Download or read book Living with Limericks written by Garrison Keillor and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio personality and author Garrison Keillor delights and astounds in this hybrid memoir/poetry collection that combines anecdotes from his childhood and his "A Prairie Home Companion" years with literary limericks, darkly humorous limericks, extended limericks (aka limericks with porches), and so much more. Limericks are the poems that can be written in the empty spaces between life, Keillor posits, and this compact book illustrates the full range of the form's utility: thank-you notes to doctors, odes to "Prairie Home" performers, postcard greetings from exotic places, succinct biographies of favorite writers, and scribbles in the margins of Sunday church programs. Readers who have always pined for the perfect limerick hinging on the place name "Schenectady" will at long last be placated. Meanwhile, longtime Keillor fans will gain insight into a whole new side of the bestselling author, whose obsession with limericks goes all the way back to when the bespectacled, lanky youth wearing hand-me-down jeans (from his sister) recited to his Anoka High School class: There was a young man of Anoka Who tried to write a great limerick. He tried and he tried And some were not bad, But something seemed to be missing.
Download or read book Life Is a Limerick written by Judith R. Gordon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a limerick A four-line trick A model for living A reason for being Your job is to discover What is under the cover That hides God's truth Are you a good sleuth?
Download or read book Once Upon a Rhyme written by Antony L. Saragas and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not about poetry, even though the title and limericks sprinkled within might lead you to that notion. This book is not about sports, though many of the characters connect as coaches or teammates. This book is not even about a father and son, even though it deals with a man and his recently deceased father. This is a familiar tale of family, friendship, community, loss, and the renewal of faith. Even though the book takes place over the course of only one week, its message delves deeply into life and living. We all question the usefulness of our past, the course of our present, and—on our more challenging days—the point of our future. We wonder about the significance of our efforts. In other words, this book poses the question we often ignore through activity, defy with arrogance, or accept as unanswerable: “What’s the point?” In the vein of film classic It’s a Wonderful Life, author Antony Saragas reminds you that life is worth living and that sometimes your friends and family are your angels.
Download or read book A Book of Limericks written by Edward Lear and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book of Limericks by Edward Lear, first published in 1888, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book Try Never written by Anthony Madrid and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Written under the spell of a medieval Welsh poetic form, the poems in Anthony Madrid's incantatory second book, TRY NEVER, each offer up their own strange world. They're full of erudition, humor, and rare magnificence. A single poem can contain "bottles and cans," Mount Everest, an upset stomach, Texas rain, a hawk, the evil queen, a "twice- mended lid," and Ralph; as if to say, anything's possible.
Download or read book Strangers Have the Best Candy written by Margaret Meps Schulte and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The antidote to cynicism." A humorous nonfiction book about the lessons, adventures, and lifelong friendships that come from talking to strangers. Through the author's experiences, the book makes the case that talking to strangers is good for you. Includes over 100 original pen-and-ink illustrations by the author.
Download or read book Silly Verse for Kids written by Spike Milligan and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the absurd, ridiculous, sublime and characteristically anarchic verse from the brilliant Spike Milligan. With his very own illustrations, this collection, which includes the famous On the Ning Nang Nong will make you laugh from the bottom of your belly - just like Spike did.
Download or read book A Natural History of Insects in 100 Limericks written by Richard Jones and published by Pelagic Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insects are often overlooked because they are small or ignored because they are deemed trivial, and many are dismissed as nuisance pests. But their numbers and diversity are mind-numbing, and under even a modest hand lens they are beautiful or bizarre. Insects dominate the centre ground of all terrestrial and most aquatic ecosystems. They inform us of the conservation value of ancient woodland and chalk downland. They help monitor the purity or pollution levels of ponds, streams and rivers. And they can demonstrate the effects of climate change, acting as warning lights to alert us to the damage that humans are doing to the world. Recent insectageddon headlines are starting to make people sit up and take more notice. What better way to promote an interest in these fascinating creatures than by poetizing them? This cornucopia of discordant nonsense, with some quite frankly dubious rhyming clashes, is offered up so that entomological outreach will at least benefit from their shock value.
Download or read book Limerick Explosion written by Michelle Monet and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second poetry book from author Michelle Monet is a lighthearted lyrical lively labyrinth of limerical lunacy-- from levity to lament! Her unique view on life is brought to life through this eclectic multi-faceted collection. Chapters include: Creative Expression, Random Observances ( Politics, Pills to Personalities ), True Life Stories from her life as a musician/artist and impersonator of Streisand to her Inspirational Cats and Diary Musings. She even includes an unexpected Bonus Chapter. Fun and diverse!
Download or read book A Book of Nonsense written by Edward Lear and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 100 limericks with the author's original illustrations.
Download or read book There Once Was a Limerick Anthology written by Michael Croland and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks featuring limerick legends plus renowned political figures, poets, and writers.
Download or read book Limericks written by Edward Lear and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry Text
Download or read book The Lure of the Limerick written by William Stuart Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Angela s Ashes written by Frank McCourt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies
Download or read book Crimson and Gold Life as a Limerick written by Mark Patrick Hederman and published by Columba Books. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid-twentieth century, County Limerick stood as an outlier - a Protestant enclave in a Catholic country. Between the warring factions, horses were the only common denominator. This book examines a rare circumstance and sets the stage for a theological juxtaposition.
Download or read book Limerick s Glory written by Mainchín Seoighe and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Little Book of Limericks written by Hugh Morrison and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a young lady named Perkins, Who had a great fondness for gherkins; At afternoon tea She ate twenty-three Which pickled her internal workins! This book contains over 200 funny, non-rude limerick poems old and new, suitable for children as well as adults. Laugh at the antics of the woman from Chippenham, Wilts, who walked up to Scotland on stilts, the old lady of Rye, who was baked by mistake in a pie, the young man called McLeod, who played the trombone far too loud - and many many more.
