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How the hell do you write a James Kochalka review? I’ve been trying to figure that out since I re-read Kissers for this. It’s, at least on the surface, a story about love, I guess. Spandy the cat falls in love with a cute little bird and Magic Boy keeps acting stupid and pisses Amy off over and over. Everything works out OK, but the story doesn’t mean a damned thing here. All of his books are purely about the characters and the things that make them do what they do. Usually, that thing is “nothing”. They just do things for a certain amount of pages and then the book is over. These aren’t the kinds of books that you pick up if you’re looking to read an evening away, as I think this one took me about 20 minutes to read. It does come with a CD too, and I’ve read all of his other stuff at least half a dozen times (I was late in getting this one), so it’s not like it’s a waste of money to buy his books because you read them so quick. You can go back to them again and again. Most of his books fit a certain mood for me. I’ll tell more about the moods when I review the rest of them, but the point is that they’re all perfect for something. I don’t know how he managed to pull that off but hey, I guess that’s why he’s a superstar. Man, that blushing bird has to be one of the cutest things that I’ve seen in a long time…<\/p>\n

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How the hell do you write a James Kochalka review? I’ve been trying to figure that out since I re-read Kissers for this. It’s, at least on the surface, a story about love, I guess. Spandy the cat falls in love with a cute little bird and Magic Boy keeps acting stupid and pisses Amy off over and over. Everything works out OK, but the story doesn’t mean a damned thing here. All of his books are purely about the characters and the things that make them do what they do. Usually, that thing is “nothing”. They just do things for a certain amount of pages and then the book is over. These aren’t the kinds of books that you pick up if you’re looking to read an evening away, as I think this one took me about 20 minutes to read. It does come with a CD too, and I’ve read all of his other stuff at least half a dozen times (I was late in getting this one), so it’s not like it’s a waste of money to buy his books because you read them so quick. You can go back to them again and again. Most of his books fit a certain mood for me. I’ll tell more about the moods when I review the rest of them, but the point is that they’re all perfect for something. I don’t know how he managed to pull that off but hey, I guess that’s why he’s a superstar. Man, that blushing bird has to be one of the cutest things that I’ve seen in a long time…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Website Kissers How the hell do you write a James Kochalka review? I’ve been trying to figure that out since I re-read Kissers for this. It’s, at least on the surface, a story about love, I guess. Spandy the cat falls in love with a cute little bird and Magic Boy keeps acting stupid and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2182,490],"class_list":["post-13627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-james-kochalka","tag-kissers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}