Review of Sip Lake

[Barmac]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Sip Lake" by joseph basara.]

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3 out of 5 stars

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My review of Sip Lake by Joseph Basara. When I first started reading this book, I honestly thought I would not manage to get through to the end of it. I kept picking it up and had to go back a few pages to remember what had happened. I think my main problem was the many characters and remembering their names. I did end up getting them mixed up.

Once I got going with the book, I started to enjoy it a little bit more and would occasionally laugh out loud at some of his quips like ‘If I were to meet Tina in the rye, my aftershave would have to be so potent that her nose would overrule her eye, because when a man’s nose looks like a second pair of eyes, you don’t attract kisses from many girls and that’s no lie’, who he has a crush on.
Owen, a 27-year-old man the main character moved to Sip Lake after an invitation from a friend and we are soon thrown into 1970’s nostalgia, remembering Debbie Boone on the radio, “You—light up my life. You give me hope, to carry on…”

He is keen to find love and it was interesting to see how this developed. He moves from one woman to another until he manages to find one with a lovely heart.

Other bits, like when he is walking out of the dining room and hears it raining and pouring but then realizes it is an old man snoring were a tad boring (sorry, I did not mean for that to rhyme).
I cannot remember the last time I read a book written in the first-person, but it has that personal touch on how his one-room cottage looked like to his working day as an orderly at the local hospital.
It is a very interesting story, and the author does have quite a wild imagination ‘My sore spine reminded me of my own mortality and I imagined old man Cloud, fifty years from now, embarrassed to have to ask the orderly that he needed to be wiped’ but sometimes his long accounts of everything he hears around him can get a bit tiresome.

I am afraid it was not a book which made me excited to see the next one he may write but one I have chatted about a bit since I finished reading it.

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Sip Lake
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