Another (book) quickie

As promised I took a few hours to read the next offering in a series of short offerings from Alexander McCall Smith.  I read and reviewed the first in the series here and I liked it.

This one, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, didn't disappoint either.  That's right, I said "sausage dogs."

Mistaken for a vet, the Professor has no choice but to perform emergency surgery on an unsuspecting sausage dog.  Naturally, this leads to lectures on the finer points of sausage dogs and ultimately a trip to the Vatican where said sausage dog eats the bones of Father Christmas.   Sound ridiculous?  It is.  But so is that book cover we posted the other day.  And over 350 of you liked that enough to click on it.  You're welcome.

Short. Funny. Done.

I don't know about you, but short,  funny, and done is how I like my summer reading.  I save the long, drama-filled plot twists and turns for the school year.  Summer, in my view, should be filled with quick little funny stories that I can pick up at the pool and put down once a friend plops down next to me and my Build-a-Bear towel. 

Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith (of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency fame) is just that.  It follows Professor Dr. von Igelfeld and his haphazard band of academic acquaintances all over Europe.   Very proud of his title and of his published novel about verbs, Dr. Von Igelfeld takes himself way too seriously. And it's funny. 

There are two more in this series and I plan to finish them this summer.  Where, you ask? At the pool, of course!

Happy reading!