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Laugh Out Loud Funny
December 20, 2007
Every now and then I need a book to make me laugh out loud. You know, the kind that you tell your friends, who've also read it, the funny passage and you all start laughing so hard that you (accidently) pee your pants.
Janet Evanovich has mastered that with her Stephanie Plum series.
Whenever I get together with my mom, sisters and nieces, we inevitably start talking Stephanisms. It goes something like this: "Remember when Stephanie and Lula tried to apprehend that fat guy and he was naked and covered with vaseline and they couldn't grab onto him?" "Or, how about when Grandma Mazur was wearing hot pants in a band and farted and then said, 'Who stepped on a duck?' " "How about when the taxidermied cat exploded in the car and there was fur stuck on the dashboard?" "What about when Stephanie was blindfolded and tied up, but still managed to burn down the funeral parlor?" "And don't even get me started on what happens to her cars."
Well, I got an email a while ago from Lauren Naefe at
HarperCollins about some videos that
Meg Cabot did. Now I know that Meg wrote the hugely popular
Princess Diaries and I remember reading
The Boy Next Door and recommending it to others.
So I checked out the videos.
Beauty Tips (I could totally identify with it),
On Writing (it helped me figure out why I never could write a book...you actually have to sit down and write it),
Little Women (I guess I read the wrong version) and
Tabloid Wars (my favorite...I actually laughed out loud when Meg started doing her own sound effects).
After watching these hilarious videos, I knew I had to read her latest book,
Big Boned.
Heather Wells is a "plus size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometimes sleuth." When she finds her unlikable boss murdered, Heather needs to find the killer or be one of the suspects herself. Complicating her life even more is a vegan math professor who wants to ask her a "special question," her ex-con dad who wants her back in show biz on a kiddie show and her hot landlord who didn't want to be her "rebound beau."
Growing up I was convinced I was big boned. I mean, if I was "bigger" then the rest of the girls, then I must be "big boned." Made sense to me, so I could really identify with Heather. One of my favorite parts of the book (that I've already repeated to everyone I know) is when Heather wants to prove she has things in common with the math professor and offers to run with him in the morning. When they start, she tells him to run ahead and she'll catch up. Heather begins ok, but within a few steps she's not so sure:
"...I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overreact or anything, but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free. Is that even possible? I mean, could my uterus just come sliding out?"
This cracked me up. I'm not a runner, but every once in a while I'll jog a few steps just so I feel like I could run, if I wanted to, and I kept imagining my uterus slipping out (ok, maybe not
my uterus because I don't have one any more, but if I did have one it would really be funny).
How about you? Any books make you "laugh out loud?"
Bottom line: "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." ~Woody Allen
Posted by Barbara Vey on December 20, 2007 | Comments (21)
