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review 2018-06-30 00:22

When Bunnies Go Bad by Clea Simon (audiobook)

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When Bunnies Go Bad: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir - Clea Simon,Tavia Gilbert

Series: Pru Marlowe #6

I'll admit that I basically read/listened to this because of the talking to pets concept, and the talking to pets went fairly well. This was interesting in audio format and I'm not sure how it would have played out in print.

Pru Marlowe is kind of an animal behaviourist that works with training pets, walking dogs, etc. She's so good at her job because she can actually talk to her charges. Or at least she can pick up what they're thinking and interpret that as speech and communicate with the animals in turn. She stumbles across a body in her small town and things take off from there.

It was a silly mystery (talking to pets) but I enjoyed it, and I may even seek out the rest of the series at some point. I came into the middle of the series but this series seems to work reasonably well when read out of order. I didn't feel lost or bored by rehashing past relationships and events at all.

Pru has a cat called Wallace, and the narrator managed to nail the innate aloofness you'd expect in a cat. All of the dog voices were cartoonish, I'd say, but amusing.

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review 2017-08-28 20:52

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You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages - Carina Chocano

August 2017 My Book Box Non-Fiction Selection

Recently, I watched part of Keeping Up with the Jones. It’s a movie about a suburban couple whose new neighbors turn out to be spies/special agents/CIA something or other. It has a good cast, and there were parts that were quite funny. I didn’t watch all of it, however, because it soured. The two men become buds, in fact the movie is really a bromance despite the couples, but the two women nope. In fact, the suburban wife dislikes the spy woman even before the truth comes out. Because, as you know, women can never be friends with prettier women.
It was like, really? The wife is right, there is something sneaky going on, but her belief comes from jealously more than anything else. Additionally, proving her right also indicates that the female spy is not as good her husband, but it was really the whole friendship thing – men are friends, and that is emotionally important – while women can never be friends with other women. Not really.

I’m tired of that shit.

I think Chocano would agree with me.

Chocano’s book details the messages that pop culture seems to be giving women and girls, whether it is intentionally or unintentionally. Honesty, I want to kiss her because I thought I was the only one who was disturbed by Elsa’s change of dress in the movie. Her writing about Cinderella will ensure that you will never look at a Cinderella movie the same way. Her comments about being trained in English Literature are tattooed on everyone who has a literature degree.
The book is actually quite good because she focuses on things that are seen or meant to be “women’s” stories – like Sex in the City. It isn’t just the primary focus of the book – it is on pop culture and women, so shows like Mad Men are also discussed. She also addresses the desire to like something while realizing that it is problematic.

Chocano’s tone is conversational, and the book is an easy and engrossing read.

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review 2016-10-25 15:57

Show and Tell Bunnies by Kathryn Lasky

Mrs. Wade's Bundle of Books

Show and Tell Bunnies is a captivating and heartwarming story about a first grader named Clyde, who is filled with worries and fear before his first show and tell day at school. He searches high and low for an interesting object to bring to school and finally settles on a mysterious fuzzy treasure to bring to class. The object turned out to be a huge surprise and a big hit with his friends as spiderlings hatched from the fuzzy treasure. The author did an amazing job capturing all the true emotions that a young student might experience at the start of a new school year. This book would be an excellent choice to read to my lower elementary grades at the beginning of the school year or before our first show and tell. I would also use this story to integrate a study on spiders in science.

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review 2016-09-10 19:43

When Bunnies Go Bad, A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir by Clea Simon

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When Bunnies Go Bad: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir - Clea Simon

When Bunnies Go Bad, A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir by Clea Simon is a fun book to read. Pru Marlow needs to keep her communications with animals a secret, but she begins to suspect that it may be revealed in the investigation of the murder of an obnoxious tourist.

Pru Marlowe describes her feelings about vermin. "I've got little love for vermin of any species, and less for the human kind than most others. And I live in an omnivorous world, where predator and prey have been doing the survival polka for eons--and will be long after I've become food for whatever organism gets me."

Because it was so enjoyable, I gave it five stars.

I received a complimentary kindle copy from Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley. That did not change my opinion for this review.

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/When-Bunnies-Go-Bad-Marlowe-ebook/dp/B01BG9VURU

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