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SheriC

Portable Magic

Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.

Currently reading

A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Whisper Network
Chandler Baker
Progress: 54 %
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Progress: 28 %
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Carolyn Keene
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Gary Raisor, Richard Chizmar, Al Sarrantonio, Avram Davidson
Progress: 70/512 pages
Leading Change
John P. Kotter
Peanuts Classics
Charles M. Schulz
Progress: 66 %
The Bungalow Mystery
Carolyn Keene
Progress: 192/192 pages
The Bungalow Mystery #3
Carolyn Keene
Progress: 192/192 pages
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Russell H. Tandy, Mildred Benson, Carolyn Keene

So, Anyway ★★☆☆☆

So, Anyway... - John Cleese

I had hoped for more behind-the-scenes on his work that I know best, but pretty much the whole book is his origin story and earliest work with the other MP guys, before they were Monty Python. The storytelling pretty much stops with the first MP taping, although he gives a little post-script on the "reunion" along with some complaints that "political correctness" has spoiled his brand of comedy. I did enjoy his thoughts as to the nature of comedy, though.

 

Audiobook, via Audible. Read by the author.