Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
I thought that 600+ pages were very unnecessary! Yes, I know that accomplishments such as winning the Reuben Award twice, having bestseller books, being the Grand Marshal in the Rose Parade, among many others aren’t things to sneeze at. But no biography needs to be that long! I found the stories of Charles Schulz’s childhood and as a young adult interesting and sad at the same time. No doubt it was embarrassing to have to get out of the chair with only half of a haircut just to cut the hair of an “important customer.” When it came to him being in high school, let’s just put it this way, if he and I went to high school together, I would’ve cared to talk to him and be his friend. (Unfortunately, we can’t choose what time period we want to be born in.) And of course, the double whammy of being drafted into the military while his mom was dying of cancer had to have felt like a bandage being ripped off! Reading on downward was when I started to find the author’s [David Michaeli