Recommend me something funny while I’m being induced

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Please can I have your recommendations for lighthearted, funny books to read while I’m being induced this week?

James Herriot?

Can't do any better than P.G. Wodehouse or E.F. Benson. Both classic.
Sorry don't know any modern stuff!

Jeez, not James Herriot! Far too much lambing action.

I'd suggest Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld. Largely light and funny, beautifully written. It's set partly during covid and part of the storyline does deal with that, but not in a bleak way.

Lucky Jim.

Agreed. I wouldn’t want to read about lambing sheds or calving jacks while being induced! I was going to suggest Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, Molly Keane’s very black comic Good Behaviour or Rachel Cusk’s The Country Life.

Miriam Margolyes autobiography has me belly laughing!

Sarah Milligan's autobiography is hilarious.

Anything by Caitlin Moran....

@StylishM you might have the one here! I love MM and didn’t realise she had an autobiography!

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman.

Jeez, not James Herriot! Far too much lambing action.

Ha, I grew up on a farm so had my Dad comparing me to sheep and cattle all through my pregnancies so it seemed fitting 😂

I read them very young and knew cows had a uterus before I knew I had one.

Definitely early morning riser by Katherine Heiny!! Good luck!

Try the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. It's like having the most gossipy, camp, funny person you ever met whispering in your ear.

Not a comedy as such (although they have plenty of comic moments), but I got through Master and Commander, Post Captain and halfway through the Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O' Brien while I was being induced. They were short staffed, I was stuck there for days 🙄

Nobody comes close to P. G. Wodehouse. The Jeeves and Wooster novels are miracles of beauty and humour. Read them out loud. There’s nothing like it in literature. As Stephen Fry said, “you don’t analyse such sunlit perfection, you merely bask in its splendour.”