Home Sweet Home Happy Accidents Book 4 edition by David Boyne Humor Entertainment eBooks
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"David Boyne effortlessly skewers some of life's big questions, walking a fine edge between humor and wisdom, reporting on the journey." --Krasna Svaboda, Eight Great Things About Death
Home Sweet Home
Happy Accidents, Volume 4
by David Boyne
Postcards from the Dog House
Fast-moving, shape-shifting, sardonic, offbeat personal essays and stories revealing the irony in the ordinary.
In the "who's on first" rapid dialogue of HOW WOULD BUDDHA DRIVE? we explore a mystery Why does a laid-back Zen guy who meditates blissfully every day--get in his car and drive like a maniac?
In the memoir piece, IF I HAD A HAMMER, we ride along with an intense, erratic college student as he pilots a motorcycle through a snowstorm in Maine, on his way to make a life-changing purchase in, of all places, a hardware store. Before we know it, we have passed with him through Manhattan's Alphabet City and East Village, San Francisco's Nob Hill, and come to a stop a dozen years later somewhere on a suburban porch in Portland, Oregon.
In the essay, OWNING UP, we buy a house. Or do we? By the end of a fast montage of reflections on the false-reality of owning stuff we somehow wind up inside the movie, Midnight Cowboy, where we learn what is the only thing we ever truly own.
In the story, BREAKFAST WITH ANNIE, sharing a meal with a foul-mouthed, cantankerous 80-year-old neighbor leads us into bearing witness to the long and lonely decline of an anonymous life.
Then it's off to nibbling stale cheese and guzzling cheap read wine at a literary event. The essay, IN MY OPINION, somehow manages to tie up in a neat little bundle Being a writer, receiving angry emails, drinking organic coffee, and learning how to use an AK-47 assault rifle.
"Like those other two Davids, Dave Barry and David Sedaris, David Boyne analyzes life's minor truths and comes up with the uncomfortable (some might say, absurd) questions that may not topple governments, but do make life richer."
--Ken Callaway, Screenwriter
Home Sweet Home Happy Accidents Book 4 edition by David Boyne Humor Entertainment eBooks
Postcards From the Doghouse is a collection of short essays on a variety of topics from driving to Kindles. The author uses his insight to tie everything together, and you will be entertained from beginning to end.David Boyne is a talented writer. He has just the right balance between poetry and description. His descriptive writing tells the story, and his prose draws you in. This book is a very spiritual and philosophical work.
This is a short book, but I guarantee you will not breeze through it. Each chapter opens with a meaningful quote, and the writing itself is very thought provoking. His musings are about ordinary events, but Boyne's unique perspective really makes you think.
The author knows how to inject humor at just the right moments. He is able to write deeply about every day thoughts and events without sounding silly. Boyne's writing style is very unique, and once you get into the book, I guarantee you will find him enjoyable.
My favorite moment:
I smacked into a metaphorical wall: "Hold on! Is everything I write nothing but my opinion?" A voice, perhaps God's answered, "Like, duh!"
It is very hard to sum up David Boyne's work. You will laugh out loud while reading Postcards From the Dog House, and it will really make you think, too. There is just the right blend of wisdom and humor. Reading this book is definitely an experience. The author really makes you feel as if you are there with him as he relates his experiences and observations. You will be drawn in and not want to put this book down.
Postcards From the Dog House is an enjoyable read, and I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Home Sweet Home Happy Accidents Book 4 edition by David Boyne Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews
My first David Boyne experience and based on this book, not my last! From the very first short story, How Would Buddha Drive? All the way through I found myself smiling and chuckling away as he portrayed normal people in normal life situations.
What I really appreciated was I never felt the author was going out of his way to be funny or even amusing; it is more like just pouring his thoughts out on to paper. Short stories are not normally what I relate to especially well, I prefer the traditional plots and sub plots etc. but this was so very different and a new member of the fan club has been gained.
If you are not familiar with David Boyne or his work, I would strongly recommend reading this - Postcards from the dog house, home sweet home. Wonderful and apparently effortless story telling at its best and I thank my friend for recommending it to me in the first place.
Postcards From the Dog House Home Sweet Home (Happy Accidents)Let me start by saying I think David Boyne does have a future as a writer. Right now he's an average to good writer who knows how to inject humor when it is needed and can write with sense of pongniancy in his essay about Annie and her husband. His love of Annie is apparent and while he tries to keep his feelings from the mix remaining aloof, the walls come down until Annie is no more. That he is a humorist is obvious from his need for the toolbox and the Stanley hammer -- very important to a 21-year-old, moving from college to college. That toolbox was his "Holy Grail", perhaps the key to his idea of maturity and independence and the hammer a big part of it. "Home Sweet Home" is a middling work, or at least I think it is, as it is very good at times and then at others it, a box of cereal would seem more interesting, which is not the Boyne I've heard of and read about. It makes one wonder why every writer seems to feel that somewhere in their career there's a need for an anthology of short stories. To this reviewer, a writer should find his genre or genres and concentrate on them and leave the anthologies to those who are better at it. Boyne is too good a writer and this one, I'm sure, will sell. It's a different work for Boyne. Perhaps he should stay with his strengths. It makes more sense.
"STOP. Pay attention. Slow down. Be mindful. Everything is about the drive and nothing is about the destination."
...words which explain, in a nutshell, why spending hours on end getting lost in a good book, slowly savouring every word, every chapter, rather than rushing straight through to the end, is such a fine experience.
Not that that was David Boyne's intention necessarily when he included the quote in his first essay in a collection of ten tantalising essays (one of which is, ironically, entitled `Books Stink'!) better known as Home Sweet Home Collections from the Doghouse. Nonetheless, for those that love losing themselves in a good book, this one does not disappoint!
Although not a novel (usually my preferred choice of reading material) Boyne's essays are more like short stories, full of little `life truths' like the one above, and written in a style which combines often satirical humour with said gems of wisdom. The good thing about the book is that you can skip from one story to another, without necessarily reading it from front to back, reading whichever title inspires you then and there.
Not having read any such `compilations' before, nor having been familiar with Boyne's work, I wasn't quite sure what to expect at first. However, as the book was recommended by a trusted friend, I decided to take the plunge and must admit, I'm glad I did. I was definitely pleasantly surprised - I found Boyne's style quite refreshing; funny without intentionally trying to be funny, insightful in more ways than one (again, without necessarily even referring to some of the ideas you might take away from his little pearls of wisdom), and just different to the other philosophical, new-age reads on the market.
Suffice to say, I'll definitely be reaching for another Boyne instalment and, luckily for me, as this title is Volume Four of the Happy Accidents series, there's more where it came from. Bring on Volumes 1-3!
Highly recommended but take note; Boyne's style is addictive and will have you craving more!!
Postcards From the Doghouse is a collection of short essays on a variety of topics from driving to s. The author uses his insight to tie everything together, and you will be entertained from beginning to end.
David Boyne is a talented writer. He has just the right balance between poetry and description. His descriptive writing tells the story, and his prose draws you in. This book is a very spiritual and philosophical work.
This is a short book, but I guarantee you will not breeze through it. Each chapter opens with a meaningful quote, and the writing itself is very thought provoking. His musings are about ordinary events, but Boyne's unique perspective really makes you think.
The author knows how to inject humor at just the right moments. He is able to write deeply about every day thoughts and events without sounding silly. Boyne's writing style is very unique, and once you get into the book, I guarantee you will find him enjoyable.
My favorite moment
I smacked into a metaphorical wall "Hold on! Is everything I write nothing but my opinion?" A voice, perhaps God's answered, "Like, duh!"
It is very hard to sum up David Boyne's work. You will laugh out loud while reading Postcards From the Dog House, and it will really make you think, too. There is just the right blend of wisdom and humor. Reading this book is definitely an experience. The author really makes you feel as if you are there with him as he relates his experiences and observations. You will be drawn in and not want to put this book down.
Postcards From the Dog House is an enjoyable read, and I would recommend this book to anyone.
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