2020 Reading Challenge: A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics

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Moving Foreword: Real Introductions to Totally Made-Up Books by Jon Chattman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


More of 3.5 but good enough to round up.

This book was downright hysterical. It takes a look at a part of books that is oft-times overlooked, skipped and otherwise ignored... the Foreword. So rather than to continue to let this bit of literary monotony linger in obscurity, the editor Jon Chattman has chosen to elevate it and make it the star is should have been all along.

This book is exactly what the title says... Real Introductions to Totally Made-Up Books. Chattman recruited famous and not so famous people to write forewords to imaginary books and have them be either from themselves or a fictitious person. I was howling with laughter in the first chapter to the Foreword to the Autobiography of the Kool-Aid Man. There's the book by Newt Gingrich written on behalf of Besty DeVos. The secret gay lover writes opens the Memoirs of Chewbacca.

There are some that did not hold my attention, but in general I would totally recommend this collection for anyone who loves a good laugh and books.



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