Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye!
10 best books like Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye! (Cynthia Heimel): I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, & Doggone It, People Like Me!, Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road, Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor, Waylaid, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs, The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante
| Author | Roger Rapoport |
| ISBN | 1571430148 |
In this hilarious anthology 50 top travel writers, novelists and journalists, including Isabel Allende, Jan Morris, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux, Mary Morris, Dominique Lapierre, Eric Hansen, Rick Steves, Tony Wheeler and Helen Gurley Brown, tell the stories of their greatest travel disasters....
I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
| Author | Erma Bombeck |
| ISBN | 0345467590 |
Some of Bombeck's books make me laugh and some don't, but this was a good one. I guess I could relate with being a mom!
I love the story of the mother she thought was perfect because we all envy that person and we all know her. When Bombeck asked this mother how she managed, I love that the lady said she...
I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, & Doggone It, People Like Me!
| Author | Al Franken |
| ISBN | 0440504708 |
The ultimate meditation book, not to be grandiose...
Take a hilarious, healing journey with Stuart Smalley as he careens down the road to Recovery. For one entire year Stuart recorded an affirmation a day...except when he had taken to his bed (but that's Okay)...and the result is the most...
| Author | Jennifer L. Leo |
| ISBN | 1885211929 |
Travel isn’t always what we dream it will be, but...oh the stories that follow! For the 25 women in this book who packed their sense of humor as they traveled from Alaska to Zanzibar, the journey brought tales of misadventure that their children and grandchildren, and readers of this book, will never...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 1932361448 |
Yikes, just when I had read one in this series that rated average, it slipped back down to below average again. And to add insult to injury, this book shared some stories with some of their other books that I've read (Whose Panties are These, Sand in my Bra, and more). I mean, if you don't have time enough to...
| Author | Michael J. Rosen |
| ISBN | 0060953217 |
Seriously Funny Writing By Today's Most Celebrated AuthorsAt last, a premier showcase of fifty-four great literary humorists and masters of the journalistic jab, the social spoof, the parodic proof, the satire, the tirade, and the send-up. Here are those "last laughs" and "wit's end" pieces everyone...
| Author | Ed Lin |
| ISBN | 1885030320 |
Waylaid is the story of a Chinese American boy who struggles to grow up in the grip of an overcharged sexual environment. With a daily routine that involves renting out rooms to johns and hookers at his parents' sleazy hotel, the narrator loses his grip on concepts of friendship, family and childhood....
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 0740706004 |
When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning just another installment of his weekly syndicated humor column. But the witty writer was flabbergasted by the response when over 10,000 readers voted. "I have never written a column that got a bigger...
The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction
| Author | Linda H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0393978877 |
I have to use the Norton Reader for my AP English Language & Composition course. This course has turned into one of my favorites of all time and it is undeniable that one of the core reasons for that is the Norton Reader. The diverse, timely, and thought provoking essays in this collection have been...
Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante
| Author | Ayun Halliday |
| ISBN | 1580051308 |
If it's true that the average worker will hold an average of seven jobs over the course of a lifetime, Ayun Halliday is anything but average. In her brief thirty-something years, Halliday has managed to rack up an impressive array of short lived stints in the paid job market, including life guard, library...
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 0812564871 |
Herb Moss is a nice young man. He's a Vegan. It's a good life, really; he's engaged to his childhood sweetheart Lily, has a job with his father's firm, and can look forward to a solid if unexciting future. And if he's bored and wistful every time he thinks about it--well, that's normal, isn't it? Surely,...
| Author | Edward Castronova |
| ISBN | 0226096270 |
From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours—and dollars—partaking in this popular...
Loser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation
| Author | Dan Kennedy |
| ISBN | 1400053749 |
It all begins on Christmas morning, 1978. Dan Kennedy is ten years old and wants a black Gibson Les Paul guitar, the kind Peter Frampton plays. It will be his passport to the coolest (only) band in the neighborhood—Jokerz. He doesn’t get it. Instead, his parents present him with what they think he...
| Author | Bob Smith |
| ISBN | 0380732009 |
As an openly gay comic, Bob Smith broke barriers with an appearance on "The Tonight Show." Now Smith offers up his own original, whine-free perspective on being grown up and gay.In OPENLY BOB, the acclaimed comedian candidly, and humorously, tackles issues facing grown-up gays as they make their place...
Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs
| Author | Wendy Spero |
| ISBN | 1594630194 |
Raised in Manhattan by her tiny sex-therapist mother and her two eccentric grandparents, Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in "microthrills," the small, strange highs that give her life meaning.
Her story begins in the one-bedroom, Upper East Side apartment she shared with her overly...
| Author | Sandra Tsing Loh |
| ISBN | 1573226114 |
I love the writing of Sandra Tsing Loh because she is incredibly witty and acerbic, and doesn't take herself or anything too seriously. And, she can write about the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles in language that makes it sound downright pleasant.
Loh is the Queen of the San Fernando Valley,...
The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up
| Author | Dan Zevin |
| ISBN | 0812967224 |
Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we develop a disturbing new interest in lawn care; the day we order sauvignon blanc instead of Rolling Rock; the day we refuse to see any concert where we cannot sit down. Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we turn uncool.
Dan Zevin, who “was...
Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories
| Author | Cynthia Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0060548517 |
Do you know why a race-car driver wears epaulets despite the fact that epaulets would seem in every way contrary to the aesthetic of a race-car driver? It's so that in the event of a crash he may be pulled from the flaming wreckage of his car.
Yes, she's back. Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of...
| Author | Ian Frazier |
| ISBN | 0374524912 |
When Ian Frazier's first collection of humorous essays, Dating Your Mom, was published in 1986, Time's reviewer Paul Gray called it "hilarious" and warned readers to" read sparingly... By 1996 another collection may appear." And he was rights. Frazier's new collection, Coyote v. Acme, includes...
| Author | Lisa Jones |
| ISBN | 0385471238 |
In "Bulletproof Diva," Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous "Village Voice" column, "Skin Trade, " to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and observations on race, sex, identity,...
The Kindness of Strangers
| Author | Don George |
| ISBN | 1740595904 |
Although I haven't finished every one of these essays, I've read the vast majority of them. I give the collection four stars on the whole, because a few of the tales are mediocre at best and a few are truly beautiful and outstanding. I like the fact that some are written by brand-new authors while others...
| Author | Dav Pilkey |
| ISBN | 0531059820 |
Dear Reader's in Mr. Middleton's Class,
Do you want to read a happy and sad story? If you want, I present to you "Dragon's Fat Cat." It's a dragon book. First Dragon heard a "meow" sound so he opened the door and there was a cat sitting in the snow. Again, Dragon looked outside and saw the cat in snow...
The Best American Crime Writing 2005
| Author | James Ellroy |
| ISBN | 0060815515 |
The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by...
