It was all an accident. I heard about books being sold in Expressions and I went there just to see if there are good stuff. Turn out, I fell for Expressions’ marketing scheme. My mind went like: “How come you’re not buying a book? It’s only P99 for two books!”. So, I picked up two books and went home to read and laugh.
I read Inflating a Dog without any knowledge of the Peter Leroy series. Inflating a Dog, by the way, is part of the 13-part series of Peter Leroy. I don’t even know Eric Kraft existed before I read it. Forgive the ignorance.
Inflating a Dog is not one of those big stories and nothing big ever happened to the book. But it was funny in an honest, new way of telling stories. You will be loaded of what blow, blow up, inflate, blown up and blowjob means. Slang is the name of the game.
What must have really hit me was Ella’s persistence and her I-can-do-this-and never-give-up attitude towards life. Ella, Peter’s mother, was that one character of the book that I kept applauding from start to finish. Ella did not simply want to be a mother and a wife; she wanted to be a woman of her own. Peter’s sweet and unaffected ways works like an air freshener in a stiff world as the book suggests.
The book’s ending isn’t even your usual “everyone should be happy” ending. It was an honest, feel-good, learn-from-life kind of ending which is both touching and encouraging.
The book has a lot that makes you laugh. Peter’s silliness and Ella’s impulsive nature brings a lot of laughs into the book. And for one, Inflating a Dog even teach the science of keeping a boat from sinking.
Inflating a Dog is a light read. It is sensible and reflective. Get inflated too, read it.
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