Book Reviews: 200 Homophone Jokes for Wordplay Lovers & English Laughs Best

Book Review:

"We don't stop laughing because we grow old;
We grow old because we stop laughing." - (Michael Pritchard)

If you are tired of hearing or repeating the same jokes and puns at parties, the office or other gatherings, then you will welcome 200 Homophones for Wordplay Lovers by Razvan Macovei. This book offers a stimulating variety of amusing anecdotes. It is also very useful for persons who are studying English or want to study the language. A handy Key to Joke Comprehension at the back of the book lists the content with explanations, in case readers do not understand the anecdote. The book contains witty sketches too.

What does a cannibal say after the first date? - "I would like to gnaw you better."

"Rooster found dead with an egg next to it. Police suspect fowl play."

The above are two examples of jokes that Razvan Macovei wrote in his book.

Here are links to 200 Homophones for Wordplay Lovers.

Amazon                                                    Goodreads

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"When humour goes, there goes civilization." Erma Bombeck, American Humourist

English Laughs Best: 300 Fabulous Pun Jokes to Learn English is another entertaining book by the author that I have read. His primary goal when writing this book was to make people smile. The second reason was to enrich a person's vocabulary with useful idioms and phrases. 

Why is punctuation so hard to digest? - It gets stuck in the colon.

Why are sculptors great lovers? - They put their spouses on a pedestal.

Razvan Macovei has included an Appendix and Pun Mind Map, which contains key words or image association that will make the jokes easier to remember. Due to the content of some cartoons and jokes, English Laughs Best: 300 Fabulous Pun Jokes to Learn English is more appropriate for teens and older persons.

Here are the links to the author's book.

Amazon                          Goodreads

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Book Review: The Three Little Monsters & the Ghost of Wisdom Woods

Book Blurb:

Three little monsters are trying to score scare points to avoid going back to school, so they won't have to see evil Dr. Booshilla. But will a visit from 2 young kids give them a scare that they were not expecting?

Book Review:

The Three Little Monsters and the Ghost of Wisdom Woods is a lovely children's story by Jessica Snape. Gruesome, Grouch and Grumble are three little monsters who live in a house in Wisdom Woods. Gruesome enjoy scaring people at bedtime; Grouch is very grouchy, especially when his sleep is disturbed, and Grumble who is bossy, likes telling the others what to do. 

The monsters keep their house neat so they can attract humans to scare. If they do not accumulate enough scare points within a few days, then they will have to return to Ghoul School to report to evil Dr. Booshilla, every monster's nightmare. Their problems increase when a ghost they never knew was living in their basement scares kids who enters the house, ruining their chance to gain points.

Jessica Snapes writes very nicely and displays her active imagination in this amusing story. The concept of the story is good with an adorable, but quarrelsome cast of characters who bring the story to life. I could also sense the monsters' fear when they spoke of Dr. Booshilla and Ghoul School. The Three Little Monsters and the Ghost of Wisdom Woods is a fun book to read and children will like it a lot.

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Mouse Work (Whitney)

I work hard

catching mice for

a living,

and deserve to

 be pampered

and waited on.

It is the purr-fect lifestyle.

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A Whitney has 7 lines with a syllable count of 3/4/3/4/3/4/7.

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Book Review: Silly Socks

Book Blurb: Suzie has a dilemma on her hands when she has a look in her sock drawer. All of her socks have disappeared and she decides to go and find out where they could all be? Follow Suzie through her story as she discovers her socks are having fun hiding from her.

Book Review:

I was inspired to write part of my review in rhyming form as it seemed fitting when I read Silly Socks with its nice rhymes.

Little Suzie searches in despair
She needs a pair of socks to wear
Her sock drawer is so very bare
Suzie searches here and over there
Still cannot find a pair anywhere!

Oh, look! I think she found one in a shoebox
But where's the other foot and rest of socks
Hey, isn't that a pair sitting in her thong?
Wearing socks in your thongs is so wrong

I think Suzie's patience is finally running out
She is tired of searching and begins to pout
How can she stop her socks from hiding away?
Keep them in the drawer and they should stay


Keeping socks together always seem to be a problem and Sandra Novello cleverly expressed how frustrating it can be in her children's book, Silly Socks. Young readers are often guilty of tossing their socks all over the place, and they will love the funny search Suzie takes them on to find hers. The beautiful illustrations enhance this very short story even more. The author teaches kids in an entertaining way the importance of keeping their socks together.

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Here are the links to Sandra Novello's book.

Amazon:      Silly Socks

Goodreads:  Silly Socks


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Book Review: Man of Clay

Book Blurb:

Connie lives in a modern day harem with her ex, two wives, and their five children. It's a 'sensible arrangement that cracks when a new woman arrives on the scene. Is this one wife too many? Connie struggles with the realization she must finally let her husband go. As she builds her last collection of ceramics, Connie reflects on longing, serial monogamy and his career as a herpetologist. Humans have much in common with frogs. Metamorphosis parallels the reactions of mud and glaze in a kiln, Man of Clay is about family, frogs, and art. The kiln fires hotter than the crematorium.

Book Review:

Man of Clay is a women’s fiction written by Victoria Osborne. Connie Baldwin, a sculptor leads a complex life. She has never stopped loving Jude, her ex-husband whom she divorced out of guilt when she could not give him another child. Connie plays matchmaker, Jude and her friend Zita marries and has children. Jude eventually divorces Zita, marries Simone and starts another family. Connie convinces Jude that he and “the wives and kids” should all live in her apartment building as one happy family. This arrangement seems to work until Jude admits his involvement with another woman, and Zita plans on marrying again. Connie’s well-structured life suddenly unhinges and she finds herself battling to keep her “wives harem” together with Jude as the primary male in their lives.

“You can’t have your cake and eat it too, or can you?” Reading Man of Clay made me realize that this quote does not apply to Connie who narrates so emotionally about the changes in her life. The characters try to maintain stability in their unusual living arrangement but insist on doing things out of the ordinary. I think Connie is overly protective, yet slightly jealous as she strives to create the perfect family while still yearning for Jude. Jude is a womanizer who tends to” go with the flow” and let the wives make most decisions. The story has a mature writing structure that is more suitable for older adults, and it moves at a slower pace that seems appropriate for a setting that reflects the 1960’s onwards.

The characters have strong personas, which are different from each other, so that made the drama absorbing. There are numerous interesting comparisons throughout the book about the similarities of humans and frogs, as Connie refers to some amphibians that are associated with fertility. The cover illustration is lovely. This is Victoria Osborne’s first novel and she has managed to produce a nicely written, very original thought-provoking story.

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Here are links to Victoria Osborne's book:

Amazon  : Man of Clay

Goodreads: Man of Clay

Facebook: Victoria Osborne

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the stork (senryu)

beloved courier

delivers special orders

diapers full of fun

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a frog's fairy tale (haiku)

wet and warty skin

lonely female entice mates

no croaking beauty

I wrote this haiku sometime ago for a contest that had a frog based theme.

Thank you MKFlood @ community.art-is-fun.com (the Art Colony) for allowing me to use your lovely artwork once more!

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