Michael Lent

Ah...year-end Christmas letters -- that once-a-year opportunity to catch up on the happenings in the lives of distant relatives and friends (at least before you all became "friends" on Facebook). These holiday-time jewels can range from simple notes to monstrously bloated tomes filled with more absurdly self-congratulatory and/or woe-is-us news than anyone cares to read about. With this book, Michael Lent pokes a ridiculous amount of fun at this annual tradition. Lent includes 57 Holiday Letter parodies here, from both celebrities and average families. As with any comedy anthology, there are some sad misfires here, but there are enough funny or absurd letters in this collection to give you a few chuckles. The subject matter is so easy to make fun of that you're bound to find a few in this humor collection to make it worth your while.

Originally reviewed for my local library's website: http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/depts/bookguide/srec/staffrec10-12.htm… (meer)