"The Bedwetter, Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee" by Sarah Silverman Harper Collins 237 pages $25.99
Silverman is a comedian and the above book is something of an autobiography. She's silly more than really funny (IMHO.) She also really enjoys something I really hate: using doctor names for those parts of our bodies that distinguish each of us from the opposite sex. (How tactful and graceful was THAT?!)
I believe she must think "Well I'm using the correct name for it; who can object?" Me, for one. The only body parts joke I found funny (because it was totally twisted) was this: one of the writers on the Sarah Silverman Program, returned from lunch with his fly open and his dick stuck through a paper napkin. He proudly said, "My penis had lobster!"
Yes, well ... I think we all can do better than wallowing in smut like that! After all, today is Sunday and Lent will begin soon.
"National Geographic's 100 Countries, 5,000 Ideas" no credited author per se but a forward by Rudy Maxa 400 pages $26.95
The book is tidily arranged. Each country gets its own Traveler's Notebook (average trip cost, population, main contacts) plus another on weather and when to go and yet another on what to see if you do go there. It is lavishly illustrated with color photographs. You expect "good" from National Georgraphic and you will get it here -- IF the countries you are curious about are included. I was looking for Anguilla, Aruba, Belize, Nicaragua and Saba and there they weren't.
Readers Recommend, today's LA Times Travel section
There's a cell phone company -- visit it at travelcell.com -- that will send you a cell phone for the specific coutry you are visiting in a mailer. When you get home, you ship the phone back. The phone itself determines what you owe for having used it. If the charger for the phone isn't something like $1,000/day, this might be a relatively good deal.
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