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Hello APL Readers!

Welcome to Week 8 of the APL Summer Reading Challenge- Humor me! These are those books that made you LOL, or at least made you smile when you were having a bad day.

Here are a few titles to get your started:

No One Is Talking About This
The Last Black Unicorn
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir
Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
The Wangs vs. the World
Evvie Drake Starts Over
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
One for the Money
Squeeze Me
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

What books made you LOL recently?

Also, don't forget to keep logging those titles so you can get the coveted APL Summer Reading t-shirt!

Finished So Happy for You, which was kind of funny and kind of creepy!

I gotta plug The Patron Saint of Second Chances again. Unexpectedly ridiculous and reads like a movie!

Kathleen wrote: "I gotta plug The Patron Saint of Second Chances again. Unexpectedly ridiculous and reads like a movie!"

Oh this looks right up my alley. Thanks for the recommendation!

I think prepping for for the August Crafty Lovers book-club meeting will prevent me from delving into this list, but I definitely recommend The Last Black Unicorn . I love Tiffany Haddish.

I finished The Pain Eater yesterday. A strange odyssey into family dynamics and what it means to feel human.

I have read a few books on that list. The Wangs vs the World is a favorite. Evvie Drake …and Finley Donovan… were fun reads. I’m reading 2 Sedaris books now: Happy Go Lucky audio book and his collection of earlier work, The Best of Me. The oldest and the newest. I’m loving rereading stories I first read decades ago. I love his voice. I love filtering the world through his lens.

I finished "Kismet." I was hoping for more.

I thought the Last Black Unicorn was hilarious. Definitely had some laugh out loud moments for me. Another book that made me laugh was Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. It came out a while ago, but I loved it.

I love the Finlay Donovan series and Evie Drake was great too.

I finished Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow this week and was completely sucked in. I found myself thinking about it when I wasn't reading it, which is always a sign of a good book.

For this week, I finished The Wicked King by Holly Black.

Mya wrote: "For this week, I finished The Wicked King by Holly Black."

Thanks Mya! I started The Cruel Prince awhile back but only made it half way through. Glad you are enjoying the series!

All titles have been recorded up until this point :-)

I had finished the audiobook yesterday of Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality that while is a nonfiction title (apparently targeting a YA audience) has some funny elements as it explains queerness in the animal world.

While convalescing this weekend, I read In the Key of Us, and a book of poetry, Reconnaissance.

Jaybee wrote: "I love the Finlay Donovan series and Evie Drake was great too.

I finished Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow this week and was completely sucked in. I found myself thinking about it when I wasn'..."

I just read the first Finlay Donovan. Didn't realize it is a series until you told me. Thanks!

Jody wrote: "I have read a few books on that list. The Wangs vs the World is a favorite. Evvie Drake …and Finley Donovan… were fun reads. I’m reading 2 Sedaris books now: Happy Go Lucky audio book and his colle..."

If you ever get a chance to see David Sedaris in person, I highly recommend. Saw him at the Egg several years ago, and I laughed the entire evening.

Was at the beach last week and read both Finlay Donovan Is Killing It and Last Summer at the Golden Hotel while there. I preferred the latter, but both were good beach reads. I just started another book that also is looking to be a good beach read - Jameela Green Ruins Everything

For Week 7/8 I read Barkskins by Annie Proulx

I have finished no ordinary Thursday. I would recommend it.

Last night, I finished The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels . I am not nearly as far along as I need to be in To Have and to Hoax .

Just finished The Cartographers! Very imaginative concept. I didn't love it, but it did remind me how much I love maps.

I finished Our Wives Under the Sea with coffee this morning. Not overhyped in the slightest!

This morning, I finished To Have and to Hoax .

Over the weekend I read I Killed Zoe Spanos--the perfect end-of-summer teen thriller!

I woke up around 4am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep so I finished "A Feather on the Water." I enjoyed it and would recommend it. And that puts me at ten books. I am pleased to have finished the challenge just in time.