[bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:42:58 -0700 (PDT)
I've been validating Princess Diary books and Mia is
funny. Things she says, or writes, make me smile,
chuckle or laugh, depending on the sentence.
G.Cindy
--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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