Another fun read from Pearson. Here just a very few funny bits: “For the record, here are the ten hottest toys in the Pearson household: A stick found in the park. …. The cat. Preferably asleep and therefore willing to wear a kerchief and be transported in a stroller. … Dollar-store stuff. Perfect. Quality matches …
Category: comedy
Aug 23 2026
Schumacher’s The English Experience – delightful!
Another good one from Schumacher! (The English Experience, Julie Schumacher) “The job of provosts was to create and then disseminate bad news …” p1 “I have an accentuating circumstance …” p20 The students’ assignment starting p42 is full of delights. “I am not saying this to make you an escape goat” p73 “Anyone who …
Aug 05 2026
from Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods – delightful and pointy at the same time
“Nearly everyone I talked to had some gruesome story involving a guileless acquaintance who had gone off hiking the trail with high hopes and new boots and come stumbling back two days later with a bobcat attached to his head …” p3 “… he had been let go from jobs at Harvard and the National …
Jul 12 2026
from When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
“…as someone whose sexuality so far had expressed itself as ‘possibly asexual or maybe just unimpressed with the local talent’ …” p187 “Jody Bannon was worth, what, a couple hundred billion dollars? Think about how much money that is. He could have spent a million dollars a day, on anything, and it would still take …
Jun 07 2026
Patricia Pearson, Playing House
(I’ve discovered a new funny author…) “He worked as a jazz musician, living off the avails of his art, which was the annual salary equivalent of two Smarties and a piece of string.” p4 “…he understood certain expatriate secrets, such as where Alberta was and how it felt to be treated like a doofus in …
Apr 21 2026
some funny bits from Tim Dorsey’s The Maltese Iguana
“I don’t need to read anything to know what I’m talking about!” / “In one sentence you’ve just summed up everything wrong wtih our country today!” p152 “A few short years ago, we could look at a drinking glass and agree it was filled to the midpoint with water, then argue about what it meant. But today? …
Mar 23 2026
Naomi Alderman’s The Power meets Monty Python’s “Hell’s Grannies”
A man struts and huffs and puffs and expands like a blowfish, but all the old women close their eyes. Deny him the female gaze. Refuse to be a witness to his Almighty Greatness, let alone a cheerleader. And not only does he deflate, he disappears in a puff of, well, nothingness. Existential nothingness. Beauvoir …
Jul 26 2025
Hacks (feat. Jean Smart) – highly recommended
If you’re not into it, at least watch episode 8 of season 1. (on Crave TV)
Jan 01 2023
How to Write a Scientific Paper, Schulman – from the delightfully funny AIR
I’ve recently discovered the website of AIR – Annals of Improbable Research – a magazine which I subscribed to way back when. I’ve been working my way through the site and highly recommend same to others interested in a sort of ‘Monty Python does Science’ humour. Just read How to “Write a Scientific Paper” https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume2/v2i5/howto.htm …
Nov 21 2018
Balls, by Jass Richards
Hilarious! Check it out: http://www.jassrichards.com/pdfs/Balls.pdf
- 1
- 2
fiction
