The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman

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They have a five year plan - by the time they’re fifteen, they want to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

I loved being with these zany and quirky characters as they rolled along in the Austin going from one adventure to the next. My mum reckons that just because she sets a bad example doesn’t mean I’m going to follow it, because I’m way smarter than her.The book is told from two points of view: Sadie, the mom, is dealing with a lot of issues from her past and sometimes she evolves into just a lump of self-pity. Let me say at the outset as a reader you will definitely need to suspend disbelief, more so the further on the book gets as some of it is over the top. In Julietta Henderson's The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman, the title character is a 12-year-old boy who wants to perform his stand-up comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Their grief is handled with sensitivity, not sentimentality and the heart-rending moments are balanced out with gloriously witty, sprinklings of humour - there are so many laugh out loud moments, it left me grinning from ear to ear.

The blog is here to share our love of books and the bookish world, alongside our other passions in life. When she spills all her woes to Leonard, an elderly pensioner who works part time with her, he comes up with a plan to help Norman and so the three of them set off on a road trip from their home in Penzance to Edinburgh. She feels that she has failed at being his mother and yet she is actually quite the woman who would and has done anything for her son. With thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House UK/Transworld/Bantam for the arc for an honest review.

His story had me in tears, both of laughter and sorrow, as he bravely battles against the odds to achieve his dream. Except for Sadie’s obnoxious boss, Henderson gives the readers a cast of characters to love, to laugh with, to ache for, to cheer on. Norman’s mum, Sadie is caught off-guard by Norman’s ‘new plan’ announcement, but, seeing him now getting so excited about something, literally anything, makes it impossible for her to refuse. Their plan was for their appearance in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in five years’ time and they worked toward it every day. I think what stopped me from really enjoying this book was the writing style where the hints at what was to come felt too obvious, the antics a little too silly and the characters a tad too caricature.

If you told me that I'd enjoy a book about a boy whose dream is to become a comedian, I wouldn't have believed you. It was like having the biggest (book) hug - It pulled me in from page one, and kept me enveloped in a tight, warm, comforting embrace, right to the very end.

Traurig, herzergreifend, lustig, chaotisch und an manchen stellen möglicherweise etwas übertrieben, aber definitiv ein Herzensbuch. Es wird über alle Seiten von dieser gleichen Stimmung der ängstlichen Mutter beherrscht, generell sind alle nur ängstlich in diesem Buch.

If you are an inveterate reader, the odds are good, better than good actually, that fellow readers or close friends (sometimes, happily, they are both) that at some point they will recommend a book to you. Norman, who has long fancied himself a stand-up comic in the making, an heir to his grandfather’s crown of almost-comedy great – in truth he was nothing of the kind but Norman is not aware of his antecedent’s full history – is excited to be realising a longheld dream to perform comedy, part of a grand five-year plan that he and his best friend Jax cooked up long ago, both certain their future lay with making people laugh, just like the comedy greats they idolised. There's such a lovely, buoyant innocence to Norman and his quest—a coming-of-age that tickles and moves in equal measure.The story is both hilarious and heart-warming, with one 'helluva' brave, wise, and lovable twelve-year-old hero. There’s also another, far more colossal objective on Norman’s new plan that his single mom, Sadie, wasn’t ready for: he wants to find the father he’s never known. Man konnte das Buch schnell und problemlos lesen, aber es war für mich ziemlich nichtssagend (nie lustig!