First Review of My New Book

You know how sometimes you should be writing, because you’re supposedly a writer, but instead you’re just sort of pretending that you’re writing, in that yes, you are sitting at your computer and typing, but what you’re really doing is surfing the web and Soogling? (Self Googling. See what I did there? Soogling. Do itashimashite). So yes, I was Soogling, or more precisely, Toogling (Title Googling. Bu ke qi), and low and behold I came across what I believe to be the very first review of my new novel, Sons of the 613.

The review comes courtesy of an anonymous teenager (I’m guessing about the teenager part, but I think you’ll agree that I’m probably correct) and is posted on some subpage of the website for the Duxbury Free Library Program in Duxbury, MA. I will excerpt it here in its entirety, misspelling of my name and all:

Sons of the 613 by Michael Rubins

I read this as a galley book. It’s gonna be published in Sept. 2012. It’s about this kid named Isaac who is getting ready for his bar mitzvah, but his parents leave for Italy and make his older brother, Josh, in charge of the household. Josh is mad macho and believes Isaac has to become a man not so much through memorizing the Torah as doing all sorts of crazy challenges. Hilarity and bizarre situations come next….. It’s not really appropriate for a middle school read, but it’s pretty hilarious in a blitzed out way….

I have to say, that’s a pretty even-handed, fair and accurate review, and I’ll be lucky if the rest of them are so kind. Thank you, anonymous (probably) teenager.

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