About Me

I'm the school librarian at G.S. Lakie Middle School. As you can see - me, reading and comfy chairs go way back. I still enjoy Asterix and many other graphic novels. My main reason for blogging is for reviewing books for the students and anyone else that might be interested in YA literature.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Chomp

Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

(reviewed from netgalley copy)
What if you took a Bear Grylls wanna-be and threw him into a crazy cast of characters, gave him an enormous budget to create an over-the-top surviorman style show and set the first production in the Florida Everglades. Well, you'll end up with a story like Chomp. Your imagination can create all sorts of scenarios, I'm sure, but can they compete with master of the quirky characters' that Carl Hiassen creates?
In keeping with his familiar style Hiassen gives us a great environmental caper filled with quirky characters both human and animal, and it will make you question how much to believe really happens on some of those 'survive in the wild' type of shows and how much is staged.

Here's the book trailer.

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