Reviews for Limericks, lay and clerical

The average rating for Limericks, lay and clerical based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-17 00:00:00 Joann Baker I received this as a birthday present, because I'm a DVD fan and very much enjoy weird gifts. Mission accomplished: it is one of the strangest things I've read in a long time. The best way I can think to describe it is as follows. Picture a relatively sour grandparent. Male or female, doesn't matter. You find this on their bookshelf. They see you flipping through it and say, still not even smiling, "Boy oh boy, that little book always gave me a good chuckle."

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-09 00:00:00 John Smith I am always interested in books about how Canadians and Americans are different, so I felt like I should throw this one in there, even though it is pretty old and out of date at this point. I found it a year ago on a shelf at a lake house that I rented with some friends (in America). I flipped through it and decided to get it at the library to finish it up. It was written in the 80s, and a puzzlingly large chunk of it is about American investment in Canadian companies and vice versa. With lots of really specific detail about corporate takeovers and stuff. It was a very long, boring chapter...and it is all completely irrelevant now because NAFTA didn't arrive until the 90s. I didn't exactly read that one word for word. I liked the other chapters better. I enjoyed the little biographical vignettes, and I liked the author's reminiscences about his childhood and his family in Ontario. He is a little too fascinated by the far north, I think, which works against some parts of Canada. He must have made at least a half dozen trips to the Yukon and other extreme northern places, so they come up a lot, while the Maritimes are almost completely absent. It seems like he's maybe never been there. I think if you are going to write a book about "The Canadians" you kind of have to at least make an appearance in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. At least for a sense of completeness. And honestly, Quebec wasn't in there much either. The Yukon came up more than Quebec. It was like the guy decided to write a whole book about what Canadians are like, but without interviewing anyone beyond people he had already met. Mainly what I was thinking while reading this was that someone else needs to write a book like this now, because so much has changed. The 80s doesn't seem that far away, but 30 years is a long time.