A Gentleman's Guide to Toasting

Rating:
Summary: High and Dry
Review: The Gentleman's Guide to Toasting, while light-hearted and well-written, doesn't deliver the valuable instruction that one might expect from its title. The "Guide" is more of a loose set of otherwise obvious info: be creative, be witty, be brief...

In any case, the "Guide" part of the book is only 4.5 pages long. The majority of the book's volume is dedicated to a list of example toasts, divided by occasion, which are more poems and quotes than they are toasts.

These shortcomings aside, the main reason for the low rating is that this book's pages are littered with advertisements for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, which (in my humble opinion) have little bearing on the act of toasting.

The illustrations are cute and the writing is clever, but I find myself disappointed overall.