“Going Bovine”

April 8, 2010 at 1:21 pm | Posted in Fiction, Young Adult Fiction | 5 Comments

Our latest Family Reading Hour book, Going Bovine by Libba Bray, was  one of our best choices ever.  I’m pleased to tell you that you don’t have to have a teenager at home to give you an excuse to read it, either.

Sweetie Junior remarked early on that “that’s exactly like my high school.”  My man Rocket Scientist, who occasionally has trouble tolerating books that appeal to a 15-year-old girl, instead kept shushing conversational tangents so we could get back to the story.  I had to do all the reading because there are frequent F-bombs (which SJ simply will not read aloud), and there turned out to be a couple of “adult scenes” that would have had her digging her own grave out of embarrassment.  Reading aloud to your family is of an entirely different order than reading to yourself.

This is a really plot-based book.  I’ll describe it as a silly yet touching fantasy road trip that should appeal to everyone who liked Pee Wee’s Great Adventure.