Sunday, December 9, 2012

A Porch Sofa Almanac


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A Porch Sofa Almanac

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For Peter Smith, the assignment from Minnesota Public Radio was simple: try to do something about Minnesota. So he began exploring the simple, everyday Minnesota things he came across and sharing them with listeners each Tuesday morning. The result is a hilarious, often wry, and always remarkable portrait of everyday life in the Land of 10,000 Lakes that will resonate with Minnesotans from the state's biggest cities to its smallest towns.

A Porch Sofa Almanac is the first collection of Smith's essays for MPR-stories that keep close to the ground and reflect on the common experiences of being a Minnesotan. Small-town football, stacks of Hudson Bay blankets in an antique store, ice fishing, and even those soggy gloves that emerge from melting snowbanks each spring. Following the calendar year, Smith's reflections are the perfect season-by-season companion for that chair by the fireplace, a bench by the campfire, a seat on the bus or train-or, of course, a porch sofa.

A Porch Sofa Almanac ultimately casts Minnesota in a wholly unique light. As Smith writes, "The entire state comes across as some wonderful, slightly quirky treasure unearthed at a church basement rummage sale." Much loved-perhaps a little rough around the edges-and absolutely ready to be shared.




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    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Minnesota Humorist, December 6, 2010
    This review is from: A Porch Sofa Almanac (Paperback)
    For anyone who hasn't heard him on Minnesota Public Radio - or even if you have - Pete Smith is a terrific essayist and humorist who mines the subtleties (and even the not so subtle aspects) of what it means to live in Minnesota and among
    Minnesotans.

    Smith's voice as a writer is warm, clear and often times hilarious. I would recommend this book to anyone - but particularly to those who have lived in Minnesota.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars just the right book for that time-out-of-time, September 19, 2011
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    This review is from: A Porch Sofa Almanac (Paperback)
    While I didn't hear Peter Smith's stories on Minnesota Public Radio, a friend recommended his collection of essays. So I carried it on a flight and couldn't put it down. Honestly, I passed up the in-flight movie just to stay with this guy and groove in the flow of his humor. After the flight, a woman to my right asked me what a "porch sofa" was. I laughed out loud, and she said with a giggle, "that's what I thought!" She really got it - the stories are laughter therapy in cellulose. Hauling an old sofa out onto the porch is just the beginning - the antics and characters that Smith describes give this easterner reason to think that Minnesota still has independent politics. Eager to read his next book.
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