tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post7737103855470779605..comments2024-03-27T18:28:32.102-07:00Comments on Rose City Reader: Literary Blog Hop: How Funny!Gilion at Rose City Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-49733700649492276752011-03-11T23:23:21.375-08:002011-03-11T23:23:21.375-08:00Yesssss! When I saw the question, I immediately t...Yesssss! When I saw the question, I immediately thought <i>Lucky Jim</i>! <i>Tristram Shandy</i>, and <i>Lucky Jim</i>.<br /><br />Twelve or thirteen years ago, I gave a copy of LJ to my dad. It disappeared for a few years, until my mom picked it off the shelf. When she finished, she called me: "It's the story of your life!" she said. "Yep," I said. And from then on,Michael5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-29536927906034751072011-03-10T17:51:06.928-08:002011-03-10T17:51:06.928-08:00Tristram Shandy-great answer-takes me in the way b...Tristram Shandy-great answer-takes me in the way back machine!<br /><br />I would to be sure you have this<br /><br /><br />I would like to invite you to consider participating in<br /><br /><a href="http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2011/02/welcome-to-all-book-blog-hoppers-feb-25.html" rel="nofollow">Irish Short Story Week-3/14 to 3/20 </a>Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-71960198892797283852011-03-10T17:33:31.161-08:002011-03-10T17:33:31.161-08:00Perhaps I find life itself funnier than I realized...Perhaps I find life itself funnier than I realized, because quite a bit of literature is at least amusing.<br /><br />Besides Pride & Prejudice (well, all of Austen), parts of Dickens and P.G. Wodehouse, George Eliot tickles my funny bone right now. Thackeray is quite sly in Vanity Fair and Henry Fielding could turn an amusing phrase. More modern, E.F. Benson's Mapp & Lucia books are Lynne Peredniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12602493977652423553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-41345919888409420602011-03-10T17:26:10.500-08:002011-03-10T17:26:10.500-08:00I think lierature can be funny, too. I loved P &am...I think lierature can be funny, too. I loved P & P. there were places, especially things that Father said that made me chuckle!<br /><br />Feel free to link with my post on Lone Star Noir. It's here:<br />http://abookwormsreviews.blogspot.com/2011/03/lone-star-noir-edited-by-bobby-byrd.htmlSharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947271410329103836noreply@blogger.com