Next month I am taking a two week vacation, and one of my favorite things to do is read a few good books.
I enjoy autobiographies, intelligient humor, and some fiction.
I tend to not like war stories, violence or anything depressing.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated!
I once read a biography on Douglas Adams, which I suppose could count, more or less, for all three of your requirements.
Biography and humour can be had in any of Bill Bryson’s books.
Also a favourite autobiography is Travels by Michael Crichton, particularly since I don’t really like Crichton as a novelist. For a different kind of autobiography try A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers. Cooking with Queen Ida is a combined autobiography and Creole cookbook.
Jean Shepherd’s In God We Trust, All Other Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night Of Golden Memories are humor books based on his childhood in Indiana. If you like the film A Christmas Story (based upon stories in the first book), you might like these books.
Thanks for the suggestions thus far, humorous books are always my favorite.
Widdershins: thanks for the suggestion. “A Christmas Story”
is one of my favorite movies.
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I took a few of Janet Evanovich’s novels (“One for the Money”) on my vacation because they were light (literally and figuratively), funny, and upbeat. If you’ve never read them, they are about a 20ish woman who gets laid off and decides to become the world’s worst bounty hunter. Her sidekicks are her 80ish grandma, a former ho, and a flatulent dog if that gives you any indication. 