Welcome to John Breneman’s Book Blurbs, a new genre of book review hailed as “wildly subpar” by Triple Action News.
The “mini reviews” found here are mini not only in the sense that they are short, but also in the sense that it’s likely I have “skimmed” the available PR materials rather than actually “read” the literary masterpiece in question. (* I reserve the right to read select manuscripts.) A few will be touched by my actual human hands but most will be “digital,” which of course means “never to be touched by human digits.”
In addition to offbeat blurbs about actual print and digital books, we are also proud to be the nation’s leading supplier of “fake” book titles and covers, often inspired by such ridiculous puns as “Uncle Tom’s Condo” and “Charlotte’s Worldwide Web.”
And as a courtesy to our readers, we also provide a generous and growing selection of “fake” reviews of “real” novels. (“The Catcher in the Rye,” America’s best-loved baseball book?)
Book Blurbs editor John Breneman is the author of “Downsized! How I Got Laid Off After 30 Years in Newspapers and Turned My Funniest Sunday Advice Columns Into a Blockbuster E-book.” For a limited time only, contact us through Twitter: @MrBreneman.