Happy National Read-a-Book Day
September 6, 2021
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Caturday funnies — literary edition
September 4, 2021
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS
RAPUNZEL
SLEEPING BEAUTY
HARRY POTTER
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
THE FROG PRINCE
CHICKEN LITTLE
THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THE RELUCTANT DRAGON
THE SNOW QUEEN
THE UGLY DUCKLING
HANSEL AND GRETEL
DRACULA
THE SECRET GARDEN
84 CHARING CROSS ROAD
WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD
THEÂ WIZARD OF OZ
FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW
CINDERELLA
TREASURE ISLAND
SNOW WHITE
BLACK BEAUTY
LITTLE WOMEN
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
THUMBELINA
ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES
MACBETH
YOGA FOR DUMMIES
THE HORSE AND HIS BOY
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Happy National Book Lovers Day
August 9, 2021
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Monday chuckles — National Book Lovers Day edition
August 9, 2021
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Bibliophile humor
April 20, 2021
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Wednesday weirdness
April 7, 2021This video is ancient — even older than YouTube! — and about as amateurish as a video can be, but it still cracks me up every time I watch it. If you are unfamiliar with the plot of Pride and Prejudice, you should probably give this one a miss, as it will make no sense whatsoever.
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Happy National Library Week
April 5, 2021Cartoons for literature lovers from John Atkinson.
See more of John Atkinson’s work at Wrong Hands.
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Happy [cheery, merry, joyful, jocular, gleeful] birthday, Peter
January 18, 2021A little bibliophile humor today in honor of the birthday of Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), author of Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition.
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Happy birthday, P. G. Wodehouse
October 15, 2020In honor of the birthday of one of my favorite authors, here is a book review in verse by one of my favorite poets.
PG Wooster, Just As He Useter
by Ogden Nash
Bound to your bookseller, leap to your library,
Deluge your dealer with bakshish and bribary,
Lean on the counter and never say when,
Wodehouse and Wooster are with us again.
Flourish the fish-slice, your buttons unloosing,
Prepare for the fabulous browsing and sluicing,
And quote, til you’re known as the neighborhood nuisance,
The gems that illumine the browsance and sluicance.
Oh, fondle each gem, and after you quote it,
Kindly inform me just who wrote it.
Which came first, the egg or the rooster?
PG Wodehouse or Bertram Wooster?
I know hawk from handsaw, and Finn from Fiji,
But I can’t disentangle Bertram from PG.
I inquire in the school room, I ask in the road house,
Did Wodehouse write Wooster, or Wooster Wodehouse?
Bertram Wodehouse and PG Wooster,
They are linked in my mind like Simon and Schuster.
No matter which fumbled in ’41,
Or which the woebegone figure of fun.
I deduce how the faux pas came about,
It was clearly Jeeves’s afternoon out.
Now Jeeves is back, and my cheeks are crumply
From watching him glide through Steeple Bumpleigh.
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
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Happy National Book Lovers Day
August 9, 2020
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