James Love's Reviews > Chasing The Bear

This is one of those books that helps explain how your parents grew up. The elements of time travel come in the form of flashback sequences as Spenser details growing up with no mother and living with three fathers (his father and his mother's two brothers).

The youth of today have never been through an economic depression followed by rationing due to the war effort. This is a great reminder of what my life was like growing up in the 1970's. My parents were born in the early 1940's and knew what hard times were like. Often kids and their parents (usually the father) took them out hunting for meat as the supermarket was a rare commodity in small town America. And trust in a full larder usually meant stocking up items for long periods of time before going back to larger towns like Terre Haute to buy supermarket goods in bulk.

Education was obtained in small schools with limited library resources that were often shared among all citizens of the community. The majority of advancements came in the 1990's and "smart" phones, laptop computers and tablets would not see accessible development until the early 2000's. Yes, life was rough when text messaging involved writing out the whole message on a piece of paper and hoping it could be passed hand to hand to its intended recipient without being intercepted by a nosey teacher who then violated the students privacy by having the note read to everyone in the class.

Suck it up, you millennial snowflakes because you've got it way to easy.

[(Whining little &!+@#3$) sotto voce].