Kathie: I don’t remember reading a lot of humorous books as a kid.

I’m curious: what are your relationships with books that might labeled humorous - as kids, as adults, as a librarian and a teacher? For me, such experiences drove home just how joyful books could be, and also how reading could be a total blast, and how it could bring people together. And he had one of those infectious sorts of laughs, and so sooner or later, the whole class was laughing along with him. Lombard would laugh… and laugh and laugh and laugh. Lombard chose a wide variety of books as read alouds, but all the books contained humor to some extent. Lombard, read aloud to our class - novels like The BFG and There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom - and some of my most vivid memories are of listening to him read aloud. I still remember every book that my fourth-grade teacher, Mr. In a way, it’s what got me hooked on books and reading in the first place. Jarrett: Humor has always been important to me. Kathie: I appreciate the opportunity to be part of the conversation, however ill-advised it may be!Ĭorrina: Oh my - LOL! A pleasure to be here! Thank you, Kathie and Corrina, for bravely taking part in this ill-advised endeavor! Jarrett: A wise (and funny) person once said that “humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.” And so, today, on the book birthday of my new and hopefully humorous novel, Revenge of the EngiNerds, I thought it might be fun to ignore this sage advice and do some dissecting.

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