Book Reviews with Elvira!
Due to the length of the last Journal I read, I decided to find something a bit easier to get through. however, I may have chosen wrong!
Fish and How to Eat Them
This book was verrrry difficult! Clement has compared it to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, or Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist in its allegorical complexity (his words). I have only read it once, but I feel I will need to reread it several times before I am able to understand the themes I know are there. The book, written by vampire hunter Neil Lawrence, is about how vampires hunt, and how to protect yourself from them. It centers around the story of a young man learning to fish, taught by a wizened bat who hangs from the sleeves of the young man's coat.
Despite the fact that I for the most part didn't understand it, I enjoyed reading this book. On the surface, the story is very funny, though the bat can be a bit obtuse and confusing, saying things that the young man (and myself) are not even sure how to begin to understand.
My rating for this book is 5 out of 10 teeth, though I am sure that once I have read it a few more times I will have a better opinion of it. It was very difficult for me to get anything besides surface level themes about pain and predatory behavior. Again, I will need a few more reads to truly understand what is going on.
Clement has suggested that I read another Neil Lawrence book which he wrote with Andromeda Lionheart called So You Want to Raise a Human, a novel about two vampires who accidentally come into possession of a human toddler. Both he and Jihei have read it and said that it is very funny, but also a little sad. Do you think I should read it?
Hugs,
Elvira
