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FROM: [removed]@huntleylibrary.org
REC'D: 2/10/05, 9:36 AM

I was just thinking yesterday, as I pulled my head out of a few intensive days of
fiction selecting, that there are so many "good" but GRIM fiction works out there,
and more rolling in all the time.

And oh, how our patrons welcome the humor when they can find it!

Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
Huntley Area Public Library

On 9 Feb 2005 at 14:03, [removed]@detroit.lib.mi.us wrote:

Hi, hopefully no one has brought this up, but please don't forget
humor. One customer I had the hardest time pinning down loved
anything, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it was funny.

Mary Jo Vortkamp M.L.I.S.
Knapp Branch of the Detroit Public Library
(313) 852-4283

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Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
Huntley Area Public Library
[removed]@huntleylibrary.org
Phone (847)669-5386
Fax (847)669-5439

FROM: "Kemp, Victoria" <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/10/05, 10:04 AM

Dear listmates,
Coming late to this discussion, so forgive me if these have already been
mentioned. There has recently been a thread on DorothyL (mystery mail
group) on laugh-out-loud authors. The following authors have been
mentioned, many more than once:
Carl Hiaasan
Jeff Cohen
Reginald Hill
Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitor series only)
Nancy Martin
Sarah Strohmeyer
Robert Crais (Elvis Cole series only)
Elaine Flinn
Janet Evanovich (of course)
Dean James
Sincerely
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@huntleylibrary.org [[removed]@huntleylibrary.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:24 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Humor Helps

I was just thinking yesterday, as I pulled my head out of a few
intensive days of
fiction selecting, that there are so many "good" but GRIM fiction works
out there,
and more rolling in all the time.

And oh, how our patrons welcome the humor when they can find it!

Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
Huntley Area Public Library

On 9 Feb 2005 at 14:03, [removed]@detroit.lib.mi.us wrote:

Hi, hopefully no one has brought this up, but please don't forget
humor. One customer I had the hardest time pinning down loved
anything, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it was funny.

Mary Jo Vortkamp M.L.I.S.
Knapp Branch of the Detroit Public Library
(313) 852-4283

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Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
Huntley Area Public Library
[removed]@huntleylibrary.org
Phone (847)669-5386
Fax (847)669-5439

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/10/05, 10:55 AM

Are we starting a new thread?

If so - Jennifer Crusie. An early one of hers, Anyone But You, made me laugh
til I cried. Also romance novels novels by Leanne Banks, Judi McCoy, Darlene
Gardner, Sally MacKenzie, and those quirky novels by Patricia Rice (both
historical, with a twist of magic and contemporary).

Or maybe this isn't a new thread - just a heads up from January, early
sundonw grimness?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Maria Schieda <[removed]@cromaine.org>
REC'D: 2/10/05, 12:35 PM

Ok, this might be a bit quirky, but don't forget Christopher Moore's
books. I have been caught chortling out loud in the library lunch room
while reading his books. Forgive me if he has already been mentioned!
(That short term memory thing ....)

Maria E. Schieda
Adult Services Library
Cromaine District Library

Kemp, Victoria wrote:

>Dear listmates,
>Coming late to this discussion, so forgive me if these have already been
>mentioned. There has recently been a thread on DorothyL (mystery mail
>group) on laugh-out-loud authors. The following authors have been
>mentioned, many more than once:
>Carl Hiaasan
>Jeff Cohen
>Reginald Hill
>Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitor series only)
>Nancy Martin
>Sarah Strohmeyer
>Robert Crais (Elvis Cole series only)
>Elaine Flinn
>Janet Evanovich (of course)
>Dean James
>Sincerely
>Viccy Kemp
>The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [removed]@huntleylibrary.org [[removed]@huntleylibrary.org]
>Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:24 AM
>To: Fiction_L
>Subject: Humor Helps
>
>I was just thinking yesterday, as I pulled my head out of a few
>intensive days of
>fiction selecting, that there are so many "good" but GRIM fiction works
>out there,
>and more rolling in all the time.
>
>And oh, how our patrons welcome the humor when they can find it!
>
>Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
>Huntley Area Public Library
>
>
>
>On 9 Feb 2005 at 14:03, [removed]@detroit.lib.mi.us wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>Hi, hopefully no one has brought this up, but please don't forget
>humor. One customer I had the hardest time pinning down loved
>anything, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it was funny.
>
>
>Mary Jo Vortkamp M.L.I.S.
>Knapp Branch of the Detroit Public Library
>(313) 852-4283
>
>......................................................................
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>
>Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
>Huntley Area Public Library
[removed]@huntleylibrary.org
>Phone (847)669-5386
>Fax (847)669-5439
>
>
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--
Maria E. Schieda
Adult Services Librarian
Cromaine District Library

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

FROM: "Margaret Daley" <[removed]@lincoln.library.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/10/05, 12:52 PM

A lot of our patrons like Janet Evanovich. Her main character,
Stephanie Plum has many adventures as a Fugitive Apprehension Agent.

Margaret
Lincoln Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of [removed]@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:38 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Humor Helps

Are we starting a new thread?

If so - Jennifer Crusie. An early one of hers, Anyone But You, made me
laugh
til I cried. Also romance novels novels by Leanne Banks, Judi McCoy,
Darlene
Gardner, Sally MacKenzie, and those quirky novels by Patricia Rice (both

historical, with a twist of magic and contemporary).

Or maybe this isn't a new thread - just a heads up from January, early
sundonw grimness?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/11/05, 1:08 PM

>From: Maria Schieda <[removed]@cromaine.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Humor Helps
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:25:54 -0500
>
>Ok, this might be a bit quirky, but don't forget Christopher Moore's books.
> I have been caught chortling out loud in the library lunch room while
>reading his books. Forgive me if he has already been mentioned! (That
>short term memory thing ....)
>

Some of the funniest prose I have ever read can be found in the many
(factual) books of Gerald Durrell. Most focus on his experiences while
collecting exotic animals for zoos, and later running his own zoo on the
Isle of Jersey, but there are also several about his family in the years
they lived on Corfu. Take these in to work and I guarantee your giggles
will attract some weird looks!

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