Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham - 304 Pages

"Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty, they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash, they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences—and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined.

A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition."


I didn't realize that this book was related to the film, Christmas with the Kranks, when I first picked it up, so it was a nice refreshment as it brought back memories to when I had watched the film with my family here and there whenever it aired on TV.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Heather's April Reads



Assassination Classroom bu Yusei Matsui (humour)
 Vol. 1 183 pages
 Vol. 2 199 pages
 Vol. 3 190 pages
 Vol. 4 198 pages
 A classroom of slacker students must kill their teacher before the year ends to keep him from destroying the world. The only problem? He is the best teacher they have ever had, and he is unbeatable!


Boneyard by Richard Moore (humour)
 Vol. 1 106 pages
 Vol. 2 96 pages
 Vol. 3 96 pages
 Vol. 4 96 pages
 Michael Paris has inherited a piece of land from his grandfather who dies just before the start of the story. When he goes to Raven's Hollow to settle on the land for a price he discovers the town's graveyard and it's inhabitants being forced out of their home by the overzealous town mayor.


The Devil is a Part-timer by Satoshi Wagahara (humour)
 Vol. 1 178 pages
 Vol. 2 178 pages
 Vol. 3 178 pages
 Vol. 4 162 pages
 Devil King Sadao Maou and his general have been stripped of their powers and banished to earth where they end up in modern day Tokyo. Now the Demon King is a part-time fry cook trying to survive and figure a way to get back to conquering the masses on a budget.


Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (humour)
329 pages
This book is hard for me to describe but I feel it has a very good message. No matter what life throws at you grab the good things and hold on tight to them. Even when you feel beat down and ready to give up, don't and remember to smile with your arms wide open.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Doughnut by Tom Holt

Doughnut by Tom Holt, 400 pages

Theo Bernstein is having a bad day in an increasingly bad life.  Once you blow up your workplace which happens to be the Very Very Large Hadron Collider, there really is no going back to work as an experimental physicist.   Bernstein discovers that he was left a legacy by his former mentor that will reveal his true destiny, and yes that destiny involves doughnuts...plus a lot of string theory and interdimensional travel.  Believe it or not, this is all results in a very funny and darkly humorous book in the tradition of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.