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News & ArtsSaturday, August 18, 2012
Books Adventure Time
Posted by Paul Constant on Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:28 AM
I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books as much as the next kid, but the thing that always bothered me about them is there was never an option for my character to stay in bed all day and watch TV while feeling bad about himself. Or to just start punching everybody in the room, friend and foe alike. Or to grab the cowboy ghost and start dancing with him, rather than running away down the green hallway (turn to page 46) or pulling the rope attached to the bucket of red paint on the wall to the left (turn to page 8). The binary choice always irritated me, because the choices always had to do with actions and never feelings.
It wasn't until I read local poet Sierra Nelson's I Take Back the Sponge Cake (Rose Metal Press, $14.95) that I realized there was an elegant solution to my problem...
(Keep reading.)
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