Sunday, April 1, 2012

Tickling Your Funny Bone

April Fools' Day is celebrated in different countries around the world on April 1 every year. The day is marked by good-humoured or otherwise funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, and work associates. The origins of the holiday are fuzzy, with many theories but no definitive explanation.  But one thing is for sure - these books will cause a few chuckles.  No foolin'!


Big trouble by Barry, Dave
Describes the lives of the troubled denizens of Coconut Grove, including a career-threatened adman, an alcoholic embezzler dodging a couple of hit men, and their dysfunctional families.  Laugh-out-loud funny!

Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
Libby Mason has found the almost-perfect guy--Nick is good looking, fun to talk to and great in bed--but he's always strapped for cash and allergic to commitment. Then there's Ed--wealthy, longing for stability--but stodgy, awkward, and lousy in bed. It's the classic story of what happens to a girl when her heart and her head aren't looking for the same thing. What will Libby do?.

Can't Wait to Get To Heaven by Fannie Flagg
Strange things begin to happen when Mrs. Shimfissle, an eighty-year-old woman, falls out of a fig tree in her own front yard, in a novel about one woman's offbeat experiences in the hereafter.

The Blow-Off by Jim Knipfel
When his crime-blotter yarn about a Bigfoot-like creature incites a wave of hysteria in a New York City neighborhood, a newspaper reporter's attempt to set the record straight results in exponentially incredulous tales about murders, robberies and pie thefts.

Undead and Undermined by Mary Janice Davidson
Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor thought she couldn't die. So what's she doing in the morgue? It could have something to do with a time-traveling trip she made, and a foe with a wicked agenda that could finally be the real death of Betsy--if she's not careful.

Getting Sassy by D.C. Brod
In an attempt to avoid having her aging and forgetful mother move in with her, Robyn Guthrie and her accountant Mick Hughes hatch a scheme that targets the man who defrauded Robyn's mother and involves kidnapping a goat named Sassy.

Trust Me On This by Jennifer Crusie
Reporter Dennie Banks will do anything to get her story, even pull out all the stops to convince Alec Prentice to help her, in a romantic comedy that proves everyone is guilty of something--especially love.While managing the Virgin Birth Home for Unwed Mothers, Sam Callaham finds his life spinning wildly--and hilariously--out of control as he deals with his daughter's nervous breakdown, his mother's release from prison, an adoptive son trying to discover his parentage and a raging psychopath.

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