Posts tagged humor
It’s time to get the band back together.
Does anyone else see the irony in this sign? Does correct spelling require thinking?
30 FUNNIEST BOOKS EVER
Books take you to all sorts of places. Not literally of course. It’s a metaphor.
However, rare is the book that provokes a fit of the giggles. Reading tends to be an insular activity; puncturing the silence that accompanies such an endeavour does not come easily.
So, when a book does trigger such an emotion then, dear reader, you have something very special indeed. In honour of those pieces of literature that stir the laughing gases, we present for your fair delectation the 30 funniest books known to our eyes.
Too funny!
cute.
Amanda and I go to Amoeba Records, and they let us wander the halls, pick stuff, talk about it and then take it home. This is the talking about it bit. So cool.
It would be nice if that many people actually read. Typically when I’m on a plane, about 10% to 20% of the passengers may have books, the other people are playing video games or watching movies.
“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.” — David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Hilariously Self-Depricating Quotes from Your Favorite Authors
10 Signs That You’re a Writer
by Writability
- You constantly edit. Whether it’s while you’re driving down the street and pass a misspelled sign, or grammatical errors in Facebook posts, you fix errors constantly in your mind—and sometimes not so silently.
- You’re highly observant. And not only do you notice things all the time, but you file them away in your I could write about this later folder.
- You often ask, “How could I describe this?” You don’t ignore your life experiences—everything from walking outside during a torrential downpour, to burning yourself while cooking, to taking the first bite of a piping-hot homemade chocolate chip cookie can be used in your writing, and you often pause to think about how you would describe it in words.
- You have a hyperactive imagination. There’s never a dull moment in that head of yours—your imagination is always working on overtime to keep you entertained and give you fresh ideas.
- You feel inspired to write after reading a good book. Enough said.
- You often daydream about your WIPs. Your characters never completely leave you— they walk alongside you throughout the day and give you new ideas when you least expect it.
- You feel guilty if you haven’t written anything in a while. What a “while” is depends, but after a writing hiatus, a part of you begins to demand that you get back to the keyboard and reprimands you if you don’t.
- Grammar jokes are funny. Well, they are.
- You can’t get enough books. After all, every new book is a couple hours worth of inspiration.
- You keep doing this writing thing. It doesn’t matter if you’re not published, if no one else cares if you continue to write, if you don’t make a penny off of the words that you put on the page—none of that matters, because you’ll continue to write anyway.
10 Signs by Writability
Reblogged from Writers Write
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
A Conversation I Overheard Last Night in the Bookstore
- Daughter: Why didn't you tell me this book was so good
- Mother: I did, you just didn't listen.
- Daughter: You never said a word. I would have read it if you had told me.
- Mother: I did tell you. Three times! I even showed you the book when you came over two weekends ago.
- Daughter: I think you're making this up.
- Mother: I told you. I really did. But what made you decide to read it?
- Daughter: I saw it on your coffee table and took it home and read it.
- Mother: I put it there after I told you about it.
- Daughter: [Looks at mother incredulously]
- Mother: [pulls a book off the shelf and hands it to her daughter] You should read this book, it's very good.
- Daughter: [Takes the book, looks it over and puts it back on the shelf] That doesn't look that good.
- Mother: [Throws her hands in the air and walks away]
- Daughter: What?
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.
Leave me alone … I’m reading!
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