[Publib] Cheerful books'

[Bird, Daryl]

I love it that murder can make for cheerful reading. Kind of reminds me
of George Carlin's routine proving that even rape can be funny.

 

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sue Kamm
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:44 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
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Donna Andrews's Meg Langslow mysteries, beginning with MURDER WITH
PEACOCKS.  Meg's widespread and charmingly eccentric family provides at
least one good laugh per book.  

 

Your friendly neighborhood CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor-at-Large,
Sue Kamm
Los Angeles/Inglewood, CA
email:  suekamm AT mindspring DOT com
blog: http://suekamm.blogspot.com
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game
begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms
in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as
the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti, "Green Fields of the Mind."

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	From: Kathleen Stipek <mailto:kstipek at aclib.us>  

	To: Holly Wolf <mailto:wolf.holly at gmail.com>  ;
publib at webjunction.org 

	Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:09 AM

	Subject: RE: [Publib] Cheerful books

	 

	#1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith

	Anything by P.G. Wodehouse or Robert Benchley, any of Pat
McManus's outdoors essays collections

	The Provincial Lady books by E.M. Delafield

	The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies

	Most of Gerald Durrell's reminiscences

	 

	Kathleen Stipek

	Alachua County Library District

	401 East University Avenue

	Gainesville, Florida 32601

	352-334-3931 fax 352-334-3948

	 

	Non, merci.

	 

	
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	From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Holly Wolf
	Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:39 PM
	To: publib at webjunction.org
	Subject: [Publib] Cheerful books

	Has anyone else been getting requests for "cheerful books?"
I've had two this week, and I'm just part-time.
	
	What do you recommend?  To get you started, Garden Spells and
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for recent titles, Walk
Across America, Cheaper by the Dozen and anything by Miss Read for old
standbys.  
	
	TIA--
	
	Holly Wolf
	
	wolf.holly at gmail.com

	
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