I hate January. I hate cold. I hate snow. I hate cold snow even more. I don’t care if I’m Canadian and I should be used to it by now. I’m not. So there.
Because I hate this month more than brussel sprouts, I like to find things that make me happy, even for a few hours, and there is nothing that makes me happier than a book that makes me laugh. My favourites are:
1. Bridget Jones’s Diary
2. Angela’s Ashes
3. Knocked Up
4. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
5. Go the F*%k to Sleep
6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
7. Dear Mr. Blueberry
8. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
9. Confessions of Georgia Nicholson (series)
10. The Help
If you have any favourites that I haven’t listed here, please post them in the comments. We’ve had like 10 inches of snow since yesterday and I need to giggle at something other than people falling over on the ice. Uh, not that I would do that…
Tawna Fenke’s MAKING WAVES (her blog is my daily laugh)
Gail Carriger’s SOULLESS
Anything by Meg Cabot though I love SIZE 12 IS NOT FAT
Neil Gaiman’s STARDUST
NORTHANGER ABBEY (I love the tongue-in-cheekiness of this book)
LITTLE WOMEN
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
JANE EYRE
(The last three are my favorite feel-good books. I’ve read them dozens of times.)
Great list–I laughed so much reading Bridget Jones, and some of the others have been on my to-read list for too long!
I recently finished THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY by Adam Rex and laughed out loud many, many times while reading it. Anything by David Sedaris also usually does the trick.
I read Will Grayson, Will Grayson, as well. John Green is brilliant.