Class Clown by Dave Barry

May 23, 2025

The title of Dave Barry’s latest New York Times bestseller is almost as long as the book itself, Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up. However, the book is more serious than you’d expect from that...

How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson

February 16, 2025

Kate Jackson’s How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel is amusing at times. Anyone who reads the Golden Age Classics from Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, John Dickson Carr, and other authors will recognize the situations. Jackson’s book not only warns readers...

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

January 19, 2022

Years ago, a friend suggested I’d like Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! because I’m a fan of police procedurals. The eighth book in the Discworld series is a police procedural with the most awkward group of police you’d ever want to meet, the...

Cat Shaming by Pedro Andrade

May 17, 2016

You may have seen Pascale Lemire’s website or book, Dog Shaming. Now Pedro Andrade follows with a book of photos called Cat Shaming in which cat owners illustrate the misdeeds of their cats. It’s not the same. And, it’s not the same for one simple...

Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics by Chris Grabenstein

January 17, 2016

Chris Grabenstein’s latest middle school book is for all of us who love libraries, kids in libraries, and everything libraries stand for. I can’t discuss Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics as passionately as I would like to without spoiling a...