Anecdotes


I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Assholes Finish First (Tucker Max, #2)
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Sh*t My Dad Says
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less – The Authorized Collection of Clever Celebrity Comedy
Friends Like These
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (Tucker Max, #1)
Chicken Soup for the Soul
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes by Clifton FadimanPresidential Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller Jr.Hollywood Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller Jr.Thesaurus Of Anecdotes by Edmund FullerThe New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross
ANECDOTES
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Curious Matrix by Domagoj PernarA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiWithout Opposite by Marcel EschauzierOneless Oneness by Marcel EschauzierAwakening the Other Way by Marcel Eschauzier
Entertaining and Enlightening
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Sarah Caudwell
I began to be very worried about Desdemona. We are given to understand that Othello's courtship of her consisted almost entirely of stories beginning "When I was stationed among the Anthropophagi—" or "I must tell you about a funny thing that happened during the siege of Rhodes." The dramatist Shakespeare would have us believe that she not only put up with this but actually enjoyed it: can that great connoisseur of the human heart really have thought this possible? ...more
Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

K. Hari Kumar
Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While 'Hussain' is a derivation of 'Hassan' that means 'GOOD' (I also owe this one to Khaled Hosseini). That's how my favorite character in my debut novel 'When Strangers meet..' gets his name... HUSSAIN ANSARI, because he is the one who helps Jai realize the truth in the story and inspires his son, Arshad, to have FAITH in Allah. ...more
K. Hari Kumar, When Strangers meet..

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