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A review by meleaglestone
Adventures with the Wife in Space: Living with Doctor Who by Neil Perryman
5.0
Okay so to be honest from the offset I actually know Sue and have come across Neil during my time at Sunderland University. I've known about this book for sometime and have come to know Sue as firstly a teacher and then colleague.
I doubt I'll be giving this book a very polished review because a) it's been a very long time since I poised pen over paper (or thumb over keypad in this case) to craft any sort of review of anything and b) I'm completely biased towards the author and its subject.
I purchased this last year and it's been sitting on my bookshelf ever since just begging me to have the spare moment to read it and finally this afternoon, I did such that. Actually I picked up the book at around 1pm and didn't put it down until I finished the back cover at nearly 3 o'clock.
What I found was an endearing account of one man's experience of Doctor Who from his early childhood, right up until adulthood. Not only has the author written a very light-hearted and completely amusing mini-memoir of his life so far but he's also spoken with such clarity of his wife on the page whilst exploring their experiment.
If you haven't done your research about their blog then I forgive you for being confused and as for the recent passage I read of a reviewer just not getting the whole style of the book... Well just take a step back and accept the book for what it is.
Did I feel enlightened and did the book change my life? Well not really, it was just lovely trip down memory lane for me hearing first hand some of the things I've experienced whilst at Sunderland and knowing these people. Did it make me laugh and did I happily lose a good portion of my afternoon to an easy read? Hell yes. I did learn a thing or two but really I very happily fell into the world of funny comments and phrases that really just cheered me up.
Basically this book is a beautiful companion piece to the blog and a glimpse into how two people have experienced the oddities of achieving some internet fame within their lives.
If you like Doctor Who and want a funny little read about the older series then the blog and this book is for you!
I doubt I'll be giving this book a very polished review because a) it's been a very long time since I poised pen over paper (or thumb over keypad in this case) to craft any sort of review of anything and b) I'm completely biased towards the author and its subject.
I purchased this last year and it's been sitting on my bookshelf ever since just begging me to have the spare moment to read it and finally this afternoon, I did such that. Actually I picked up the book at around 1pm and didn't put it down until I finished the back cover at nearly 3 o'clock.
What I found was an endearing account of one man's experience of Doctor Who from his early childhood, right up until adulthood. Not only has the author written a very light-hearted and completely amusing mini-memoir of his life so far but he's also spoken with such clarity of his wife on the page whilst exploring their experiment.
If you haven't done your research about their blog then I forgive you for being confused and as for the recent passage I read of a reviewer just not getting the whole style of the book... Well just take a step back and accept the book for what it is.
Did I feel enlightened and did the book change my life? Well not really, it was just lovely trip down memory lane for me hearing first hand some of the things I've experienced whilst at Sunderland and knowing these people. Did it make me laugh and did I happily lose a good portion of my afternoon to an easy read? Hell yes. I did learn a thing or two but really I very happily fell into the world of funny comments and phrases that really just cheered me up.
Basically this book is a beautiful companion piece to the blog and a glimpse into how two people have experienced the oddities of achieving some internet fame within their lives.
If you like Doctor Who and want a funny little read about the older series then the blog and this book is for you!