Booknote: Please Don't Grab My P#$$y

Julia Young, et.al., Please Don't Grab My P#$$y: a Presidential Guide. Chicago: Animal Media Group, 2018. ISBN: 9781947895027. 

Genre: poetry
Subgenre: humor, politics, political humor
Format: e-galley
Source: NetGalley

President Trump is notorious for grabbing pussy (by his own admission by the way). So in order to remind him that grabbing women's privates without their consent is not welcomed, the author wrote a series of poems to remind him not to do that and suggesting other things he may want to grab instead.

The book features a series of poems accompanied by oil paintings. Each poem gets a painting. The poems are all four lines long, and they usually feature an ABCB rhyme scheme (i.e. the second and fourth lines usually rhyme) with the fourth line containing a variant/synonym/euphemism/alternative name for pussy. The amusing part of the book is seeing how many different terms for pussy the author can present. At the same time, the gimmick does wear thin after a while. Some of the rhymes are quite forced, and some of the terms may seem a bit of a stretch. So the book starts strong but it loses steam as you keep on reading. I also need to note that a term or two can be a bit crass, so keep that in mind as you read.

The art is nice. It is not great, but it does complement the poems well enough. Basically the art depicts a scene that may be conjured in the poem.

Overall, an amusing book, but no big deal. I liked it, but readers' mileage may vary. This is definitely a book to borrow if you can as it is one of those gimmick books you read then move on.

3 out of 5 stars.