Title: Notes from the Porch
Author: Thomas Christopher Greene
Publisher: Rootstock Publishing
Pages: 28
My GoodReads Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Notes
from the Porch consists of vignettes that the author shared on social media
during the pandemic. Apparently, he received a great response to them back
then, hence this book.
The
tagline is Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World. I think
that part was too ambitious a title.
I didn’t
think much of the first vignette, but gradually I began to warm towards them.
Some
were cute but most were forgettable. A few touched my heart. Neighborhood Boy,
all six vignettes of it, was adorable. It presented an image of the innocent
childhood of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
The book
needed to be proofread better. Purest is spelt as purist. Also, what’s a
gauntlet of waiters supposed to be?
My
favourites were Cinderella; On Baseball; Magic; The Ghost in You; Quarantine;
Romance Is a Gentleman, and Neglected Gardens #2.
Number 43, Our Girl Jane, threw it out of the ballpark. The story of baby Jane and her response to her Dad’s reading of the story broke my heart with the quote, The sentience of it, how much more a baby knows than we think they should.
