Potentially Serious Side Effect Seen in Readers of New Memoir
Yves Gionet reading his wife’s copy of Adventures in the Radio Trade, which he is alleged to have swiped from her
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Potentially Serious Side Effect Seen in Readers of New Memoir
Publisher Donovan Street Press Inc., one of Canada’s smallest and least profitable publishers, has reported that consumption of one of its books, a memoir about CBC Radio entitled Adventures in the Radio Trade by former recording engineer Joe Mahoney, may cause serious side effects.
The little-known publisher advises extreme caution before picking up and reading this memoir, which, although touted by some as “a delightful look behind the scenes at CBC Radio” and by others as “fun and easy to read” and by yet others as “tender and flavorful, faintly redolent of bananas and coffee” (wait, scratch that, wrong review), it could potentially cause serious personality changes.
“I never hear Yves laugh out loud but he does with your book,” reports one reader’s wife, Linda. “And comes and reads out passages to me and leaves giggling!”
Worse, although Linda ordered the book for her own personal use, her husband Yves, heretofore an upstanding and well-respected businessman, allegedly swiped the book from her before she could read even a single word of it.
Despite these alarming side-effects, there has been no talk of a recall.
“By all means continue to purchase and read Adventures in the Radio Trade,” says a spokesman for the company, coincidentally also named Joe Mahoney, the same as the author. “But maybe read it in small doses. We understand that it can be hard to put down but we recommend no more than eighteen, nineteen chapters at a time. And if you find yourself unusually informed or entertained, not an uncommon experience with this book, just lay it down for a bit until you recover.”
“Under no circumstances lie the book down,” Mahoney adds. “That would just be wrong.”
He advises couples concerned about potential marital problems to purchase their own separate copies. “Buying multiple copies of one of our books isn’t going to break the bank,” he suggests. “Not only might doing so save your marriage, it would really help my bank account.”
