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Happy New Year LibriVoxers! :clap:

The staff has picked for January, thanks for your many suggestions! I hope that one of your new year's resolutions is to make many more suggestions in this thread! :wink: Anyway, please have a look at this page for the current list. You can also check out our wiki page (in a few days, when I set it up) for a plain vanilla list that contains all the staff picks for this year plus the readers!

After all these very heavy and serious books in this list (in particular the last one), what about something more light and fluffy:

HUMOUR

I am happy about all suggestions concerning books with a funny theme, side-splitting plays, even dirty humour... you get it :wink:

Especially welcome are suggestions of plays and poetry.

All languages welcome!

Thanks for your help! :D
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How about we get the ball rolling with Pomander Walk? It was originally a play, but here is in novel form. There’s plenty of farce, with daughters hiding from mothers, who are carrying on illicit “intrigues” with their neighbors, who may turn out to be someone completely different... with hiding behind lampposts and sneaking around in plain sight. Of course, it all comes to a climax at a tea party...

https://librivox.org/pomander-walk-by-louis-napoleon-parker/
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Post by Foon »

As a poetry suggestion, how about Humorous Poems by Ignatius Brennan? We completed this last year, and the poems all poke fun at people, society, and his surroundings.

https://librivox.org/humorous-poems-by-ignatius-brennan/
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There are quite a few humorous plays, too. The first two that come to mind are by the same author, Charles S. Brooks:

https://librivox.org/at-the-sign-of-the-greedy-pig-by-charles-s-brooks/
https://librivox.org/wappin-wharf-a-frightful-comedy-of-pirates-by-charles-s-brooks/

I'm hard put to decide which is the funnier of the two, really. They're both excellent. Greedy Pig is probably more purely farce. Then there is also Rollo's Wild Oat, about a man who decides to stage a "modern" production of Hamlet so that he can play the lead role:

https://librivox.org/rollos-wild-oat-by-clare-kummer/

The Physician in Spite of Himself is about a man who is taken for a doctor and must pretend to cure someone who's pretending to be ill:

https://librivox.org/the-physician-in-spite-of-himself-by-moliere/

I wish I could think of some funny stories or novels. Humorous plays are easy!

EDIT: Oh, actually, Chesterton is quite funny! I haven't read all of his, but I very much liked The Napoleon of Notting Hill!
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Thank you all!

The "frightful comedy of pirates" sounds especially intriguing! :lol:
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Post by schrm »

may i suggest children (or young adult and adult) literature?

english:
It's Your Fairy Tale, You Know
https://librivox.org/its-your-fairy-tale-you-know-by-elizabeth-rhodes-jackson/

german:
Bildergeschichten
some claim, comic style was invented by him (regardless if you see his stories as humor or horror)
https://librivox.org/bildergeschichten-von-wilhelm-busch/

also there is rather new in our catalogue Norwegische Volksmährchen
these fairytales are rather strange, are sort of driven by dry humor (at least, for adults they are).
and - totally unknown to germans - scandinavian aschenbrödel is male.
https://librivox.org/norwegische-volksmaehrchen-by-peter-christen-asbjornsen/
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The staff has picked for February, thanks for your many suggestions! Please have a look at this page for the current list. You can also check out our wiki page (as soon as I set it up... :roll: ) for a plain vanilla list that contains all the staff picks for this year plus the readers!

Next month is women's month, so the topic is kinda obvious:

WOMEN

I am happy about all suggestions concerning books about women, by women, with women... of all ages!

Especially welcome are suggestions of plays and poetry.

All languages welcome!

Thanks for your help! :D
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Post by Kitty »

definitely Lysistrata: https://librivox.org/lysistrata-version-2-by-aristophanes/
you've played the main role, so I guess you thought about it as well :mrgreen:

for comedy: The school for wives by Molière: https://librivox.org/the-school-for-wives-by-moliere/
The learned women (making fun of them heavily): https://librivox.org/the-learned-women-by-moliere/

a more tragic story: Madame Bovary, which we have in 4 languages:
https://librivox.org/frau-bovary-by-gustave-flaubert/
https://librivox.org/madame-bovary-by-gustave-flaubert/
https://librivox.org/madame-bovary-french-by-gustave-flaubert/
https://librivox.org/la-senora-de-bovary-by-gustave-flaubert/

and for non-fiction, I just finished DPLing a wonderful compilation of essays about Heroines in Fiction:
https://librivox.org/heroines-of-fiction-by-william-dean-howells/

Maybe something you might like because it deals with Japan: https://librivox.org/japanese-girls-and-women-by-alice-bacon/

And some early sexual education: https://librivox.org/private-sex-advice-to-women-by-r-b-armitage/

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The Parson's Wedding by Thomas Killigrew: https://librivox.org/the-parsons-wedding-by-thomas-killigrew/
The first play in England to be performed by an all female crew, and also recorded by an all female LV crew :)
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If you'll accept a bit of personal trumpet blowing, I'd suggest Bliss Carman's extrapolation on Sappho's verses: https://librivox.org/sappho-one-hundred-lyrics-version-2-by-bliss-carman/

... which, I feel, has a coherence which is missing from the actual fragments that we have of Sappho's poetry, but keeps the sense and emotion of them.
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I'd like to suggest 'Love's Shadow', which is the first volume in a trilogy, and very funny.
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War and Women, by Mabel Annie Stobart
https://librivox.org/war-and-women-by-mabel-annie-stobart/

True memoirs of a band of women doctors and nurses who traveled to the Balkan Peninsula during wartime to establish a war hospital. Contrary to the expectation of many men, this all-female group successfully ran a hospital that was of great service to soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
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Lots of interesting stuff coming in here. Keep it up! :thumbs:
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