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Guest Review – Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

Life and Death are Wearing Me OutLife and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt
Reviewed by Jennifer Chin

Clever, funny, but most of all, an enlightening portrayal of Chinese village life surrounding the years of the cultural revolution, told by a man who is continually reincarnated as various animals from the Chinese zodiac. Wish I could have read it in Chinese for the full impact of all the plays on language.

Book Review – Talking as Fast as I Can

Talking as Fast as I Can book coverTalking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham

If this book is even a modicum of what it’s like inside Lauren Graham’s mind, I want to live there. Charming, fast-paced, interesting, crazy, funny, smart, and honest. I would recommend Lauren Graham’s memoir to fans of Gilmore Girls, fans of Parenthood, and fans of fun.

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Check this out… 19 of the Funniest Neil Gaiman Quotes

The 19 Funniest Neil Gaiman Tweets Of All Time via BuzzFeed

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Check this out… 27 Hilarious Literary Corrections

27 Hilarious Literary Corrections That Will Ruin Your Trust in the Media via Huffington Post

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Book Review – One More Thing

One More ThingOne More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak

Review: Crude, offbeat, imaginative. B.J. Novak, writer & actor for The Office, has released a collection of original short stories developed from a series of public readings. The stories range from less than a page to maybe 20 pages. They each have a unique flavor and many exude a dark sense of humor. I appreciated the fact that little details from previous stories come back in subsequent ones if you are paying close enough attention and while I didn’t laugh out loud, I did find some of them quite humorous. I particularly liked “The Something by John Grisham,” “The Girl Who Gave Great Advice,” and “If I Had a Nickel.”