[bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
- From: "susan l. gerhart" <slger123@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:47:53 -0700
amanda cross byc. heilbrun.
drinking english ny prof dic. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:20:11 -0400,
Estelnalissi wrote:
>Dear Booksharian Friends,
>
>Junie B Jones, Kindergartener and First Grader always makes me smile.
>I'm validating Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day this afternoon and
>Bookshare will soon have all of the books in both of the Junie B.
>Series.Junie B. is right up there with Ramona.
>
>Amelia Peabody is funny and Emerson, Father of Curses, such a blow hard,
>is no slouch, either!
>
>Agatha Raisin, who calls her female competition, "Old Trouts," Cheats in
>contests, bites off people's heads and gets her feelings easily hurt,
>cracks me up in the cozy mysteries by M. C. Beaton.
>
>My dear soft hearted Hagrid, in Harry Potter, who mops up his tears with
>tablecloths, knits and makes excuses for all creatures, even when they
>draw blood, lightens the mood and is my kind of hero.
>
>Touchy, self important, Hercule Perrot is mildly funny. I don't laugh
>out loud at him, but have to smile.
>
>Nero Wolfe and Archie are funny. Archie thinks he's such a babe and Nero
>is so spoiled. Archie is about the only person alive who would dare be
>sarcastic about or to Nero, but he thinks his boss has cornered the
>market when it comes to brains, and is ever loyal.
>
>And Stephanie Plum, that whole series makes me laugh out loud. Janet
>Evanovitch Rocks. Grandma Mazer, fan of funerals and grabber of high
>caliber weaponry, and Lula the ex hoe, diet queen, and the one who eggs
>people on in dangerous situations from her safe hiding place behind a
>couch which is big enough to conceal her, or from behind a mop where
>everything hangs out but she still thinks she's hiding. I may never get
>over Stephanie and Lula at the Elvis impersonators convention in Las
>Vegas!
>
>Can anyone remind me of the southern widow's name who is funny, too.
>She's in books like Blank takes a stand. Her dead husband left her well
>off and she took in his mistress and her young son. She lives across the
>street from a church where she terrorizes the minister. To raise money
>to save a trailer park she rides in a motor cycle rally practically
>kicking and screaming the whole way while I, the reader, was jealous.
>
>I admire authors who write humor. I'm impressed when they pull off a
>little humor. When they write series sustaining humor throughout entire
>novels I'm agog! When I think about it, it seems successful writers of
>the humor fiction genre are the rarest. Any thoughts about that?
>
>Always with love,
>
>Lissi
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: rita weyler
>To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:40 PM
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] characters that make you smile
>
>
>Hi all
>Their are certain books that are always good for a smile. I love the
>Mrs. Pollifax books. I can just picture this feisty grandmotherly
>character taking on theCIA .
>I like Ellis Peter's irrasible Amelia Peabody too.
>What characters can you turn to for a guaranteed smile?
>Rita
>Dear Booksharian Friends, Junie B Jones, Kindergartener and First
>Grader
>always makes me smile. I'm validating Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field
>Day
>this afternoon and Bookshare will soon have all of the books in both of
>the
>Junie B. Series.Junie B. is right up there with Ramona. Amelia
>Peabody is funny and Emerson, Father of
>Curses, such a blow hard, is no slouch, either! Agatha Raisin, who
>calls her female competition,
>"Old Trouts," Cheats in contests, bites off people's heads and gets her
>feelings
>easily hurt, cracks me up in the cozy mysteries by M. C. Beaton. My
>dear soft hearted Hagrid, in Harry Potter, who
>mops up his tears with tablecloths, knits and makes excuses for all
>creatures,
>even when they draw blood, lightens the mood and is my kind of hero.
>Touchy, self important, Hercule Perrot is mildly
>funny. I don't laugh out loud at him, but have to smile. Nero Wolfe
>and Archie are funny. Archie thinks he's
>such a babe and Nero is so spoiled. Archie is about the only person
>alive who
>would dare be sarcastic about or to Nero, but he thinks his boss has
>cornered
>the market when it comes to brains, and is ever loyal. And Stephanie
>Plum, that whole series makes me
>laugh out loud. Janet Evanovitch Rocks. Grandma Mazer, fan of funerals
>and
>grabber of high caliber weaponry, and Lula the ex hoe, diet queen, and
>the one
>who eggs people on in dangerous situations from her safe hiding place
>behind a
>couch which is big enough to conceal her, or from behind a mop where
>everything
>hangs out but she still thinks she's hiding. I may never get over
>Stephanie and
>Lula at the Elvis impersonators convention in Las Vegas! Can anyone
>remind me of the southern widow's name
>who is funny, too. She's in books like Blank takes a stand. Her dead
>husband
>left her well off and she took in his mistress and her young son. She
>lives
>across the street from a church where she terrorizes the minister. To
>raise
>money to save a trailer park she rides in a motor cycle rally
>practically
>kicking and screaming the whole way while I, the reader, was jealous.
>I admire authors who write humor. I'm impressed
>when they pull off a little humor. When they write series sustaining
>humor
>throughout entire novels I'm agog! When I think about it, it seems
>successful
>writers of the humor fiction genre are the rarest. Any thoughts about
>that?
>Always with love, Lissi ----- Original Message ----- From: rita
>
>weyler To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March
>12, 2008 4:40
>PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] characters
>that make you smile Hi all Their are certain books that are always
>good for
>a smile. I love the Mrs. Pollifax books. I can just
>picture this feisty grandmotherly character taking on theCIA
>. I like Ellis Peter's irrasible Amelia Peabody
>too. What characters can you turn to for a
>guaranteed smile? Rita
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