{"id":2124,"date":"2013-07-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2013-07-17T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:36:06","slug":"funny-you-should-ask-humorous-fiction-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"Funny you should ask – humorous fiction favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Searching for some light-hearted summer reading at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore?<\/a><\/p>\n

Take along this BooksYALove list of favorite funny books, and cool off with a good laugh! Click any title to see my full recommendation of the book. Review copies and cover images courtesy of their respective publishers.
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\"book<\/a> \"book<\/a>Classic baseball comedy routine teammates are just wild in Who’s On First?<\/a><\/em> by Abbott & Costello.<\/p>\n

Pantalones, TX: Don’t Chicken Out!<\/a><\/i> – can Chico Bustamante stay ahead of the chicken-shack-driving sheriff and conquer the giant bucking chicken?<\/p>\n

\"book<\/a> \"book<\/a>Enjoy Hakata Soy’s first middle school term in space as he enrolls in Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity<\/em><\/a> – time for dinosaur riding lessons and fireball tournaments!<\/p>\n

Then return to Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry<\/em><\/a> for another semester of fireball tournaments and missing extra hearts – and mystery to solve.<\/p>\n

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More Dave Roman (Astronaut Academy<\/i><\/a>) as he teams up with John Green <\/i>(the artist one) to create TeenBoat!<\/i>\u00a0<\/a> Imagine “the angst of being a teen, the thrill of being a boat!” – yes, it’s that funny.<\/p>\n

When music-loving aliens realize they’re violating Earth copyright laws and have run up a bill bigger than the universe, things get a bit out of hand in Year Zero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"book<\/a>\"book<\/a>An orbiting maternity home for unwed mothers is attacked by aliens (really cute aliens!) and things aboard the Mothership<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 get all kinds of crazy.<\/p>\n

Set Shakespeare’s comedy The Tempest<\/em>\u00a0 in a modern shopping mall during a blizzard, add some memorable characters and a robbery, and you have a most Tempestuous<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 and wacky tale.<\/p>\n

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\"book<\/a>\"book<\/a> Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to create a new candy for the world’s sweetest contest? But The Candymakers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 must solve a mystery before everything goes sour.<\/p>\n

As a teen spy goes undercover in a ritzy private school to keep the organization’s cover from being blown, she doesn’t anticipate love among the complications in Also Known As<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"book<\/a>\"book<\/a>Yes, you can enter the lottery at 16 in Great Britain, but Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 is more of a how-not-to than a financial guide!<\/p>\n

Being able to hear cats talk seems like such a boring talent until Nat uses it to capture a kidnapper and snag a movie part after all in Cat Girl’s Day Off<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Searching for some light-hearted summer reading at your local library or independent bookstore? Take along this BooksYALove list of favorite funny books, and cool off with a good laugh! Click any title to see my full recommendation of the book. Review copies and cover images courtesy of their respective publishers. **kmm Classic baseball comedy routine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,19,41,62],"tags":[22,55,5,44,46,39,31,15,35,3,53,8],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books","category-fiction","category-paranormal","category-science-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-books","tag-coping","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-love","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}