14553581-k-is-for-knifeball) +From the authors of the breakout bestseller All my friends are dead. (more +than 175,000 copies sold) and in the humorous vein of Go the F**k to Sleep +comes a laugh-out-loud collection of bad advice that turns the children's +alphabet book on its head. Adorable illustrated characters lead readers down a +path of poor decision-making, and alphabetical, rhyming couplets offer +terrible life lessons in which O is for opening things with your teeth, F is +for setting Daddy's wallet on fire, and R is for Raccoon (but definitely not +for rabies). With plenty of playfully disastrous choices lurking around every +corner, this compendium of black humor may be terrible for actual children, +but it's perfect for the common-senseless child in all adults. + + + +{{ stars(stars=3) }} + +What would happen if you mix "Please Go To Fucking Sleep" with an ABC book? "K +is for Knifeball". + +It's a "for-kids-but-not-kids" kinda of book: For example, "D is for Drifter, +which you should call to get in when your parents aren't at home" and "F is +Food, which you should give for the drifter living under your bed" (or +something around those lines)... Pretty much what "Go To Fucking Sleep" does. + +Surely one wouldn't recite the book to a kid anyway, and being really short, +I'm not sure about the re-readability of it. Still, it is somewhat amusing.