I heard a report a while back on NPR about funny books to read during the winter. The one that I found the most appealing was The Bear Went Over the Mountain, by William Kotzwinkle. And it was… well, odd. There were parts that were amusing, though I never laughed out loud (Russell did). The basic premise: a bear steals an author’s book and pretends to be the author and becomes wildly successful while the author ends up turning into a bear. Sounds funny, right? It turned out to be one of those books, I think, that are much funnier talking about it than actually reading it.