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April Fool's Day - I think that this is self-explanatory! The Theme challenge is to read a book that makes you laugh - it could be a book of cartoons, a satire, or a humorous memoir as long as it tickles your funny bone.

1. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
2. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster {reread}

Signed it down ...

3. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
4. Travesties by Tom Stoppard

1. Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey Read
2. Michele Serra, Gli sdraiati Reading now

1. Nightmare Abbey � Thomas Love Peacock
2. The Time Regulations Institute - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
3. Dr. Katzenbergers Badereise � Jean Paul
4. Arcadia � Tom Stoppard

1 Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey Read
2 Michele Serra, Gli sdraiati Read

5. Something New by P.G. Wodehouse reread

5. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead � Tom Stoppard

I read a lot of Wodehouse in February so here it goes:

by Wodehouse:
6. Love Among the Chickens
7. Piccadilly Jim (reread via audiobook)
8. French Leave
9. The Politeness of Princes and Other Stories
10. Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin

by others:
11. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
12. Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrell
13. The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
14. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
15. Reginald by Saki

These were more mildly amusing than downright funny but in my opinion still qualify:
16. Jutland Cottage - Angela Thirkell
17. Bouvard and Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert
18. Frequent Hearses -Edmund Crispin

and of course:
19. Middlemarch - George Eliot
20. Persuasion - Jane Austen

I think Northanger Abbey qualifies best as Jane Austen's contribution to "April Fool" literature :D

My approach to these challenges is to read one book corresponding to each monthly challenge, during the actual month. So nothing to report, yet :)

Kevin Wilson, La famiglia Fang Read

1. The Pickwick Papers

I have read (or reread in some cases) several humorous plays:
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21. Learned Ladies
22. The School for Wives
23. Tartuffe
24. The Misanthrope

by others:
25. The Frogs - Aristophanes
26. She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith

and then the novel:
27. Changing Places

Petra wrote: "1. The Pickwick Papers"

Did you like it Petra? It's not one of my favourite Dickens ...

I really have no idea what to read for this theme! Any recommendations? I would like something easy to read and easy to get a hold off.

Charbel wrote: "I really have no idea what to read for this theme! Any recommendations? I would like something easy to read and easy to get a hold off."

Something by Terry Pratchett, maybe?

I would second Terry Pratchett. I'm either going to read something by him or The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (also highly recommended)

Heather wrote: "I would second Terry Pratchett. I'm either going to read something by him or The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (also highly recommended)"

That's a good idea, too, Heather, I loved The Hitchhiker's... haven't read that in years!!

I've been planning on rereading it for ages. It fits this challenge perfectly

I think I'll go with The Hitchhiker's Guide. Thanks guys.

Charbel wrote: "I think I'll go with The Hitchhiker's Guide. Thanks guys."

Great book that one Charbel

1) The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi

3 Kerstin Gier, In verità è meglio mentire Reading now

28. Beasts and Super-Beasts - Saki
29. Carter Finally Gets It - Brent Crawford (audiobook)
30. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
31. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
32. Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh
33. Loot - Joe Orton

34. Entertaining Mr Sloane, Funeral Games, and What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton (all very very funny!)
35. Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe - hilarious!
36. Never Too Late - mildly amusing

Leslie wrote: "34. Entertaining Mr Sloane, Funeral Games, and What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton (all very very funny!)
35. Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe..."

Coming to have some ideas. I'll look for this Porterhouse Blue then!

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. The Uncommon Reader

2) The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov

I like things that make me laugh so I have quite a few more for this theme!

37. All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare -- funny but not his best comedy
38. a couple of books (A Double Affair, Close Quarters, Love at All Ages) by Angela Thirkell -- mildly amusing but her earlier books are better
39. a few by Wodehouse (A Pelican at Blandings, The Adventures of Sally) (audiobooks) -- good stuff :)
40. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
41. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain {reread} (audiobook)
42. Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor (audiobook) -- disappointing
43. a bunch of comic plays: our group play, The Imaginary Invalid by ²Ñ´Ç±ô¾±Ã¨°ù±ð, a reread of Loot by Joe Orton and several by Gilbert and Sullivan
44. The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde
45. Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh -- loved it!

46. more comic plays by Gilbert & Sullivan -- I have now read all 14 of them!
47. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (otherwise known in English as "The Middle-Class Gentleman") and reread of The Misanthrope both by ²Ñ´Ç±ô¾±Ã¨°ù±ð