Boo: the Life of the World's Cutest Dog

This book is a compilation of content from a facebook page ran by J. H. Lee about their dog, a weird shaven pomeranian called Boo, who is, in that bizarrely specific way that only freakish-looking-cutish animals can be, famous on the internet. You can probably imagine what kind of book it is. Photos of the dog with poorly-formatted but neat captions in Comic Sans saying things like "Hi. My name is Boo. This is my life." and "Sometimes I sit in things. [photo of Boo wedged lopsidely and adorably in a dog-basket] But I don't always fit!" My friend Charlotte gave me this as a birthday present because she knows me well enough to know that, in the right moment, I find things like this side-splittingly hilarious. She was right. It's a deplorably needless book. The dog isn't even that cute, it's so weird-looking, and the captions are so bland, so twee, so downright moist, that I can't quite imagine who in their right mind would deliberately buy something like this. I mean, literally all the content is available on the dog's facebook page anyway, who on earth would spend real money on a hardback book with close-to-a-hundred pages of pictures of this chickpea-headed tiny-faced probably-lobotomised little inbred canine? Unless you're buying it as an event. Not for the content or to hold in any memorable regard whatsoever, but for the experience of showing it to a friend, to know that they'll find it as disarmingly odd like it deserves to be responded to as such, to laugh together at that oddness. I don't know why I'm doing a post about it really, I guess I've not been reading much lately (having started my MA there's a lot of chapters and articles that I have to read academically instead of full books for leisure or interest), sorry, but this thing is technically a book, and a ridiculous one at that - this is not something I could ever envisage a sane person buying to read. But let me restate that it was a brilliant present. All the best presents are, to greater or lesser extents, more about the implications of the giving than about the gift itself, and shared laughter at a weird dumb dog is great and was the gist of this. So, thanks Charlotte - and to any readers who find stuff like Boo funny, please buy this book as a jokepresent for your weirdest friend.