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Confederacy of Funny

January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment

“Any fool can make you cry,” English novelist Howard Jacobson once stated in an interview. “If I want to see what a writer’s made of, I say, ‘Go on, make me laugh!’”

Laughter. There’s never too much. This is why compiling a short list of funny books to read (or re-read) over the coming year is a good way to start off a new year – keeping all those resolutions can be such a downer. Here’s my list:

Please feel free to add your funny favorites in the comments section, we’d love to hear from you.

 

P.S. I like to ruffle through the archives from time to time. Here’s an article from the pre-iPad days, when e-readers and their contents were so ugly and clunky we pretty much shunned them.

And evermore, a plug for our beloved Livewriters…

It’s brain porn for the avid reader: Livewriters curates a wonderful sampling of booknerdy (and free) videos every day. Check them out here.


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