I said all this writing is about writing down things which brings a ray of light to darkness we sometimes find ourselves in in life. So, after mentioning Mr. Lehrer and Mrs. Child as possible - and very likely - masters of bringing light to the gloom, cooking and mastering yourself an ice-cream I think I`ll come back to more earthy things like reading.

As for me, I like many books of different countries and authors. Robert Schneider, actually, translations of him made by Jurgis Kunčinas, is one of them. I like his "Luftgängerin" a lot. "Schlafbruder" is a little too gloomy and rural. I love most of the American authors since they seem to have something that "feels like a teen spirit", a little negative and funny and absent-minded.

But since I am arranging a happy corner and love cooking, eating and reading about it, I would very much advise an easy-to-become book "An eater`s manual" where every devoted eater (that is, every one of us who`s still able to read) will find something to laugh about and think about at once. A pity is, I can`t upload files here but I think the chapter names do speak for themselves and if someone would like to get close look to this book, please don`t hesitate to contact me. Here are the chapters:

PART I - What should I eat?
Chapter 1 - Eat food.
Chapter 2 - Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
Chapter 3 - Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human ...
Chapter 4 - Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup.
Chapter 5 - Avoid foods that have some form of sugar (or sweetener) listed ...
Chapter 6 - Avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients.
Chapter 7 - Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader ...
Chapter 8 - Avoid food products that make health claims.
Chapter 9 - Avoid food products with the wordoid “lite” or the terms “low-fat” ...
Chapter 10 - Avoid foods that are pretending to be something they are not.
Chapter 11 - Avoid foods you see advertised on television.
Chapter 12 - Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
Chapter 13 - Eat only foods that will eventually rot.
Chapter 14 - Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw ...
Chapter 15 - Get out of the supermarket whenever you can.
Chapter 16 - Buy your snacks at the farmers’ market.
Chapter 17 - Eat only foods that have been cooked by humans.
Chapter 18 - Don’t ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to ...
Chapter 19 - If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
Chapter 20 - It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
Chapter 21 - It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language. ...
PART II - What kind of food should I eat?
Chapter 22 - Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
Chapter 23 - Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food.
Chapter 24 - “Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is ...
Chapter 25 - Eat your colors.
Chapter 26 - Drink the spinach water.
Chapter 27 - Eat animals that have themselves eaten well.
Chapter 28 - If you have the space, buy a freezer.
Chapter 29 - Eat like an omnivore.
Chapter 30 - Eat well-grown food from healthy soil.
Chapter 31 - Eat wild foods when you can.
Chapter 32 - Don’t overlook the oily little fishes.
Chapter 33 - Eat some foods that have been predigested by bacteria or fungi.
Chapter 34 - Sweeten and salt your food yourself.
Chapter 35 - Eat sweet foods as you find them in nature.
Chapter 36 - Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.
Chapter 37 - “The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.”
Chapter 38 - Favor the kinds of oils and grains that have traditionally been stone-ground.
Chapter 39 - Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
Chapter 40 - Be the kind of person who takes supplements—then skip the supplements.
Chapter 41 - Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
Chapter 42 - Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism.
Chapter 43 - Have a glass of wine with dinner.
PART III - How should I eat?
Chapter 44 - Pay more, eat less.
Chapter 45 - . . . Eat less.
Chapter 46 - Stop eating before you’re full.
Chapter 47 - Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.
Chapter 48 - Consult your gut.
Chapter 49 - Eat slowly.
Chapter 50 - “The banquet is in the first bite.”
Chapter 51 - Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.
Chapter 52 - Buy smaller plates and glasses.
Chapter 53 - Serve a proper portion and don’t go back for seconds.
Chapter 54 - “Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper.”
Chapter 55 - Eat meals.
Chapter 56 - Limit your snacks to unprocessed plant foods.
Chapter 57 - Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.
Chapter 58 - Do all your eating at a table.
Chapter 59 - Try not to eat alone.
Chapter 60 - Treat treats as treats.
Chapter 61 - Leave something on your plate.
Chapter 62 - Plant a vegetable garden if you have the space, a window box if ...
Chapter 63 - Cook.
Chapter 64 - Break the rules once in a while.

As you see, the last one denies all of them. I like the 63rd most, as you do or will see.
With this "upload" I wanted to show or prove that both reading+ experiencing and jokes make fun. As for funny but still well written cookbooks I would advise Julia Child`s "Mastering the art of French cooking" (not so much of fun but of feeling her taking care of you, look here: http://rgr-static1.tangentlabs.co.uk/images/bau/97803073/9780307381927/0/0/plain/mastering-the-art-of-french-cooking-journal.jpg) and my new one, in German, "Basic cooking" (very friendly funny written but rather for ones who aren`t really sure "how to boil an egg" , http://www.qpdistribution.com/catalog/images/basic%20cooking%20002.jpg). For the latter, I paid 15 Euro in Röbel, an end-of-the-world-town in Eastern Germany at the Western bank of Muritz lake. The German book won an award as the best book on general cooking in 1999 so after all it can`t be that bad even after over 10 years (it`s a new edition in my hands).
So for now have a great read, cook, listen and giggle!