Title: Belle Weather
Author: Celia Rivenbark
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Copyright: 2008
Reviewer: Nancy
Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: Without a doubt this is the funniest book I've read this year! For one thing, Rivenbark is Southern, which gives this collection of essays the perfect blend of hysteria and dysfunction. For another, she is possibly the sharpest-eyed domestic commentator since Erma Bombeck (although with a LOT more swearing)! Believe me, I'd read you a passage from this book, but I can't...I'm laughing too hard to talk!

Title: The Know-It-All
Author: A.J. Jacobs
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Copyright: 2004
Reviewer: Nancy
Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: If you can't imagine how reading the Encyclopedia Britannica could be entertaining, you haven't read this book. The author may not have succeeded in "becoming the smartest person in the world," but he is certainly among the funniest. His quotes and observations make reading the encyclopedia sound not only bearable, but fascinating. I found that I couldn't read this book in public without drawing stares from people around me as I laughed out loud. From "a-ak" (see gagaku), through "kappa...a vampirelike lecherous creature from Japan that's obsessed with cucumbers" to the anticlimactic "Zywiec...a town in south-central Poland," this is a great read!