A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists

In A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists, Dr. Radu Guiaşu has compiled a collection of thirty-six stories and lists to lift your spirits and bring some much-needed humor to this otherwise dreary life. Guiaşu covers the ridiculousness of everyday life and offers a satirical look at the drudgery of academia, which he can certainly attest to with four university degrees. He brings humor to life under a communist dictator from his experiences living in Romania. Here, you will find short stories, a fake rejection letter, thoughts that go through your mind in different situations, all-dialogue pieces, lists of reasons, and satirical pieces featuring fake submission guidelines and ads for health care. There’s a little bit of everything here. ||To use the author’s own suggestions for blurbs: “this work is not just perfect but actually substantially improves on perfection” and “to call this book the wittiest ever written would simply not do it justice. It is much wittier than that.” I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I laughed out loud at quite a few of the stories. My absolute favorites are: “Logical Flaws and Other Problems with Jurassic Park,” “Trying to Figure Out Which One of My Neighbors Ratted Me Out During the Pandemic,” “Premium Med-Care Express: Your Health is Our Obsession,” “Things That Go Through Your Mind as You Are Taking Part in the Running of the Bulls Event in Pamplona,” What Having the Elephant in the Room Really Means – Some Implications,” “Explaining the Reasons for the 1-Star (Out of 5-Stars) Rating I Gave a Book on Amazon,” “Submission Guidelines,” and “An Honest Rejection Letter.” I loved how Guiaşu could find humor even growing up under a dictatorship. I really enjoyed his dry humor and would have loved having a university professor like him. If you can’t laugh at yourself and how silly life can really be, it can be easy to get discouraged in this life. Guiaşu helps the reader to gain some of that ability back, by finding humor in all situations and pointing out the absurdity of most things (and people). If you need a good laugh and enjoy humor in general, I highly recommend you pick up this book. You will not be disappointed. It’s “an unparalleled tour de force! This will restore your faith in the power of the written word. It is impossible to find superlatives superlative enough to describe how incredibly great this is.” Seriously.