Outside of a Dog: Kate Nepveu's Book Log

[originally part of an audiobook roundup post, which is where the comments all are, and split into five parts for MT import; use the previous and next links]

The other new thing, also from the library, was Carl Hiaasen's Hoot, read by Chad Lowe. Hoot is my first Hiaasen, and probably my last unless he writes another YA, as Chad tells me that his adult novels tend to have bloody and unpleasant endings for the bad guys. This was both well-read and well-written; it was the one that tempted me to drive around the block to keep listening. Chad's summed up the premise of this in his own book log entry (of the print version), so I'll just say that I liked the oddities of the characters and the way that they mostly stayed odd, and also that Roy (our point-of-view character) actually had a good relationship with his parents. It's nice to see that the absent adult is no longer a necessary characteristic of the YA genre.