Subpar Parks by Amber Share (Plume Publishing, USA)
Social media is often seen as a negative place but just occasionally there are real pockets of joy. Subpar Parks is one of the latter. Talented artist Share takes one star reviews of America's wonderful National Parks and illustrates them in a style very reminiscent of the traditional Parks publicity.
On social media the reviews and images are presented without comment but in this book Share has added details about the park, extra images and even tips from park rangers.
Some of the reviews are crazy - dismissing the Grand Canyon as 'just a hole' for instance, but the book never feels cruel just a delight and one when I am missing travel more than usual I shall dip into (and also use to help plan future trips - but shhh! don't tell Mr Norfolkbookworm that)
You can find more pictures and reviews on Instagram by searching for @subparparks
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