BOOKLOVER - "I felt I got to know Tim Bazzett ... He had tales galore, told in a conversational voice ... funny ones about children, animal behavior , deafness, even the bickering in older marriages ... Some of the stories are very moving ... [with] serious insights about father-son relationships, male friendships, the connectedness of human beings through reading and friends, the impossibility of communication during crises and the importance of friendship when we are older ... Readers will have much to relate to."