Book description
Laughter the Best Medicine is a collection of Reader's Digest magazine's funniest jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, anecdotes, and laugh-out-loud captions. A little chuckle every day will keep the doctor away.
This hilarious collection offers up some of the funniest moments that get us through our day, in the form of…
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1 author picked Laughter the Best Medicine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It is useless to talk about how humor and how laughter can be therapeutic without experiencing it. I’m therefore suggesting this series of books published by Reader’s Digest. Each one contains 1,000 jokes, quotes, and cartoons. With that many funny things, it is most likely you will find something to tickle your funnybone.
From Allen's list on The best books on therapeutic humor & laughter.
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