Monday, May 25, 2015

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun

22Feb. Kindle.

I used to try to get students to see that a great deal of humor is based on the juxtaposition of unlikely elements - probably a lost cause, the average sixteen-year-old still considers slapstick the height of funny. Here we have the crusty news veteran (owned by a siamese cat) set to provide light reading on interior decorating.

Herein enters siamese #2, the dainty YumYum to keep Koko company. Shades of "The Mikado;" Braun must have been (she died in 2011) a Gilbert and Sullivan fan.

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