Confessions of an it girl

Ok so this chick, Jan whose name is really pronounce Yahn, goes to this hoity toity school in Brooklyn New York. her Best friend was named one of New Yorks top ten it girls for the year, ya know, like people to watch, cuz they are cool or something like that. So anyways, that causes a lot of crap for her, because she always kind of feels like her friend is better than her and that she is the embarrassing less successful one in the bunch. She makes all these mistakes with boys and other little things in her daily life that she, doesn't think are funny, but as a reader it is hilarious. and I also can relate, actually the character and I have a lot of similarities, I mean, not the fact that we both live in Brooklyn or anything, but just her personality, and making stupid mistakes all the time. She is also a bit of an inner drama queen, such as myself, making a big deal out of all the stupid junk she does(on an almost hourly basis). also there are some funny puns and interesting sarcasm spoken by her friend. i enjoy this book, only book i have since like the 8th grade, so it must been good then.(by the way, I probably sound like an idiot in this post, my appologies)

Brittany Beaulieu

Well.....The irony is they always talk about a butt. The sacarcasim is how his butt flys off of his body all the time. This book so far is basically about how this kid Zack Freemen's butt comes undetached all the time and roams around the city. It's not only his butt that comes off his body. There are also other people that have the same problem. The butts plan to get all together and form one big huge fart by building up a large amount of methane gas and put it in a bumcano. WHich is like a canyon but its a butt canyon. He later on meets the butt hunter.

Kayla Petty- "We're just like you, only prettier"

This book is basically a what-not-to-do when trying to move away from the South. The irony is the truth about how Southerners actually do act so much different than us in Iowa. There are five parts in the book that are based off of many different aspects of life such as; "The Southern Family, Kids, Couples Therapy: Southern Style, The Southern Woman, and The Gravy on the Gritz." There is a great amount of sarcasim. My favorite chapter so far is "Stop watching your Plasma TV and start giving plasma." This chapter explains a quick way to make money. Another chapter explains how schooling was a very important part of like as well. The best thing about winning the lottery according to this Southern Belle's brother was, "it can provide up to $4,500 for college and could buy you lots of beer and hot girls." Some of the jokes are dry so you have to think about them or read on but when you get them they are really funny. The irony is great throughout the whole book so far. I am anticipating what they have to say above the Southern Woman.

A Walk in the Woods

This book is for the most part about how a guy ( bill bryson) decides to one day go on a hike on the Appalachian Trail that stretches over 2,160 miles. He says he wants to do it to reconnect with nature and the beauty of the American landscape after being out of the country for several years. The trip takes a while to plan out, so the whole time that he is waiting he researches about the AT. Then he explains all the diseases like schistosomiasis, ehrlichiosis, and lymes disease and how horrible each and every one is and chances of getting them. Next he goes on about his fear of bears and he tells a few horror stories about them too. He starts buying his hiking gear which is very expensive because he has to plan out about 6 months of his time. For the most part he sounds very sarcastic because he explains almost all the worst case scenarios you can ever think of and how horrible it will be carrying around a 40 pound pack every single day up hills and mountains. At the same time though he says it giving all the facts and details and statistics on each thing, pointing out obious flaws in the world. Even after talking about all of that he still manages to get one of his very old friends to come on the trip with him, Stephan Katz. So both are in thier late thirties and bill points out right away that neither of them are in good shape for this journey but both willing start to trudge on the trail. After about 2 miles Katz had fallen way behind and Bill had to stop from exhaustion, explaining how just that morning they had talked about how they would walk 8.9 miles by lunch and 16.8 by supper. Then they continue at a much slower pace with little exagerated stories usually coming from Katz and witty humor between the two of them. Not to mention Bill likes to look up all kinds of random things about the trail then he will give you hard facts about these things and then make fun of them and you cant help but think he might be right!

24 girls in 7 days Kendra Johnson

The book starts out with dorky, Jack Grammar, talking to one of his best friends, Percy. Natalie and Percy are Jack’s best friends, or only friends pretty much. It starts with Jack asking this girl, Pamela, to “the prom”. She kind of made it sound like a yes and then he started going on and on and turned the almost yes into a no. ( Jack goes on and on in the book about how his whole life he used to think prom is so magical and they dreams come true on this special night) Percy and Natalie use this as a sign that they need to help their friend, Jack, get a prom date. After all, they were his best friends so why wouldn’t they try to help him. Natalie and Percy put up a personal ad on the school website that is a little poem about Jack asking for a prom date. At their school no one used the personal ad so when they put this up on the website everyone could see it. Jack found out about the ad, and was furious that someone would do this even as a joke. But within hours, there were responses to the ad. Natalie and Percy told Jack the next day that they had about 150 girls respond to the ad that wanted to go to prom with him, or at least get to know him. He was mad at first, but then it got him thinking about actually taking one of the girls to prom. So, Natalie and Percy came up with these fabulous ideas to have him go out on dates with 24 of the girls in 7 days and on the last day he would have to choose his prom date by midnight. Jack isn’t too fond of the idea, he’s only had one “girlfriend” and that only lasted about a half hour because they met at the airport and when she was leaving for her plane she gave Jack a kiss before she left. Jack didn’t have hardly any experience with girls, as you can tell. He really did’t have a choice when girls started showing up at his house for surprise dates because he wouldn’t answer his phone half the time. A couple girls even went as far as writing his name across their chests’. Throughout the book someone kept instant messaging him under the name fancy pants and giving him advice on which girls he should actually be going out with. All the girls he kept meeting and hanging out with seemed to be going good, he even got a couple more kisses. When he went on his date with Laura Gliden, and he even got really drunk, which was something hes never done. He was worried about his kissing, so he told fancy pants about his problems and she told him to practice with a good friend. So, he told Natalie and she was okay with helping a friend, even if it meant kissing him for a couple hours until he go the hang of it. Natalie showed Jack where to put his hands and told him to say “olive” when he kissed because that mimicked the motions you need to make with your lips and tongue. After he kind of got the hang of it, he started saying other things like; states, presidents, foods, places, and anything else he could think of. Jack Grammar was the talk of the school with everyone knowing about the ad, and the 24 girls in 7 days. More girls kept trying to come onto him because of his new popularity. Some girls would even get mad when he would reject them and act like they were way better then him. Jack didn’t under stand why these girls would act like that when their the ones that asked him out.

I found this book very humorous so far. Jack’s character is funny because of how awkward things are, like when he tries to talk to girls or when hes actually on a date with one. It relates to people a lot because while your reading it you feel how awkward or funny things are as the author portrays them to be.

Ashley Edwards The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

I'm reading The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid which takes place in 1950's Des Moines Iowa. In the begining he relates almost everything to being a kid in the 50's in Des Moines and how American everything was and how everything was better in Des Moines, but he does it in a funny way and he talks about the events that happened in the 50's in a humorous way. He's very sarcastic about his past and refers to everything as Kid World and how everything is much different in Kid World then in the "Real World" His flash backs are taken place in his childhood. "We used to amuse ourselves by challenging her to supply our dates of birth or, if that proved to taxing, the seasons." This is a quote I picked because I think he is funny to get his point of veiw across hell put two opposite things together like how his mom would forget their birthdays but compare it to how she forgot her son didnt like cottage cheese because of Uncle Dee. Whenever Bill is in a situation he doesn't like he switches into his alter ego Thunderbolt Kid which is funny because he thinks he has special powers and its funny to read Bill's story then to read the Thunderbolt Kid's side.

"Flush" by Carl Hiaasen.

"I found myself studying the shape of his head, which reminded me of an extra large walnut.He wore his air in a buzz cut, and you could see shiny lumps and crinkles in the skin of his scalp."I guess the only humorous thing in this book is that their specific in detail.Otherwise there really is no humor,or is just that I don't get it.

Well the main characters in this book is Noah and Abbey. Their dad is in jail for sinking a ship called the Coral Queen .Paine (Noah and Abbey's father) believed that the ship was dumping sewage out into the open waters he couldn't do anything about it because he didn't have evidence, so his only choice was to sink the ship, that's why he is in jail. Then later they found out that Noah and Abbey decides to take matters into their own hands and goes out and tries to find evidence to get the ship shut down. Jasper Jr. was Dusty's son and a bully to Noah, continuously bullies Noah, giving him a black eye and spits on his face. Of course the boat was soon re opened and afloat. They wanted to get "Lice" (an old worker from the coral queen) to give a witness statement, but he wanted money. "Noah,I think I could help you." that's what Shelly(Lice's ex-fiancée) said to Noah. Lice soon went missing and Shelly believes that he was kidnapped because she found blood stains in her jeep. Meanwhile, Noah and Abbey are worrying about their mom because she was talking about getting a divorce, ever since Paine gotten himself arrested Dorra (Paine's wife) has been very angry. In the book it also mentions Pain'es dad Bobby who they say died in Colombia and they can't get his body home because there was a problem in the paperwork.I think that that's an important thing to know, maybe it is a twist in the story later.The part where I stop was when Paine escapes from jail and came home.

I thought the book had a lot of interesting plots and twists that keeps a readers a attention. I haven't read anything that I thought was funny yet.

-Tram Dinh

Jeff Frahm

Breakfast of Champions is a humerus novel about Kilgore Trout, a science-fiction novelist, and Dwayne Hoover, a well-to-do pontiac dealer. Chapter one basically just introduces to two main characters of the novel. It then goes on to tell how Dwayne ended up going to an asylum and how Kilgore became obsessed with the notion that ideas can cause disease along with curing it. Chapter two then goes on to tell the living conditions of both Dwayne and Kilgore. Instead of telling about the rest of the chapters I'll tell about the kind of humor that is used in the novel and maybe a few examples of how it is used. In chapter 5, there is really great use of satire and disruption of the social norm when Kilgore talks about trying to sleep in the movie theater when he got to New York. This is funny in and of itself but what is hilarious about it is his reasoning which was "sleeping in movie houses was the sort of thing that dirty old men do." In a way I can see a sort of sarcasm in the tone of how he says it. In chapter 7 in the bathroom of the movie houses, there was something written on the wall that said "what is the purpose of life". Kilgore wanted to respond to this, "To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool." This is funny because of his kind of use of a snarky tone.

Joe Chavez

The book I chose was Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Craddle. The book revolves around the main character he identified himself as Jonah, there is no real description except that he is a male. He is an author writing a book over the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, but the topic isn't the bomb it's over one of the creators of the bomb Felix Hoenikker and how he spend his day on the day of the bomb. He is described as a different kind of a person he has a family but he is like a child depending on his daughter to take care of the whole family, the mother died. Well the humor starts off slow with more of a satirical humor on religion, Jonah refers back to the book of Bokonon in most of his daily thoughts, he also retrospects when he was christian. Bokonoism is described as a religion created on lies. There is many aspects to bokonism he intrudces many parts of it like karass which is a team because religion is split up into groups in bokonisim. I feel like he is using this made up religion to show how people that follow religion strictly sound and act ridicuolous. There are many instenses when he brings up God to a person and they clearly over react to what he has said. The next humorous component of my novel is that of the fact that the Hoenikker family is the furthest to normal that you could think of. First of all the Father he is a child but also a genious he would come in contact with something and he would focus and look at it in a different way. The oldest the daughter was described as reserved never had a boyfriend didn't have any friends and played the clairinet. The oldest son Franklin is a figure head for a communist government on an island not so far from cuba. The youngest son is a midget with a russian bride double his age. Jonah also comes into contact with collegues which lead to humorous situations, he is just trying to get information for his book and the twist and turns have lead him to meet his not so normal family.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy nikalas king

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a story about Arthur Dent and his friend ford perfect who is an alien and in the first two they are making of how slow humans and how humans are fascinated they are with digital clocks and how angry people on planet earth and how dull and boring this planet is while there are ways to solve this problems all the people rather mess with other things that wont make them any more happy or sad. they talk about how Arthur Dent has a problem because they are to destroy his house they tell him the bypass must be built that there was a time to protest by it has passed even thought he just found out yesterday and to find the papers about the bypass he had to go in to the basement and in the bottom of the cabinet meanwhile his friend ford is telling him that none of it will matter because the world will be ending in a few minutes ford convinces to go for a drink tell him that he is an alien and he has a book call "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and that the world is going to be destroyed he believes when spacecrafts show up ford hitch hikes off the plant and there a bit of irony here because the alien about to destroy the world say the say thing that the people destroy Arthur's house the earth was also being destroy because they need to make a by pass in space.

- Ariel Hudson

The book is kinda funny, but the book is all over the place. The book is writen like a kid in grade school wrote it, the book is good but the humor is funny in a little kids way. The book pictuces are abotu the funny thing in the book like the picture on 19, the book is not as funny as the title of the book the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian. the book is funny like a little kid comedy which is not really funny but if u think little kids are funny.

The bio of this book is the the little boy is sick like has health problems. he is also a budding artist and hopes to use his work to connect people. He has a hard life and his family does not have much money so he gets picked on and when he went to school, but now he gets homeschool now which is a good thing but he does not have many friends, his best friend name is tough guy Rowdy.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is about two men, Hunter S. Thompson and his "lawyer" Dr. Gonzo; who's goal in this story is to basically endure and recommend drugs to Thompson. With his Chevy convertible, and a trunk full of illegal narcotics, they set out their journey into the desert to reach Las Vegas. This story is quite hilarious so far. With all the drug induced encounters, he goes through he ll trying to complete his job which is to be a journalist for the upcoming event, "The Mint 400," which is a motorcycle race. Never accomplishing but never giving up, their quest to write this column is becoming quite a conundrum because they are creating havoc making people to get upset, and even get violent against them making them fail so far.

This book is quite comical due to the large amount of dry humor in it. With their hallucinogenic journey, they come across many enemies that interfere with their goal which is to live his own idea of the"American Dream" and have an amazing time at the same time. This book describes in great detail what he is undergoing during the story; involving his partner in crime, and his intoxicating state, making this story a must to read.

Holes Tiffany Fisher

In the book Holes Stanley Yelnats the third is a normal student that is bullied in high school until one day after he missed his bus due to him being bullied he has to walk home. As he is walking home he gets hit by a pair of shoes that "came out of the sky." The cops stopped him and they ended up being Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston, which he was donating to charity. So he went to court and they told him he has to choices either jail or Camp Green Lake, but because he has never been to camp he decided he was going to go there. His dad and his grandpa blamed everything on their "No-good-ditty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather." They say because he did not return that pig to Madame Zeroni, that their whole family will be curse for eternity, and they believe that because his dads inventions never seemed to work out. There are characters that have nicknames for each other. For example Alan is squid, X-Ray, Jose is magnet, Theodore is Armpit,and Ricky is Zigzag. They get these names when you are accepted as one of them. Stanleys nickname is Caveman.There is one other person but he does not speck so they call him Zero. Stanley on the other hand can get him to talk. They were in a meeting when they first heard Zero talk. They have to dig five inch holes a day. There councilor said that it builds character.
I believe that this book has some humor in it. I think that the nick names add a lot of humor into the book, because they have the nicknames for a reason. For example Ray which they call him X-Ray has bad vision and can not see that well. Theodore is armpits because every time he lifts his arms, he makes people sick with the smell of his armpits. I also find it funny how they blames everything on the "No-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing Great-great-grandfather." I think that it is funny that they think that the stuff that is happening to them is because of him. For example Stanleys dad is trying to invent something that will make the shoes smell better and last longer, but he seems to not be able to accomplish that so he blames it on him. Also Stanley blames his great-great-grandfather for the shoes "falling out of the sky," and getting him into trouble. So I believe that humor plays a big role in this book.

Can You Keep a Secret?--Emily Jensen

The Book Can You Keep a Secret? starts off with the narrartor, Emma, thinking a whole bunch of random thoughts while she is at a meeting representing Pather Corporation, in London. When she tries to impress Glen Oil's head guy she ends up having a Fizzy cranberry-flavored drink explode his shirt and his papers, which did not make him happy. So that pretty much ruined any chances of them wanting to finialize the promotion they were doing together. After that she had her flight back home, which she had just now realized she is scared of flying. So, to help calm her down she had a few drinks before the flight; she ended up being half drunk by the time she got on the plane. To make things worse, the plane started having very bad turbulence problems, which really freaked her out. So, she ended up just blirted out all her thoughts and secrets to the gentlemen sitting next to her. She was saying things like "I've never done anything to make my parents proud of me," and "...sometimes I water her stupid spider plant with orange juice, just to serve her right..." In the end they ended up landing safely, and she felt stupid for thinking they were all going to die and she told a complete stranger all these things about her. Then that next week she was in for a real surprise. At her work their inventor of the whole company, Jack Harper, was visiting the company. To her surprise it was the same guy she had told everything to on the plane. But to summarize all this part he remembered her and he started to become interested in her but she was dating this other guy, but over that week Jack would try to get chances to talk to Emma and he would always hint towards something that she had said in the plane. The last day that he was supposed to be in town they had an intense talk in the elevator and he questioned why she was even with the other guy and they got to a small arguement and then he got off the elevator. Later that day she broke it off with her boyfriend and then Jack found out and ended up staying til the next monday so he could talk to Emma and then he asked her out on a date.

I find this book pretty humorous because, Emma is just an ordianary young adult that has all this stuff happen to her. She can't make her parents proud, she doesn't hold a stable job for very long, tells the head boss EVERYTHING, almost gets caught having sex in the work place with herboyfriend, and then like the dumps her boyfriend. And where i left off she was just getting into the car with her multimillionare date.

Franzis Rios

" Libby has used the last of my sanitary towels to make hammocks for her dolls". In the book titled Angus, thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging the narrator has a journal that she writes in many times a day at different times. She has a younger sister in which her name is Libby. Libby can be very annoying and like you notices in the first sentence of my post she likes to experiment with things that aren't what they are used for. She has a very interesting looking cat which she had to beg her mother onto letting her bring home. Angus is the cat name, now Angus likes to fight with the neighbors small dog, making the neighbors better known as "Mr. and Mrs. Next Door not like Angus. though out the story so far it does not mention the narrators name. She really wants a boy friend and has many questions on how her first kiss would be. Now the char actor looks up to a teen magazine that she reads. She feel that she is very ugly and that no guy would want her. She has a what she calls "Sex God" that speaks to her which simply refers to when ever she thinks about kissing a boy or talking to a boy that she likes. This book is very interesting just because you get to read about things that a teen would write in a journal and her emotions yet humorous ways.

Sandra Salazar

when you first pick up this book i know you must think "i dont need a book to learn about guy." but in reality this book is actually pretty good and shows you many things you may not know yet. the back of this book basically gives it all. It describes what this book is about and how guys are not really that confusing, as we girls think they are. In reality were the one's confusing ourselves.

In this book the Author Greg Behrendt gives many women's advice on guys that are not worth their time. He says that guys rather make up excuses to why he cant call you or see you, than to straight up tell you he is not that into you. He explains that many women's set up excuses for why guys wont call them or see them, and they never actually take the time to ralize their just waisting their time and beauty on a loser that does not even want them.

Here are some examples from the book;

In chapter one Greg open's Liz eyes on man. she tries to make rational excuses for the men that wont call her or wont try to see her again, but Greg lets her and many other women know that as soon as they quit setting up excuses for this man, this man will dissapear out of their lives and they will have the chance to find a better guy that will be interested in them, and that will treat them how they deserve to be treated. He points out the lies that man use on the ladies just to try to avoid them; such as he is too busy, he is going througgh struggles, or that they dont want to ruin their friendship, etc. He points out guys in his lies, and many women's try to make excuses for this man just to keep hearing from them or seeing them. He makes girls see that their worth more than a guy that avoids you makes you feel like.
The humor in this book is good. This book hause made me laugh with grreg's sarcasm; like when in this part it says " so on this particular day, one of the ladies pipes up with, "Greg you're a guy." she is very observant, this one, for i am a guy." This kind of sarcasm had me laughing.

In chapter three Greg talks about how girls assume that if a guy wants to hang out, he is immediatly trying to date her. But on many occasions the girls take things the wrong ways and try to make excuses for thing, just so in their heads this love affair (thats not even happening) plays off right. I have only read first half of this book, and i must say i cant put this book down. Its humor makes me laugh like no other book before and the main message on guys has kind of taught me some things. My next post should approach very soon

Franzis rios

Funny in Farsi Anthony Simenson

This story makes fun of the new student in the class that knows a little english and doesn't understand most of what everyone is telling her. One day her mom went to school with her to see what its like and what to see what she goes though everyday at school. Her parents always do things that make her look funny, and she tries to tell them that, but they don't listen to her. One day during school her teacher asked them where Iran was at on the map, and none of them knew and the teacher pointed at a country and the mom just shook her head yes that is were it is and she just did that to make it look like she knew it all the time she just didn't want anyone else to know.

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Hannah Snyder)

Al Capone Does My Shirts is a novel that takes place on Alcatraz in 1935. Known by many Alcatraz held some of the most dangerous convicts such as Al Capone, the Birdman, and Machine gun Kelly. The main character, Matthew Flanagan, nicknamed 'Moose' due to his giant stature, is 15 when his family moves to Alcatraz due to his father's job as a prison guard. Moose is thrown into a whirlwind of new experiences and social drama.

Since the book is in a first person view, told from Moose, much of the humor revolves around his reactions to the stimulus. Other parts of the humor also is with his sister Natalie, her age is currently unknown, but their mother refers to her as being 10. Anyway... Moose is stuck with his sister after her rejection from a school, which doesn't seem too bad, except she has a psychological disorder, or so her family thinks. Being stuck with his sister brings more humor to the story, with her tagging along, the other Alcatraz kids find her strange, and weird, making it harder for Moose to make friends. Piper, the Warden's daughter, doesn't make things easier for Moose either, she drags Natalie and him into a whirlwind of trouble. He receives a warm welcome from the Warden when he is called in his house for a personal meeting. Here he is basically threatened by the Warden as he lays down the law for Moose.

First rule of Alcatraz: Don't about Alcatraz.

Unfortunately for Moose, Piper breaks this rule on the first day of Moose's arrival to the new school. Following her lead, he also breaks the rule, and upon breakage, Piper is able to blackmail Moose into helping her with a secret laundry service. On the island one of the convicts jobs is to wash the laundry. So, in an attempt to make some side money Piper devised a plan involving Moose much to his dismay. Currently in the midst of the book Piper's plan is working, including her blackmail against Moose.

Here is an example of the humor Natalie's disorder:

Moose is trying to get Natalie to change out of her bathing suit and into a dress so they can go outside to meet Piper.

I'm thinking I'm wasting my breath when Natalie starts to take off her suit, I walk out of my room and close the door.

"All done, Nat?" I ask when I hear her come out.

When I turn around she's standing in the living room totally naked

I can feel my whole face get red. Even the tips of my ears burn. I don't want to see my sister naked. "No! You can't do that!" I run to the front window and yank the drapes closed.

-Page 92-

This is just one of the many humorous parts of the story where Moose must struggle with his sister to do simple things.

Zombie Butts From Uranus

This is a brief summary of the first part of the novel.

To start the story off Zach is in a butt fighting simulator which he fails. After Failing the simulator Zach leaves his butt fighting academy to head home to his grandma. On his way home he runs into a psychic who can tell your future by feeling your butt. The "bum-feeler" tells him he will be the savior of man kind and gives him three pieces of advice, save the world with tomato sauce, do the hokey-pokey, and don't fear the brown hole.

Meanwhile Zach's scientist parents (James and Judi) got a sample bum from Uranus because they found out they are what make up the planets rings. while preforming and experiment they dissect the butt and notice that it regenerates itself!!! Shorty after they notice an object crash into Uranus and explodes. The explosion wakes up all the butts on the planet and the butt on board with James and Judi. The butt attaches itself to James' real butt, this causes James to attempt to eat his wife. Judi takes the butt off and then it attaches over her bum, James wakes up and snatches the butt and disposes of it. The two fly back down to Uranus to investigate the crash.

And this is where I leave you hanging till next time.