Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, by James Breakwell

James Breakwell is famous on the internet for his jokes and cartoons on family life. He has a large following on his Twitter feed, and is also on Facebook, known by his screen name, Exploding Unicorn, on both sites. Only Dead on the Inside is his first book.

If you have a family and need to keep them all safe and alive from zombies, this is your book. Buy it now, read it and keep it for reference. It could also be useful for hurricanes, earthquakes, and ordinary human bad guys. It is packed full of helpful drawings, charts, and lists, as well as general parenting advice and philosophy. And humor - good for stress relief! Stock up now on diapers, umbrella strollers, and at least one minivan. Read the book and you'll understand.

The Watsons Go To Birmingham, by Christopher Paul Curtis

An award winning children's/young adult story about a typical African American family of the upper midwest who travel to Alabama to visit relatives before a fateful September Sunday. Mr. Curtis very skillfully blends humor with tragedy.

The Inimitable Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse

A loosely connected collection of short stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster.

Don't we all wish we had a Jeeves to take care of us, to provide our every need even before we knew we needed it, and to solve all our problems and our friends' problems with ease and diplomacy? Bertie Wooster is a young man of Edwardian England, a socialite who has received a good education and seemingly is not required to work for his living. He and his friends frequently find themselves "in the soup", usually of their own making, and Bertie's valet, Jeeves, always adroitly manages to restore them to the good graces of their families. The contrast between Bertie's casual Edwardian slang ("What ho and all that rot" for example), behavior, and attitude and Jeeves' very proper, conservative manner ("Very good, sir") was part of the fun of reading this.

I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood, by Dave Barry

Read, reviewed, and released in October, 2012

Dave Barry is a former weekly humor columnist and now is an author.
This book is full of "advice" about being a father and a husband and how to be a middle aged man without actually having grown up! Parts of it were very funny, and parts were just silly. The one serious chapter, on getting a coloscopy, was worthwhile reading (but not entirely funny).

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind: A Novel, by Ann B. Ross

Read and reviewed in July, 2009. Released later

A light, fun read. An interesting scenario (to say the least), with humor and suspense. A grieving widow answers her door to find a distraught young woman with a little boy she says is her (the widow's) late husband's son! The young woman leaves the boy with the widow and goes off to beauty school.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson

Read and reviewed in February, 2009. Released in June.

I finished reading this book this morning. Bill Bryson is a very humorous writer. He can make anything seem funny, even slogging through snow, rain, cold, and heat through the woods on the Appalachian Trail. Along the way, he gives a lot of information about the history of the trail, some important events that happened in the vicinity, particularly events surrounding the American Civil War, and facts concerning the biological diversity and geology of the area.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and will look for more of his work.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Read, reviewed, and released as part of a bookring in July, 2009

A wonderful book! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I felt so close to the characters that I want to meet them. It expresses a triumph of the human spirit over the adverse conditions of enemy occupation during wartime. Warmth and humor prevail. I hope there will be a sequel some day; I would like to know what happens to Kit as she grows older.

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Round Ireland with a Fridge, by Tony Hawks

Read and reviewed in June, 2008. Later released as a bookray to other Bookcrossers.

I just finished this book yesterday, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it! It was a true, and humourous account of the author's adventures as he hitchhiked around the perimeter of Ireland with a small refrigerator. I laughed out loud as I read almost every page!

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