The Book Lover'S Joke Book Av Alex Johnson

How many crime writers does it take to change a light bulb?<br> A. Two. One to screw it most of the way in, and the other to give it an astonishing twist at the end.<br><br> I slipped over in the library this morning. It was the non-friction section.<br><br> Peter: What are you doing in that wardrobe?<br> Lucy: Narnia business<br><br><b>Joke books have a long publishing history dating back to the ‘Philogelos’ from ancient Greece and ‘Facetiae’ of the 15th century.</b><br><br> But while there are themed joke books on everything from cats to lawyers, there have surprisingly been few with a literary theme.<i> The Book of Book Jokes </i>includes a huge range of comic material concentrating exclusively on the themes of books, reading, libraries, bookshops, and the literary life.<br><br> As well as one-liners, puns, knock-knock jokes, and shaggy dog stories, it will feature sections including gravestones, book titles, jokes in acknowledgements/ copyright/index pages, literary hoaxes, literary snark, and authors’ in-jokes in novels, as well as sections such as Charles Dickens’s humorous fake book decorations. It will also feature the favorite jokes of well-known writers, and a selection of literary cartoons.