booksblabbering 's review for:

The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

3.75

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This was ADORABLE.

This is told from the perspective of a dog, stream of consciousness style from a hyperactive free dog loving life in a wild park. If that doesn’t sell you I don’t know what will.

I was laughing, smiling, and definitely wanting to become an animal to join in on their shenanigans. 

This is supposed to be a children’s book, but anyone can enjoy it. The tone isn’t overly childish, the plot isn’t plain or boring. 

Despite the bragging of Johannes, the off-key humour, it never becomes so cringy that older readers will be put off. Yet it also appeals to young readers.

What made this so great is Johannes’s genuine excitement at everything. It was extremely refreshing. There are MANY hyperboles and exaggerations yet this added to Johannes’s over the top character and perception. 

<b>“If we go through life assuming everything will be complicated, and then it is complicated, doesn’t that make us better prepared? What I mean is, if we expect life to be complicated, and life is complicated, then life is simple, right?”

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I would recommend the audibook format because it just added so much more to the telling. The narrator embodied the voice of this naive, innocent, funny, arrogant, and brave dog. 

Audiobook arc gifted Belinda Audio.