Humor & Satire
Review:Light, fun quick read. Exactly what it promised to be. This book doesn't take itself too seriously. It's a fun look at the evolution of magazines at technology in an unapologetic fluffy read. Devoured it in an afternoon. Recommend. Read more
Review:After reading Judy Blundell's YA novel, What I Saw and How I Lied, I was eager to read her new novel for adults, The High Season. So, I was very happy to win a copy from Bookish First.
The High Season is a good summer read in part because it takes place during the summer and the season really plays a role in the plot. While the main story focuses on Ruthie and the drama surrounding the rental of her family's home, there is a large cast of characters with intersecting story lines.
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Review:This is for fans of the TV hit "Justified". This book ends where "Justified" begins. If you like that show, you'll love this book and the adventures of Raylin Givens..the no-nonsense US Marshall. This book is a fun, entertaining read. It leaves you wanting more. I'm a Leonard fan for life. Read more
Review:For Wodehouse fans, this collection of short stories is sure to please. Some of these stories have made their way into the TV series 'Jeeves and Wooster' and so the reader will find some of the plotts to be familiar if he or she has watched the film. Read more
Review:From the moment when Psmith disappears into the Senior Conservative Club to steal an umbrella for Eve Halliday - a beautifully understated comic scene - the reader is launched into a story that should be compulsory reading for anyone with even a passing interest in Wodehouse. An exquisite combination of romance and farce in which that most debonair of Wodehousian heroes finally falls in love. It has been argued that an impecunious Psmith is a mere shadow of his former self but I couldn't disag... Read more
Review:The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories PGW is a great writer. The collection of his stories under the title "The man with two left feet" cover different subjects and only one features Bertie, an advantage rather than a drawback. Most of the stories end with unpredictable punchline. As always PGW's English is flawless. Read more
Review:Right Ho, Jeeves may be the funniest book Wodehouse ever wrote! The situations are as brilliantly conceived as they are absurd, and the dialogue is masterful (and so quotable that Right Ho, Jeeves has had an impact on my own use of the English language!). Read more
Review:For Wodehouse fans, this collection of short stories is sure to please. Some of these stories have made their way into the TV series 'Jeeves and Wooster' and so the reader will find some of the plotts to be familiar if he or she has watched the film. Read more
Review:The course of true love never did run smooth with the "Damsel in Distress", naturally. Love may not care if time totters, light droops, and all measures bend. The problem, of course, in this boy loves girl and vice versa romance, the respective love-light is shining at the wrong object d'amour. This merry mix-up is further complicated by the differences in class ("blood").
In this delightful comic tale, Wodehouse reminds us once again the universal truth mused by e.e. cummings: love's func... Read more
Review:Bertie Wooster's is a different world. A different world indeed, even from the jazzy age of 1920s and 30s England that P. G. Wodehouse employs as his setting. The code of the Woosters is to never let a friend down, and Bertie would do this far more often were it not for his tactful and clever gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves. Bertie is a marvelous type of fellow: over-educated but under-intelligent; useless to society but wealthy beyond any need for scruple; completely numbed by the sim... Read more