Humor Me- the.book.chat

Dear Authors, 

Humor me. Don’t just make me laugh, but make me snort and shoot Dr. Pepper out my nose simultaneously. - This is my court and you are my jester. Entertain me. Show me that you did not merely score high in your creative writing course, but you also have a personality.  I implore you, PLEASE make me laugh!

Full disclosure, I do not read near as much as I should or as much as I would like. My personal library is shabby in comparison to most mildly avid readers. 

The book:

I recently read Magical Thinking by Augusten Borroughs. Perhaps it is because its so fresh in my mind that I am picking it as my Funny book/memoir.

Augusten is a hilarious, self-loathing, gay man whom I now adore and would love to spend an entire day people watching & making snide comments with. Magical Thinking is not a fiction book, rather a memoir of his life. He takes a ton of essays and crams them into a book and somehow, it works. The way his mind works, the way he will share thoughts that some readers (not myself) might find off-putting, only makes me want to read more from him. He appeals to my dark side and makes me laugh out loud. He is my kind of author. Magical Thinking is worth reading just for the story of Debby the dwarfish house cleaner and the 'roid rage chapters alone.  See, you find this intriguing now, don’t you. My job here is done :)

"I myself am made entirely of flaws 

stitched together with good intentions." 

Surely you've seen this quote on Pinterest.
Now read the book and see why he says it.

 

 

I hear he is compares to David Sedaris a lot. So, 

I managed to get my hands on a copy of When You Are Engulfed In Flames & plan on starting it tonight. I'm pretty excited!

I’ll let ya know how it goes. 

Linking up with  -

Sweet Green Tangerine