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Three Brilliant Stocking Stuffers

Great news! People still read books!

I saw someone on the train and that's exactly what they were doing. A real book with pages and everything! My heart filled with joy, and I didn't care that the person didn't know how to chew gum without making horrific snapping noises.

Knowing that some people still read books inspired me to mention these books - all of which I believe would be perfect stocking stuffers:

I've known Chris Regan since college when we both worked on a comedy show. I was an idiot and went into advertising, but Chris was savvier and wound up writing for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for several years. If you watched the show odds are he was responsible for something you laughed at. His debut book MASS HISTORIA is his alternate universe - like revisionist history but without the Holocaust denial. Chris assumes his reader is smart and makes references to things you'll be proud of yourself for knowing. My friend Bill began reading the book while at my house and was unable to put it down; a mediocre testimonial since you don't know Bill, but it's 100% true. This book is too big to actually stuff in a stocking unless your friend has enormous feet. Perhaps you can leave a Post-It note mentioning that the actual book is under the tree and/or Hannukah box.

Martha Brockenbrough (just say "broken bow" with pretzels in your mouth) founded SPOGG, the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. They just sent me a copy of her new book THINGS THAT MAKE US [SIC] and I immediately started reading it. Now a girl named Amy is sitting to my left and looking through it. And she just laughed. And again. Absolutely serious. And now she's distracting me by reading out loud - a paragraph about a murderer who misused commas in her correspondence with law enforcement. Now Amy is annoying me because I can not write when she is reading out loud. I need Amy to leave now. [Three Minutes Later] Amy is gone. Any fan of this site's Grammar Cop will love this book, and it might actually fit into a stocking.

Brian Sack is me. I wrote IN THE EVENT OF MY UNTIMELY DEMISE. It was very well received. Nice reviews. Got promoted like crazy on the telly. Instead of me saying anything, I will leave it up to Vanity Fair.

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I LOVE Martha. My insides shrivel whenever someone says "utilize."

Posted by: MUSEinIN | December 22, 2008 1:43 PM

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