By Patrice Kindl.
Greatly entertaining. I laughed almost the whole way through this. Owl Tycho, our narrator, is a young high school girl who is infatuated with her science teacher. The difference is, she perches on a branch outside his house at night... as an owl. She blithely says ridiculous things. She is very quiet, but perhaps not quite as serious as her demeanor suggests: "You may think I have been blind or foolish about some of the events that have taken place within these pages, but I am not that big a fool."
Fairly short, but comic gold. Read it on a rainy day? Or maybe a train or bus ride, if you feel like explaining to the other passengers why you're laughing so hard.
3 comments:
Thanks for the tip. I'll read it, God willing.
Actually, I read Goose Chase, by the same author, by mistake (if there is such a thing). It was a good, humorous read, and not too long. Thanks for putting me on to Kindl.
I did read Goose Chase, but didn't think it was as funny as Owl in Love or The Woman in the Wall. Maybe I was too much influenced by Owl's humor to take Goose Chase as its own work; you have a fresh perspective, reading it first.
Goose Chase is actually how I found Kindl: it came up when I was searching for the Orphan's Tales in the library catalog. I thought it looked interesting but it was checked out, so I got Owl in Love instead, and here we are.
I also read Lost in the Labyrinth, which is a (serious, but still YA) retelling of the Minotaur myth. It was pretty well done, but definitely not as light-hearted as her other books.
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