Feline literary analysis
Trailersteading
is here! Actually, there's another story that goes along with the first
copies of the book, involving Kayla, an ill-fated zumba class, ice
cream, hostage negotiations, three lighters, way too many flashlights, a
trio of tired, freezing menfolk, and law enforcement with a
blood-pressure cuff. But rather than going there, I thought I'd ask our
feline overlords for their first impressions of my newest paperback.
"Hmm," said Huckleberry.
"Let's see. I count one, two, three, a billion photos of Mark, a couple
of toddlers, a bulldozer, a goat, a chicken, a bug for crying out loud,
and zero shots of what really matters --- cats. I'd give this one two thumbs down. You really coulda done better, Anna."
And here I'd been excited
about how well the profiles of the other eight trailersteaders looked
in print and how engagingly the book was laid out. Oh well ---
everyone's a critic. "Thanks for your opinion, Huckleberry," I answered.
"Let's see what Strider thinks."
Our younger cat gave his
analysis the good old college try. He sniffed and poked and watched as I
turned the pages. Then Strider stated his opinion.
"Well, I don't really
understand what all those little black squiggly things are --- ants? But
the pictures are bright and pretty. And Huckleberry's wrong --- I saw a
cat. So I'd say it's okay."
So there you have it --- Strider says my newest book is...okay. For $11.38 on Amazon,
how could you go wrong? I hope you'll give it a try and let me know how
your feline overlords rate this overview of an alternative approach to
voluntary simplicity. Thanks in advance for giving it a try!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Great about Trailersteading now available!
hope you don't leave us hanging, either about your icecream escapade--blood pressur cuff, I wonder who for??yi
Mom --- Don't worry --- everything turned out okay in the end! And the "blood pressure cuff" was actually an inflatable contraption used to pop open a car door, so no health scares.
Kayla --- So glad your cat gives the book at least his tentative approval! I'll have to add that to my editorial reviews "Ollie maybe approves."
Congrats on the new book!
And Huckleberry--you don't even HAVE thumbs, so I think it's physically impossible for you to give a two-thumbs-down review.