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[alyson]

This book can be read all the way through in about an hour, and it's very cute. The author is a restaurant critic for the NY Times, and has a pleasant turn of phrase. The whole book is about a period of about three months, at the beginning of which a chicken randomly shows up in his Queens backyard, and makes itself at home.

Grimes' observations about his neighborhood, chickens, cats, and himself are pithy and wry, and I think you should give this a read sometime when you have an hour at a coffeeshop. People will look at you funny when you laugh out loud, but you'll find yourself reading passages out loud to them. Then again, maybe you should read this at home.

[shaw]

[galactic_dev]

Alyson, 25 in '05 means 25 by the end of the year 2005, not by month 05 (May). You're putting me to shame!

[alyson]

I don't have it anymore, it was a library book, but I think it's from the 70's or 80's. It was small and hardbacked and had a lot of illustrations that I thought were probably from a magazine or newspaper illustrator(visual memory strikes again yet avoids the useful information).

Dev, I'm writing hardly any reviews now. I keep rereading favorites. Does this count as me slowing down to make you look better?