Title: Guide to Troubled Birds
Author: The Mincing Mockingbird [Matt Adrian]
Year: 2014
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Pages: 64
This book is more troubled than the birds. I bought it because I'd seem some of the author's greeting cards, which feature very engaging and attractive portraits of birds with pithy and sometimes discrepant statements. However, this collected volume can't stick to this combination, but overextends itself and tries to incorporate additional material. The end result is muddled, pretty hostile, not funny, and likely to alienate the bird lovers who would otherwise be willing to spend $16 on it. My suggestion is to enjoy this author's cards or magnets and skip the book, and the author's other two books as well. Enjoy the art or art plus captions, and avoid the rest.
I bought this to support an independent bookstore, which is the only reason I didn't return it.
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