Book Reviews
Humor
The Lady on the Train
Book Reviews, eBooks, Fiction, Humor, Short Stories •
IR Staff •
Feb 25, 2013
Paddy Pest is a name in search of a humorous limerick, but in lieu of that he’s “an Australian crime fighter with a dubious background”, and The Lady on the Train is a follow-up to Gerry Burke’s first collection of Paddy Pest stories. Read On
A Bad Veterinarian Never Goes Hungry
Book Reviews, eBooks, Fiction, Humor, Science Fiction •
IR Staff •
Feb 12, 2013
Dr. George Washington Carver, understandably nicknamed “Peanut”, was once a physicist who created a device called the Prophet, which created a rift in spacetime and received a message from the future. Read On
The Fridgularity
Book Reviews, eBooks, Fiction, Humor, IR Approved •
IR Staff •
Feb 07, 2013
Blake Given’s web-enabled fridge has pulled the plug on the Internet, turning its owner’s life – and the whole world – upside down. Read On
Little Trouble in Tall Tree
Book Reviews, eBooks, Fiction, Humor, IR Approved •
IR Staff •
Feb 01, 2013
Little Trouble in Tall Tree is a tongue-in-cheek film-noir tale of a gangster heist – conducted and carried out by babies. Read On
No Hope for Gomez!
Book Reviews, Fiction, Humor •
IR Staff •
Jan 28, 2013
Gomez Porter inherits his antiques store from his parents. He knows little to nothing about antiques. To make ends meet, he willingly submits himself as a test subject in an experimental drug trial. Read On
Banking on Paris
Book Reviews, eBooks, Fiction, Humor, IR Approved •
IR Staff •
Fifty-year-old Bob Johnson, successful executive and the only French-speaking executive in his office, arrives in Paris one week ahead of a multi-billion dollar bank acquisition deal. Read On
Interview with a Jewish Vampire
Book Reviews, Chick-Lit, eBooks, Fiction, Humor, Paranormal •
IR Staff •
Dec 19, 2012
Rhoda is a 41-year-old Jewish journalist, who gets picked up by a Jeff Goldblum lookalike who wants her to write his life story. Read On
Goliath Gets Up
Book Reviews, eBooks, Fiction, Humor, IR Approved, Popular Fiction •
IR Staff •
Jul 31, 2012
Goliath Gets Up is about a rag-tag bunch of friends-by-circumstance who, led by a man who might have been a dragon in a previous life, decide they must do something important in order to change their lives. Read On
The Girl Who Fished With a Worm
Book Reviews, Fiction, Humor, IRDA Winners, Mystery/Thriller •
IR Staff •
Jul 09, 2012
Harry Groome’s latest book, “The Girl Who Fished With a Worm”, takes Steig Larsson’s “Dragon Tattoo” trilogy and re-imagines it as a sharp and witty who-done-it. Read On
Charlie Chan Meets Tom Swifty
Book Reviews, eBooks, Fiction, Humor, IR Approved •
IR Staff •
May 03, 2012
This little book opens with Charlie Chan sitting on a bench talking to his friend Tom Swifty, who decides to make a list of the pearls of wisdom inspired by Chan’s life and experience as a famous detective. And so begins a list of Tom Swiftys, which the author quotes Wikipedia defining as: “a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.” Read On
