by P.G. Wodehouse
I think I enjoyed the audio version of this book better than the print! You can find my review for the print version here. I’m counting this one as the “Summer word in the title” square for the summer book bingo.
Part of the Blandings Castle series (Book 4). A solid, humorous romp wherein the Empress of Blandings, Lord Elmsworth's prize-winning pig, goes missing, Ronnie tries to get with Sue, Hugo tries to get with Millicent (whilst their family wishes Ronnie and Millicent would marry each other), and Baxt...
goodreads tells me i've now read seventeen wodehouse books, with sixteen of those being novels and short stories -- the other is a wonderful collection i can only highly recommend, called [b:Wodehouse On Wodehouse|1232375|Wodehouse On Wodehouse|P.G. Wodehouse|/assets/nocover/60x80.png|1220976] that ...
Reminds me more of Osar Wilde than Wodehouse.
A star cast in a timeless comedy. blurbification - Affably absent-minded Earl of Emsworth, preparing his prize-winning pig Empress of Blandings for the Shropshire Agricultural Show, is afraid that rival pig-owner Sir Gregory Parsloe is planning to nobble his precious Empress. Parsloe fears that Emsw...
How incredibly hard is it to write like Wodehouse? To make comedy seem so effortless, so light, so frothy? Is there any writer working today besides Connie Willis who understands the idea of a madcap comedy?Great reading for a Depression.***Wodehouse is a writer above others. He astounds me and deli...
Summer Lightning is one of Wodehouse's Blandings Castle series, a series which is slowly replacing Jeeves & Wooster in my affections.Most of the stories in the Blandings Castle series use the same plot devices: a broken engagement (or two), an imposter (or two), and the kidnapping of Lord Emsworth's...
The third Blandings novel. Classic farce with twisting plots and wonderful similes. Gally writing his memoirs; Empress of Blandings stolen; the Efficient Baxter acting madly; Ronnie Fish and Sue Brown; Percy Pilbeam "investigating" various things; all the wrong people turning up in the wrong place a...
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