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Charlie Chan Meets Tom Swifty
Book Reviews, Fiction, Humor, eBooks •
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
Wife by Wednesday
Rich, titled, and charming, Blake Harrison is in need of a wife by Wednesday, so he turns to Sam Elliot who isn’t the business man he expected. Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, engaging and spunky with a voice men call 900 numbers to hear.
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Fleeting Memory by Sherban Young
Book Reviews, Fiction, Humor, Kirkus Reviewed, Mystery/Thriller, eBooks •
Kirkus Reviews •
Oct 24, 2011
A man with no memory stumbles into his own shaggy dog story. Read On
The Princess & The Penis
Book Reviews, Humor, Top 10 •
IR Staff •
Oct 17, 2011
A beautiful, chaste, and completely naive princess encounters a strange lump in her mattress. The lump soon morphs into a shape familiar to everyone but her, triggering her curiosity and her father’s greatest fears. Read On
Probo’s Lament
Book Reviews, Fiction, Humor •
IR Staff •
Feb 10, 2011
Probo, a young trumpet-playing circus elephant, leads the way in this hilarious (and slightly unhinged) satire of Chicago politics.
