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Dear Committee Members
by Julie Schumacher
Slim and sharply-targeted, much like a rapier, skewering its subject matter. I chuckled my way through most of it -- funny but so on target that it was simultaneously funny and sad. I hope that the author isn't basing this too directly on her own university teaching experience.
There isn't much plot -- told through letters of recommendation, the writer reveals parts of history when he references parts of his past. But the character is well-drawn and, in spite of himself, likable. I definitely got the feeling that he was a real person -- and that he would be exasperated to find out that I harbor a fondness for him. He tries very hard to care only for his books, but is a part of the larger world in spite of himself.
Perhaps I feel this way because, I admit, this book could be an auto-biography written by a relative of mine. It read suspiciously similarly to his annual holiday letters...
I received a copy of this from the Publisher through NetGalley. But I will certainly be buying copies to give as gifts -- if only to those who will appreciate it.
There isn't much plot -- told through letters of recommendation, the writer reveals parts of history when he references parts of his past. But the character is well-drawn and, in spite of himself, likable. I definitely got the feeling that he was a real person -- and that he would be exasperated to find out that I harbor a fondness for him. He tries very hard to care only for his books, but is a part of the larger world in spite of himself.
Perhaps I feel this way because, I admit, this book could be an auto-biography written by a relative of mine. It read suspiciously similarly to his annual holiday letters...
I received a copy of this from the Publisher through NetGalley. But I will certainly be buying copies to give as gifts -- if only to those who will appreciate it.