Creature Features

Publisher High Peaks Publishing, November 16, 2012
Category: Non-Fiction, Animals, Humor Essays
Tour Dates: February, 2013
Available in: Print and ebook, 160 pages

Book Review by Rebecca Camarena

Pets are a source of amusement and laughter and it warms our hearts when we get to share their stories.  I was pleasantly surprised that Rowland’s animals stories are so recognizable; most of them sounded similar to mine at this blog. Except, whereas my stories come from living life in the Concrete Jungle, Rowland has a farm with more barnyard animals than I could ever think of caring for or afford; goats, chickens, cows, horses and dogs and cats.

Creature Features is a delightful book of 75 essays from Rowland’s newspaper column.  It  is laugh out loud funny; from the simple chores that turn into “major feats of engineering,” to the birthing  of animals not going according to the “birth scheduling,” to “now that we know that, what do we do?”  You can enjoy reading the book in one sitting or read them multiple times and the essays never seem to go stale.  Rowland captures the innocence and curiosity of his farm animals and displays such patience in learning to deal with each animal’s personality; “all dogs bite, all horses kick.”

If you are an animal lover, farmer, animal activist and no matter how animals fit into your life, I highly recommend Creature Features for an enjoyable read.  Just remember that you might find yourself laughing out loud.

Happy Reading!

Join us tomorrow for the Creature Features Giveaway.

About Tim Rowland and Creature Features

Tim Rowland with his dogs

Tim is an award-winning columnist at Herald-Mail Media in Hagerstown, Maryland. He and his wife Beth decided to add animals to their life and soon found they had an assortment of farm animals. Tim used those daily experiences with the animals for his newspaper column and from the column came CREATURE FEATURES, his second book of animal essays.

CREATURE FEATURES contains more than 75 warm and funny essays, from the introduction to the farm of bovines Cleopatra and Heifertiti, the Belted Galloway beauties, to the further antics of Hannah the English Bulldog and Juliet the tiny Siamese, along with assorted donkeys, pigs, goats, horses, chickens, geese-and of course, more of the joyful bouvier des Flandres named Opie-that’s sure to provide loads of smiles and even outright guffaws.

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