After an intense semester of studying everything from the Crusades and the Inquisition to the Holocaust and the (so-called) Great Leap Forward, I need some "light-hearted" stuff before my next semester starts. I'd just finished the All Things Wise and Wonderful audio book, and while waiting for The Lord God Made Them All, I popped into our tiny local Library and quickly grabbed and checked out a 2 cassette story with a bright colored cheerful-ish looking cover from the adult audio section, and continued running my errands.
Within 10 minutes though, the main character's aunt shows up and gets her husband's severed head, sealed in a Tupperware bowl, from her trunk to show her mother and nephew - I ejected it then - so much for something light-hearted and hopefully funny, I should have known right from the first sentences though because the reader didn't sound like he was smiling - stick with the kids' audio section over at the big Library unless I research the book/author.
audio books we like (some aren't appropriate for little kids who repeat things out of context at exactly the wrong moment):
*Richard Peck's A Long Way From Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, and A Season of Gifts
*Chris Heimerdinger's Tennis Shoes series
*James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small books
*Carl Hiaasen's Hoot, Flush, and Scat (Scat is the best one)
*anything by Rick Riordan
*any of John Bytheway's talks/audio books
*Jane Austin's comedies
*Shakespeare's comedies
