{"id":17559,"date":"2010-12-06T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17559"},"modified":"2010-12-06T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:54:10","slug":"davies-p-f-because-i-am-stories-2004-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17559","title":{"rendered":"Davies, P.F. – Because I Am: Stories 2004-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because I Am: Stories 2004-2009<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I’d love to put an actual website up there for contact information, but there’s nothing on Google for P.F. and the only thing listed on the back of the book is a Twitter account, and fuck Twitter.\u00c2\u00a0 Ahem.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that I have a strong opinion about it or anything.\u00c2\u00a0 And that awful cover doesn’t get the book off to the most promising of starts, as it’s almost always a bad idea to put a story on the cover, even if it is a good story.\u00c2\u00a0 You’re trying to draw people in who might see this at a store or a convention, and that national attention span is too damned short to read a story on the cover these days (see: Twitter). Luckily things take a decided turn for the better once we get to the actual stories.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, it’s damned near flawless once you get that far, almost enough to get me over my annoyance that a graphic novel can be put out in this day and age without any proper contact information for the author.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories include an old man and his granddaughter and his quest over the years to nail down the specifics about a comet he’s discovered, meeting a nice girl while out on the town but missing the planned date due to being too responsible, a kid biting off more than he can chew in trying to pull off a bike trick, a silent (and brilliant) piece about the body fighting off indigestion, playing in a construction zone against the rules and having something go horribly wrong, a man taking a brief break from war by staying with a shepherd, the mystery uncovered by a metal detector, an old timey-tale about sniffing out the guy who’s sneaking in to sleep with another man’s daughter, and a silent bathtub dream about a pearl.\u00c2\u00a0 It covers a wide range of age groups and types of people and every bit of it is expertly handled.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s genuine emotion over here, a real laugh or two over there, and all the messy bits in between that make up life.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is well worth a look, my minor quibbles aside.\u00c2\u00a0 And Lulu is selling it for $7.54 at the moment, which is a steal for a book that’s this hefty.<\/p>\n

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Publisher’s Website Because I Am: Stories 2004-2009 I’d love to put an actual website up there for contact information, but there’s nothing on Google for P.F. and the only thing listed on the back of the book is a Twitter account, and fuck Twitter.\u00c2\u00a0 Ahem.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that I have a strong opinion about it or […]<\/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":[4411,4410],"class_list":["post-17559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-because-i-am","tag-p-f-davies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559","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=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17562,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions\/17562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}