Are you looking for something funny to read to lighten your mood?
I'm sure you have heard the phrase, laughter is the best medicine. According to a Psychology Today article "Laughter: The Best Medicine" from Apr. 5, 2005, by Hara Estroff Marano:
Laughter, it's said, is the best medicine. And there's lots of evidence that laughter does lots of good things for us. It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort.... Laughter establishes -- or restores -- a positive emotional climate.... Michael Miller, M.D., of the University of Maryland adds, laughter offsets the impact of mental stress....
And from one of my favorite authors, Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light:
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
We could all use a good laugh right now during this difficult time of isolation or too much alone time with our families. With this in mind I collected 12 titles available from the Library Digital Catalog. There is a little something here for everyone, from Humorous Mysteries to Romantic Comedy, Young Adult Comedy, Limericks & Puns.
Disclaimer: I have not read all of these, but I sure want to after getting hooked on their descriptions. Enjoy!
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Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Description: Alexander McCall Smith's wildly popular 44 Scotland Street series chronicles life in a corner of Edinburgh brimming with wit and humor. Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar....
Author: Louise Rennison
Description: No one captures the comical absurdity of teenage angst better than #1 New York Times best-selling author Louise Rennison. Self-obsessed yet irresistibly lovable. Publisher HarperTeen writes: Georgia and Jas are off to Hamburger-a-gogo land! Georgia plans to track down Masimo, the Italian-American dreamboat, but after a long week in America, she only succeeds in learning importantish things -- like how to ride a bucking bronco. Will Georgia reel in the Italian dreamboat? Or is she destined to live forever all aloney on her owney?
Author: Janet Evanovich
Description: Raucous, rambunctious Jersey girl Stephanie Plum, the Bounty Hunter from Hell (as she's known in her neighborhood), is back in her fifth madcap adventure --Booklist. The whole gang's here for mirth and mayhem. Read at your own risk in public places -- From the Publisher.
Author: Annabelle Gurwitch
Description: A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, and show-biz klatches who have become surrogates along the way.
Author: Lorna Landvik
Description: Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences…. With her trademark wit and warmth, Lorna Landvik follows Nora and an ever-growing cast of characters between city and wooded retreat, Minnesota and Norway, a past that's secret and a future that's promising, but uncertain.
Author: Kate Eberlen
Description: If ever a couple was 'meant to be,' it's Tess and Gus. This is such a witty, poignant, and uplifting story of two lives crisscrossing over the years, with near miss after near miss. . . . I couldn't put it down. --Sophie Kinsella
Author: Mackenzi Lee
Description: A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age.... Witty, dazzling, and intriguing at every turn, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is an irresistible romp that explores the undeniably fine lines between friendship and love.
Author: Tia Williams
Description: Will a forty-year-old woman with everything on the line - her high-stakes career, ticking biological clock, bank account - risk it all for an intensely lusty secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback, for good? "The Perfect Find is a fun romp through the world of new media fashion reporting. Tia Williams writes with juicy, behind-the-scenes details that let us know she’s been there and survived.” – Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made.
Author: Richard Vetere
Description: The story of Tom Chillo, a 44-year-old writer on the verge of fame, who suddenly dies of a stroke and finds himself transported to a place where all writers are sent after they die -- including Shakespeare, Wilde, Keats, and Tolstoy. This book is brimming with warm humor, New York street sensibility, and an underlying commentary about the drive for fame in contemporary culture.
Author: Michael Teig
Description: Michael Teig’s long-awaited second collection is the perfect poetry companion: witty, intriguing, and self-effacing as it picks up overheard conversations and the accidental encounters of everyday life. As Stephen Dobyns wrote, Teig's poems "have this ability to make the world fresh again and make us realize once again why we love the world, despite its failings and our own."
Author: Frida Clements
Description: Artist Frida Clements playfully combines colorfully detailed flora and fauna drawings with funny hand-lettered wordplay in this collection of beautifully illustrated puns.... Bringing a giggle (and sometimes a groan) with each inspired page, this clever volume makes a lovely and lighthearted gift for fans of witty humor and illustration.
Author: Jenny Colgan
Description: The beloved author of The Bookshop on the Corner returns with a sparkling, sunny, soulful new novel.... Funny and heartfelt, The Café by the Sea is a delightful summertime novel that puts a modern twist on the classic Seven Brides for Seven Brothers story.