Topic

Comedy

A collection of 7 issues

'25 July - theme: Book In Translation

The Little Old Lady Who Broke all the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg So maybe if I had read this before the 100 year old man who jumps out of a window, the pilgrimage of Harold Fry or a man named Ove, I would have been more impressed. It was fun

'25 March - theme: Memoir March (Alex suggests - a bubble wrap celebrity)

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling This appeared in our book box a few weeks ago and looked like the perfect candidate for a "bubble wrap celebrity". I approached with caution and was pleasantly surprised to find this book really, really funny.

Additional Review A - British Quiz-show host and comedian becomes a novelist?

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman After having so much fun completing my monthly reading challenge last year, I embarked on some other challenges this year. Namely to visit every library my Wake County Library Card gives me access to. This challenge saw me driving to the other side of

Additional Review 6

Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich 30! Yes, she has written and I have read 30 of these guys! Like The Simpsons or SouthPark the characters never age while technology and society changes around them. I have been reading these since I was in Year 8/9! I read the first

Additional Review 5

The No-Show by Beth O'Leary Thanks Caitlin for the loan of this surprisingly good book. I thought it would be a typical rom-com chick lit kinda deal. It was a bit more complicated than that. Nicely written and easy to read, it felt reminiscent of Marian Keyes with

Additional Review 3

Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall What a fun and cozy book. This is everything my pride month book wasn't. Set in the world of the Great British Bake Off (they call it bake expectations and have fictional judges and comedians but we know who

July - theme: Summer

Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson There were a lot of options in my bookcase for a book fitting the theme of "Summer". I'm not sure why I picked this one but I'm fairly glad I did. Summer makes me think of Rom-Coms