books about: laughter

books about: laughter

books:

Laughter

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Fannie Flagg

Ballantine Books, 2007

Can't Wait To Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
This little book is a wonderfully humorous view into the everyday lives of people living in a close-knit small town. It was uplifting and wise and gave a warm and meaningful perspective of life and death. Not only do I highly recommend it, I have bought several ...

Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

Deepak Chopra

Harmony, 2008

Why are Me and God laughing
This is such a great book, plenty of laughs and realizations. You can get your energy flowing in the right direction with this book. Enjoy.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999

Classic, devastating
THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING is a sophisticated work of art. An amalgam of experimental fiction, straightforward storytelling, magical realism and metafiction, it successfully grapples with bigger than big themes, portraying the crucible that was Czechoslovakia ...

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous ...

Kathleen Flinn

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

Trials and triumphs in the world's most famous cooking school
The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry is a riveting memoir of one woman's journey through the hallowed kitchens of Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Fresh from a corporate layoff in her London office, Kathleen Flinn chases her childhood dream to attend Le Cordon Bleu, ...

Laughter of Dead Kings (Vicky Bliss, No. 6)

Elizabeth Peters

William Morrow, 2008

Valley of the Dead Kings
The book arrrived quickly, well wrapped and will be enjoyed by our entire circle of Elizabeth Peters fans! Catherine Taylor

I'd Rather Do Chemo Than Clean Out the Garage:: Choosing Laughter over Tears

Fran Di Giacomo

Brown Books, 2003

Laugh it up, baby!!!
I got this book as a gift, and LOVED it. I finished the book during one ER visit. The book will keep you stitches. Great gift for cancer patient.

Mr. Funny (Mr. Men and Little Miss)

Roger Hargreaves

Price Stern Sloan, 1997

Delightful
How can anyone *not* love these books? "Mr. Funny" is especially dear. In a few, short pages this character spreads the news that laughter cures all. Who needs to sit through 2 hours of "Patch Adams" when you can read this little book in under five minutes?

The Healing Power of Humor

Allen Klein

Tarcher, 1989

Helps us lighten the load of life on a daily basis.
Educational and entertaining, this book relays convincing evidence as to the psychological and physiological benefits of humor. The author gives concrete and helpgful techniques and suggestions as to how we can begin to bring more joy and laughter into our lives. Lots ...

Little Miss Sunshine (Mr. Men and Little Miss)

Roger Hargreaves

Price Stern Sloan, 1997

This book will make you laugh.
Little Miss Sunshine finds herself in Miseryland. She gets arrested because she laughs and giggles too much. She is a happy person all of the time, even in Miseryland. She changes the names of Miseryland to Laughterland so that everybody there can be happy. She ...

Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love

Philip Gulley

HarperOne, 2007

Great choice
I purchase this book for my elderly parents and listened to them read every night until completed. They thoroughly enjoyed the book and the large-print edition is a bonus.

The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel

James Wood

Picador, 2005

Sense and Sensibility
It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is no current literary critic who writes as brilliantly as James Wood. His metaphoric precision, his moral rigor, his exacting standards of literary excellence, his humanistic compassion dwarfs all competitors for the ...

Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul: 101 Stories of Courage, Hope and Laughter (Chicken Soup for the Soul)

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, ...

HCI, 1998

Best Book Ever
Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul; 102 Stories to Give Kids Courage, Hope, Laughter This book is more than just a book. My friends and I have read it and we agree that it's an awesome book.

Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories

Steven Millhauser

Knopf, 2008

O. Henry meets Stephen King, offspring ensues
Millhauser writes short stories that seem the illegitimate offspring of O. Henry and Stephen King, descriptive and spare, matter-of-fact and wry, dense and light. I also reviewed The Barnum Museum (American Literature Series) collection that included the spare but ...

Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul: Stories of Love, Laughter and Commitment to Last a Lifetime (Canfield, ...

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, ...

HCI, 2004

The Important Things
Upon reading this book, I am immediately reminded of how strong the bond between couples in love must be, and how they can be. The stories in "Bride's Soul" consistently serve to regenereate and reinforce the fact that a lifelong love becomes a relationship in which ...

Cancer Has Its Privileges: Stories of Hope and Laughter

Christine Clifford

Perigee Trade, 2002

What a book!
"Cancer Has Its Privileges" is one of the funniest and most inspiring books ever written about a disease half of us will end up with --- and one quarter of us will end up dying from. Christine Clifford's keen wit and unique insights --- and, most of all, her humorous ...