A review by iffer
Callahan and Company: The Compleat Chronicles of the Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson

5.0

On my crotchety normal book rating scale, this would be 4.5 stars, but I loved listening to this book. Like the patrons of the fictional pub Callahan's Place, it seems like I found this book exactly when I needed it. At times the stories are sentimental, but the true stinker puns contained in them, oddly enough, give this collection the quirkiness and comic relief to temper the sentimentality and what might otherwise feel cliché. One of the reasons Spider Robinson's Callahan Chronicles have aged so well is that the stories are about humanity. Five stars, because the Callahan Chronicles left me with the feels wishing that every town has a Callahan's, where shared pain is lessened, joy multiplied, and empathy, compassion, and laughter can solve any problem, even impending armageddon.