{"id":23593,"date":"2018-09-11T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23593"},"modified":"2018-09-10T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:23:59","slug":"book-report-sally-forth-by-greg-howard-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/book-report-sally-forth-by-greg-howard-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Sally Forth<\/i> by Greg Howard (1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/sallyforth.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">It seems I have read these books out of order.  <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/book-report-a-womans-work-is-never-done-by-greg-howard-1988\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>A Woman&#8217;s Work Is Never Done<\/a><\/em>, which I read over a week ago, is a later Sally Forth collection.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01FIZ23VA\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B01FIZ23VA&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=7b64943a8515dbe87ed61f9426084bb0\" target=\"_new\">This book<\/a> appeared a year earlier.  Not that it matters, though; the strips are not particularly serial in nature, and the drawing doesn&#8217;t evolve over time, and new characters haven&#8217;t been added so I&#8217;m dealing with a pre-Asok or post-Asok world (to use Dilbert as an example).<\/p>\n<p>Well, the tropes are all here: The business woman who is the primary housecleaner deals with work and her family.  On the plus side, although they&#8217;re not the main characters, the males in the strip, that is, the husband and the boss, are not merely the butt of jokes, as they have their moments.  So we&#8217;ve got that going for us.<\/p>\n<p>It did not give me a laugh out loud moment like the aforementioned later collection did, and it did give me a moment where I wondered if I&#8217;d already read a particular strip before.  I might have.  Perhaps I should not read the collections so close together.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it&#8217;s the second of the two copies I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/good-book-hunting-april-19-and-21-2018-hooked-on-books-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">this spring<\/a>, so I am fresh out of Sally Forth collections until the October book sales at the earliest.  And I&#8217;ll let them simmer on the to-read shelves for a while to keep the stories fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m done with them, my boys can have at them.  I&#8217;m not sure what they will think of it.  It doesn&#8217;t match their lifestyle, as mom and dad do not work outside the house, and the strips are computer- and device-free.  But they do like to look at the old cartoons since they&#8217;re cartoons.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01FIZ23VA&#038;asins=B01FIZ23VA&#038;linkId=bebb2a17b29c3ca0bc7e847863b45593&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems I have read these books out of order. A Woman&#8217;s Work Is Never Done, which I read over a week ago, is a later Sally Forth collection. This book appeared a year earlier. Not that it matters, though; the strips are not particularly serial in nature, and the drawing doesn&#8217;t evolve over time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23594,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23593\/revisions\/23594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}