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RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN – JIM MCCANN, JANET LEE

Return of the Dapper MenReturn of the Dapper Men by Jim McCann, Janet Lee
My rating: 3/5 cats
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oh, great—one more thing that tim gunn is better at than me. tim gunn is unflappable and positive and patient and adorable and stylish, and apparently, quite good with anagrams.

he wrote the introduction to this book, which he likens to the works of lewis carroll, and says that to get the full experience out of this book, it would help to have a dictionary and some anagramming skills at the ready.

i read this seated on the floor behind someone’s bike in the basement hallway of my workplace while in the office behind me, what sounded like enormous and unruly men discussed the vicissitudes of their lives and whatnot, punctuated with a lot of grown-up language. so maybe i was not reading this under the best of circumstances, but i thought i was a pretty good anagrammer before this moment. i didn’t see any anagrams. i missed any subtext. i was reduced to appreciating this book for its artwork alone, which is worth five stars cats at the very least, especially when you read the afterword which is all about her decoupage technique. it is very impressive. (i bet tim gunn is good at decoupage, as well)

the story is fine, but i assume it becomes superfine when you are someone much more clever than i. (someone, perhaps, who encourages others to “make it work”)

for me, i will just clap my hands and laugh goofily and say “look at the purty pitchers!!!” and call it a day.

tell me about the anagrams, tim...

drooooooool………..

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