Re: What is your favorite humorous gardening book?

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Billy Goodnick says,

> I'm interested in title of gardening books that give good solid 
> information and are also laugh-out-loud funny. Have you read any? Why did 
> you like them?

Thanks, Billy!

As it happens, the newest book from B. B. Mackey books was recently 
described by reviewer Art Wolk (author of "Garden Lunacy: A Growing 
Concern") as laugh-out-loud funny. It is "Best of Green Space: 30 Years of 
Composted Columns" by GWL member Duane Campbell. The book has good garden 
advice well wrapped in humor, not too sweet. The lighthearted little ink 
sketches are mine. The book is a paperback, 224 pages, $16.95,  and arrived 
from the printer last week. It's available from Amazon.com and from my 
website, for starters, and also by special order through any book store 
(Ingram distribution, part of the POD printing deal through Lightning 
Source).

If any of you would like a sampler -- excerpts from the book -- I'll be 
happy to email you one. It is a PDF file.

If you would like a review copy of the book after looking at the sampler, 
tell me the name of your blog, show, column, website, or publication and 
send me your snail mail address.

Let me know offlist at betty@mackeybooks.com.

To see info on Duane's book go to www.mackeybooks.com.

To see info on Art's book go to http://www.gardenlunacy.com .

Billy, writing a book that gives solid information and is also really, 
really funny is a rare combination of skills, but perhaps that skill set 
happens to be yours. Is it?

Zealotry and extreme behavior can be humorous and that's the basis of the 
garden humor in both Art Wolk's and Duane Campbell's books, and that's why I 
like them.

With best wishes,
Betty

Betty Mackey, Publisher
B. B. Mackey Books
P. O. Box 475
Wayne, PA 19087
Betty@mackeybooks.com

www.mackeybooks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Billy Goodnick" <billygoodnick@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:02 AM
Subject: [GWL] What is your favorite humorous gardening book?

> I'm interested in title of gardening books that give good solid 
> information and are also laugh-out-loud funny. Have you read any? Why did 
> you like them?
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