A review by sharonfalduto
Busy Monsters by William Giraldi

The protagonist, a memoirist named Charlie, has a girlfriend who dumps him to go off in search of the mythical giant squid. He spends the book attempting to win her back by searching for Bigfoot, UFOs, and other oddball things. The writer slips into overwrought flowery language whenever the character is writing a chapter for his memoir (not that this is overtly noted) which was hovered between a clever idea and kind of annoying, for me.