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thelibraryofminds 's review for:
The Doldrums
by Nicholas Gannon
This is a case of I think false advertising. I want to talk to the marketing people and say just sell the book you have-because if you sell a different book, people will be expecting that book and they won't love the charms of this one. This book is sold more as an adventure, but the title is more accurate. Its about a small boy named Archer who wants so very much to go on an adventure but he feels trapped in his (extremely interesting) home filled with relics of his grandparents' adventures. Its about that longing and building friendships and its really just about ordinary life in so many ways, and its full of just the most lovely illustrations done by the author. I read this aloud to my husband whenever we went on car trips over the last two months, and it is so wonderful to read aloud-so there's that. And I did really enjoy this lovely book and will be looking forward to the next one. Just expect a quieter book with some lovely laugh-out-loud moments and some well placed grade A shenanigans.