Secret Little Book Club

Posts Tagged ‘comedy

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Posted by: flairandsquare on: January 10, 2009

I love holidays…. I’ve read another book! It took me a while to get into this deeply sad, sometimes funny but mostly tragic book. The story is narrated by a nine year old boy, Oskar Schell. Oskar has his own business card “amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist” and a metal detector, [...]

The Lucy Family Alphabet

Posted by: desosborn on: October 29, 2008

Well, this was a bit of a blast. The A-Z of the life and times of Judith Lucy (she wrote the book!), one of Australia’s favourite stand-up comedians - she’s an actress too (she was in Crackerjack I think). Anyway, it’s hard to work out whether she loves or hates her family in this book but if you [...]


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