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Book 173🎧 4⭐️

Another hilarious story by Dave Barry. Filled with gold, gun and a Mellon Monster!😂

Finally getting my kids back to the library after paying an astounding $140 in library fees from 2021 😬

Hilarious.
An action packed story about The Everglades Melon Monster, reality TV, social media, lost treasure, Rednecks, the Russian Mob, bad relationships, the decline of journalism & more.

A few of the side plots weren‘t as fleshed out, but it was very amusing.

At the beginning of this book there is a scene where one of the characters is asked to hold a piñata while the birthday girl wildly swings a golf club. It goes how you‘d expect.

I actually saw almost this same thing happen but thankfully it was not a golf club ?

Full Review/Recipe Match: https://bakingthroughbookclub.com/2023/06/04/melon-monsters-money-and-mayhem/

Swap Story is the embodiment of Mulder‘s famous poster from the X-Files: I WANT to believe. If you are looking for a light summer read that will make you laugh, Swamp Story is a solid choice. It‘s also a perfect suggestion for people who are occasional readers who just want something to entertain them on vacation.

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Curl up with this and escape into the ultimate Floridian adventure, where you‘ll encounter pythons, alligators, melon monsters, TikTokers, an emotional support boar, buried treasure, mobsters, sleazy politicians, and more… and somehow it all comes together perfectly and hilariously! It‘s wild but well-crafted; a shot of pure fun. Can this please be a movie? 🐊

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On the back of this book I received recently, it was blurbed by Steve Martin. He says this book is funny but he also says he hasn‘t read it yet but he loves it. I‘m so confused. Has he read the book or not? I want to read this book and give it a chance. I‘m just not sure if I‘m going to like it because of the humor and I don‘t know if I‘m going to understand the humor because it‘s set in Florida and I don‘t live in Florida. I live in Texas.

I‘m sharing this book I received in the mail today. This is from Simon & Schuster. This book sounds interesting. I‘m looking forward to reading it. This book went on sale May 2, 2023.

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I feel I can count on Barry to be wild, wacky, and funny, and he certainly didn‘t let me down with his latest novel. Some craziness in the Everglades with a little skewering of social media thrown in to boot. I loved it!

On the one hand, I‘m thankful for this book because I devoured it in one day and it got me out of my reading slump.

On the other hand, I‘ve forgotten most of the plot. And what I remember of the plot is meh. The dialogue and a handful of the characters were fun- but the rest of it is… the rest of it.

I do give Barry a nod for tying up loose ends and the dialogue in particular. Everything ended in a tidy little bow 👍

This novel was funny, violent, and so wonderfully bizarre. Loved the humor. When a plot comes crashing together with such a cast of crazy characters, you can't put it down.

This is a bonkers novel - absurd and delightful. It has a slow start, but once the shenanigans begin, this becomes a laugh-out-loud riot of a book. There are multiple stories that all converge in one section of the Everglades, with characters and plot tripping all over each other. Barry delivers a quintessential Florida tall tale, complete with gators, pythons, buried treasure, and so much more, and I am here for it all!

This was fun. You get many character viewpoints, and the book is very plot heavy. The plot is absurd in a believable way. There are good people and bad people and people in between. An easy, funny read.

I thought this was going to be my 1st Dave Barry, but discovered on Goodreads that I read the 1st book in his Peter and the Starcatchers series. This will be my 1st adult book by him.

Aardvark finally got me. I‘ve resisted all of their selections so far, but it‘s my birthday this month and I grew up in Florida and Dave Barry makes me belly laugh. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🎶Happy (very early) Birthday to me🎶

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