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		<title>The Teahouse of the August Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/8937/the-teahouse-of-the-august-moon</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vern Sneider]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Teahouse of the August Moon, by the American novelist Vern Sneider, is a gentle comedy about the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, where the Japanese get the better of the Americans, the Americans organise the Japanese more efficiently, and everyone learns to love each other’s way of life. My fascination with this book began because it was a beautiful fairy story with a happy ending. Later, I reread it to enjoy the tidy way that everything worked out just fine: I do like the practical organisation of happy endings. I also reread it endlessly to get to the bottom of the mysterious geisha girls: why were they such a problem? They seemed so nice, and did their own sewing. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Abandon</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7530/wild-abandon-by-joedunthorne</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Dunthorne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wild Abandon is the second novel by Joe Dunthorne, after the very successful (and funny) Submarine, which was also made into a good independent film. Submarine was about adolescence, and Wild Abandon in part is set in similar territory, reflecting the fact that Dunthorne is still a very young writer.

Wild Abandon is a comic novel set in a commune in South Wales. Kate is the adolescent daughter of the founders and leaders of the commune (Don and Freya), and Albert is her pre-adolescent younger brother. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Meringues</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6339/perfect-meringues-laurie-graham</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Graham]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-something Lizzie Partridge is a cookery “expert” on “Midlands this Morning”, a kind of poor man’s provincial version of ITV’s “This Morning”. The job hasn’t brought her the fame and success she’d hoped for, but then neither had she expected to be divorced and bringing up the teenager from hell. She endures a series of disastrous dates with a bunch of seriously weird misfits and cries on the shoulder of best friend – and Midlands This Morning’s resident astrologer – Louie, who would be the perfect husband, if only he wasn’t also her gay best friend. One day when out shopping, Lizzie sets her sights on a new man, who she’s seen putting a notice in the window of the newsagents and embarks upon a campaign to ensnare him by way of his wash boiler; the trouble is nothing seems to go smoothly for Lizzie …

I wasn’t entirely convinced by the blurb; this isn’t the kind of book I’d usually go for but I’d really enjoyed Laurie Graham’s “Life According to Lubka” and abandoned my prejudices long enough to whiz through “Perfect Meringues” in a couple of hours. This is non-challenging, easy to read, frothy and funny stuff but to leave it at that would be to do a disservice.

Graham’s spoof of daytime television is sharp and funny, with just the right level of affectionate lampooning. I particularly loved the bizarre juxtaposing of items in the show’s running order with ‘Yuppy Flu’ followed by ‘Taking the Fear out of Fish’, and on another day Lizzie is less than delighted to be squeezed between “Romanian Orphans” and “The Health Hazards of Keeping a Dog”.
From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Family Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/2246/family-planning</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karan Mahajan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing the Ahujas It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a 16-year old with a crush on a girl on the school bus, must be in want of a less embarrassing family. In the case of Arjun, his family is so personally embarrassing to him that not even his best friends know that in addition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extended Family Humour</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/comic-fiction/1028/the-ex-wives</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luckyarchers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Moggach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ex-Wives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Ex-Wives by Deborah Moggach is one of the author&#8217;s many contemporary novels.  However, she is most well known for an historical novel called Tulip Fever, set in 17th century Amsterdam. The Ex-Wives opens with the central character of Buffy (Russell Buffery), an actor, feeling old and sorry for himself. He has ex-wives, as well as other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medieval Comedy &#8211; Blackadder Style</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/comic-fiction/952/having-the-builders-in</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luckyarchers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Having the Builders In]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reay Tannahill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Although the plot is humorous fiction, the background to it will give readers an accurate idea of what it was like to live in medieval times. "
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		<title>Oxford Don Studies Essex Girl</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2010/fiction-books/comic-fiction/940/cupids-dart</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luckyarchers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cupid's Dart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Nobbs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[". . . a very amusing read, the main humour being at the expense of the academic middle classes, darts fans and the Essex girl stereotype."]]></description>
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		<title>Mission &#8216;Friends Like These&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2009/fiction-books/comic-fiction/339/mission-friends-like-these</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kingfisher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Wallace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a fan of Danny Wallace for quite a while now – ever since I read his collaboration with Dave Gorman on the book ‘Are You Dave Gorman?’ Since then Danny has gone on to write a number of books of his own, all based on mad boyish escapades which manage to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidney Kugelmass, his love affair with Emma Bovery and other funny stories</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2009/fiction-books/comic-fiction/58/sidney-kugelmass-his-love-affair-with-emma-bovery-and-other-funny-stories</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2009/fiction-books/comic-fiction/58/sidney-kugelmass-his-love-affair-with-emma-bovery-and-other-funny-stories#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Woody Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Complete Prose of Woody Allen is a bumper collection of comic fiction and essays and consists of the three Woody Allen books of humorous prose &#8211; Getting Even (1971), Without Feathers (1975), and Side Effects (1980). There are over fifty pieces of comic writing here which makes the book both great value for money [...]]]></description>
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