My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
Seven-year-old Elsa loses her granny and best friend, then delivers apology letters to neighbours while holding onto fairy tales of Miamas and the Land of…
2,311-word summary · 10 min read
Tag: humor
209 books with this tag.
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You Are a Badass
Broke writer to coach shares money beliefs, rate raises, and daily actions with humor and homework.
2,000-word summary · 9 min read
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Precious Ramotswe opens a detective agency in Gaborone and solves small cases with tea, patience, and kindness.
2,029-word summary · 9 min read
Naked
Growing up odd in Carolina, working bad jobs, and learning to watch people closely and kindly.
2,020-word summary · 9 min read
Breakfast of Champions
A Pontiac dealer breaks down while a broke sci-fi writer brings the book that tells him others are robots.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
This Is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.
2,869-word summary · 13 min read
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
On his 100th birthday Allan Karlsson climbs out of his care home window and pockets a gangster fortune, while flashbacks trace his explosive century.
3,018-word summary · 13 min read
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
A mouse gets a cookie and turns one small favor into a whole busy day.
2,560-word summary · 11 min read
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedaris on snow days, rental houses, Dutch Christmas, and the family that made him funny.
3,098-word summary · 14 min read
The Nanny Diaries
NYU student Nan nannies four-year-old Grayer X on Park Avenue, caught between a demanding Mrs. X, an absent Mr. X, and a lonely child who needs her more than…
2,233-word summary · 10 min read
Running with Scissors
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
2,036-word summary · 9 min read
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
2,194-word summary · 10 min read
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bryson asks how we know what we know, from atoms to continents, with humor and awe.
2,134-word summary · 9 min read
Witches
Colin Hawkins's rhyming picture book teaches small readers to spot witches, flaps and all.
2,783-word summary · 12 min read
The Kiss Quotient
Stella Lane hires escort Michael Phan to practice dating and learns logic fails where touch and family press in.
2,716-word summary · 12 min read
The BFG
Orphan Sophie is taken by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows happy dreams and eats vile snozzcumbers, and helps her stop nine man eating giants.
2,812-word summary · 12 min read
Marley & Me
A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.
2,167-word summary · 10 min read
James and the Giant Peach
Lonely James escapes two cruel aunts inside a giant peach with huge insect friends, rolling to the sea and floating on gulls to New York City.
2,384-word summary · 11 min read
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Mindy Kaling recalls Boston childhood, Dartmouth comedy, New York hustle, and The Office writers room.
2,239-word summary · 10 min read
Can You Keep a Secret?
Emma blurts every secret to a stranger on a turbulent flight, then finds him running her company.
3,114-word summary · 14 min read
Better than the Movies
A rom com obsessed senior hires her annoying next door neighbor to win her crush, then finds real love is messier and kinder than any movie plot.
2,438-word summary · 11 min read
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bryson and friend Katz attempt the Appalachian Trail with blisters, bears, and laughs.
2,660-word summary · 12 min read
A Light in the Attic
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
2,998-word summary · 13 min read
The Thursday Murder Club
Four residents of Coopers Chase meet weekly to solve cold cases until developer Tony Curran is murdered and the Thursday Murder Club must work with police…
2,739-word summary · 12 min read