Blurb

by Ravi Mangla

"Of all the bird books I’ve read, this is honestly the best bird book of the lot. I’ve learned so much about birds. This book is very good."

ebook

First published July 23, 2012

About the author

Ravi Mangla is the author of the novels The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) and Understudies (Outpost19, 2013). His writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, Cincinnati Review, Paris Review Daily, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY.

Reviews

[Ravi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm biased.

[Kristine Muslim · Rating 4 out of 5]

oh, the charms of a strange little clean-cut book touting about blurbing bird manuals and stuff then going far beyond that...

[Xian Xian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious and odd. It's like watching one of those hilariously bad commercials on TV or those messed up parodies or twisted comedy movies.

[Eric T. Voigt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Make this five times longer and you've got yourself my favorite book EVER. But it's a delicious taste, as it stands. Laughing at work while on break is the best way to get nosey questions thrown at you, so you save it up for very special occasions, and the reading of this was a birthday of an occasion. I laughed a lot. The last story, the ransom story, really left me upset there weren't another 40 stories coming my way, because what a story to end on. There is no reason for you to not read this collection, all of you out there. It's short and free and you'll laugh if you have a soul.

[Gabriel]

From "A Note on the Type": "This book was set in Mobius, a typeface designed by typographer, lithographer, kitemaker, and philosopher Jerome Gabriel Mathieu (1581-1634). It is classified retrospectively as a neo-transitional serif. . . . Mobius is the keystone typeface in the paranormal romance genre." Need I say more?

[Peacegal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cool and clever collection of flash fiction. I especially liked the proposals for new TV shows created by an exec who had just been dumped.