Sky Daddy

$18

Recommended by monna

in response to Rebecca

Gimme your favorite funny books, please. I have finished all of Nora Ephron, Samantha Irby, and Bill Bryson. Not quite in the mood for David Sedaris, but I may test that theory. Essays are fine, Fiction or non, just good, funny writing please!

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"I always felt more confident with the shape of my buttocks obscured." If you found that sentence funny, you'd like this book. It's about a woman who is sexually attracted to airplanes, which is absurd, but the writing is.. convincing?? Like, it made me wonder if I could be attracted to planes if only I paid more attention. Thoroughly enjoyable, and especially fun if you're familiar with San Francisco.

read it, loved it

8 days ago

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Chiara

@chiaraOct 6, 2026

I loooooved this book, she was tapping into something so specific and yet also universal to the freak in all of us. so so fun.

Vicki

@vickiwriteOct 12, 2026

Out There is Kate Folk’s short story collection which was also really really great!

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Leslie Ylinen

“On the surface it’s about a sexual attraction to airplanes but it’s actually about the friends we made along the way. And I think that’s beautiful. Extra appreciation for the tedious accuracy when describing the network of freeways around SFO.”

Phoebe Ward

“About a woman who is sexually attracted to planes (one in particular who she refers to as Him). She lives in a one room garage with no windows and spends all of her money from her normal job on flights. The sentences are insane - “Lewd shots from below, that long stretch of belly, fish-smooth and flanked by testicular engines.” Could not be more fun to describe to people who haven’t read it.”