Laugh Yourself Thin - Making Happiness, Fun, and Pleasure the Keys to Permanent Weight Loss

Laughter is the key to weight loss; increasing joy, fun, and pleasure in eating and activity decreases stress and negative emotions and results in permanent thinness. The happier you are, the thinner you can be.

A pre-intermediate text which uses naturalistic languge and includes plenty of redundancy and repetition to help students learn to listen to longer texts. There is a strong focus on listening for pleasure and on the media in general. Tasks develop listening for gist and specific details.

From A Cause to A Style

The greatest pleasure of “From a Cause to a Style” lies simply in listening to Glazer think as he walks us about his native New York, with occasional diversions to other locales like Boston or the Washington Mall. His intelligence fairly radiates from the page, and his prose is a pleasure to read — clear, supple and frequently droll. His descriptions of the hysteria that engulfed British architects when Prince Charles dared to criticize their work are priceless.

Tish and Pish: A delicious collection of sumptious gorgiosities: How to be of a Speakingness Like Stephen Fry

The English tongue has never tasted more delicious than in the mouth of Stephen Fry: his chokingly brilliant sesquipedalian prose is like a shaft of sunlight through the drizzle of quotidian language. Now, with this bound monograph, we can all emit a similarly exquisite effulgence and enjoy the bright shaft of Stephen Fry locution in the privacy of our own smallest pavilion. May his shaft continue to pleasure us for many years to come. After all, what could be fluffier?

Mystery - Peter Straub

Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident.  During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death. When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons from the past and the dark secrets that still haunt the present.