Ask for a recommendation of relaxing reads!

[outofdejavu]

Dear All,

I've been reading some detective stories during the first half of the year, and I'd like to switch over to some relaxing reads.

Are there any good books with daily life humor anyone can recommend me?
Either prose books or novels are fine. I prefer prose books at this moment, though.

Well, for me, the title which goes like 'something somebody's dad says' is certainly not in this category.
Thanks.

Sincerely,

[Barb_D]

One of my favorite books ever (though not humorous) is The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher. It was very "cosy" to read. A funny one that was still poignment was Blessed are the Cheesemakers if you can find it. I was drawn to the title (since I'm a Monty Python fan) and liked it. I don't know if you hate the whole vampire genre, but the Sookie Stackhouse books start off pretty funny. (They are not at all like the series True Blood, which is based on them.) The first one is Dead Until Dark. If you like mysteries but don't want to think very hard, the Stephanie Plum series is laugh-out-loud funny. The first one is One for the Money.

[Marco_BR]

I like H. P. Lovecraft and E. A. Poe's stories, but they are short tales of suspense, horror and fantastic.
Good reads!

[emsr2d2]

If you like travel writing, I can recommend "Spanish Steps" by Tim Moore. He's an English guy who walked the famous Camino de Santiago de Compostela with a donkey called Shinto. It's an easy, relaxing read and at times I really did "LOL" (laugh out loud)!