Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
by Kitty Burns Florey
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Author: Kitty Burns FloreyEdition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-11-05
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Harvest Books
Book Reviews of Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
Book Review: Much more Memoir than Primer
Summary: 3 Stars
Ms. Florey has written a very light but moderately charming little book recalling her youth, misspent diagramming sentences in her local parochial school. I heard a review of "Sister Bernadette" on NPR in which the reader-reviewer made it sound interesting but, sadly, I did not find it particularly so. In reading Ms. Florey's work, I frequently found myself imagining her as a sixth grader and remembering girls in my own sixth grade class who were neurotically concerned with keep their work neat and precise and I realized that had I known Ms. Florey I would have found her just as boring and annoying as I found them.
I knew from having read the reviews on this Amazon site that Ms. Florey's book was not going to impart any real or useful understanding of sentence diagramming and indeed it did not. If anything, I came away even more mystified than ever.
The author admits diagramming is irrelevant. So, really, is this book. I gave it three stars because I really did enjoy Ms. Florey's insightful and humorous discussion of Gertrude Stein. I also appreciated the interesting bits of trivia and arcana.
I use three basic questions or criteria to determine the artistic value of a thing: What was the author/director/composer trying to accomplish? Did she/he succeed? Was the book/movie/music worth doing? I suppose Ms. Florey was interested in writing a little book about happier childhood moments and a world which exists no longer using the lost art of sentence diagramming as a framework for her memories and musings. And yes, she has succeeded in dragging us down memory lane and I could almost hear the chalk on the blackboard so I would say her evocation was successful. But was this book worth writing? Not really.
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