Something New
Registered by copfield of Downers Grove, Illinois USA on 6/5/2008
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
In going through my shelves, I realized I had two copies of this. I’ll be releasing this one…
Journal Entry 2 by copfield at -- By Hand Or Post, Ray/Ring, Meet-Up, RABCK in Chicago, Illinois USA on Thursday, June 5, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (6/5/2008 UTC) at -- By Hand Or Post, Ray/Ring, Meet-Up, RABCK in Chicago, Illinois USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Semi-controlled release at the office book exchange. If it's still there after a couple months, I'll reclaim it and give it a wider release.
Semi-controlled release at the office book exchange. If it's still there after a couple months, I'll reclaim it and give it a wider release.
Re-claimed from the office bookshelf to pass on to mssaver. Enjoy!
This is "something new," all right. It's a Wodehouse I haven't read before. Thanks for passing it along, copfield.
This is one of Wodehouse's typically complex and delightfully comical novels.
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I probably won't be able to stay for the MeetUp, but I'll drop off this book in hopes that someone will take it!
I probably won't be able to stay for the MeetUp, but I'll drop off this book in hopes that someone will take it!
Thanks, mssaver!
I wasn't going to take this, but mssaver liked it AND it's gingergrant's favorite book. How could I resist?
I wasn't going to take this, but mssaver liked it AND it's gingergrant's favorite book. How could I resist?
Absolutely delightful. Thanks, N and J, for recommending this! I never would have picked it up otherwise. And thanks also to copfield to parting with an extra copy.
Of course the story is arch and exaggerated, but it's incredibly entertaining, and much of the dialogue was realistic and natural-sounding without that horrible Harold Pinter quality.
I haven't read much Wodehouse, so I didn't realize how old the book is. Then I noticed that everyone takes trains everywhere, except for the trip from the train station to the castle, which takes place in an open cart . . . so I looked at the copyright page . . . 1915!! (I would have figured it out eventually when I got to the comments about suffragettes.)
In a time of economic uncertainty, it's a relief to read about fictional buffoons from another era. So there I was, standing at the bus stop, reading this and laughing like a loon.
Not the most perfect novel ever written, but it does perfectly what it sets out to do.
Of course the story is arch and exaggerated, but it's incredibly entertaining, and much of the dialogue was realistic and natural-sounding without that horrible Harold Pinter quality.
I haven't read much Wodehouse, so I didn't realize how old the book is. Then I noticed that everyone takes trains everywhere, except for the trip from the train station to the castle, which takes place in an open cart . . . so I looked at the copyright page . . . 1915!! (I would have figured it out eventually when I got to the comments about suffragettes.)
In a time of economic uncertainty, it's a relief to read about fictional buffoons from another era. So there I was, standing at the bus stop, reading this and laughing like a loon.
Not the most perfect novel ever written, but it does perfectly what it sets out to do.
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Bringing to the Meetup Tuesday night at 6:30. See you there?
Bringing to the Meetup Tuesday night at 6:30. See you there?
TBR - picked this up at the Evanston bookcrossing meetup - sorry about the delayed journal entry!
This book has sat unread on my bookshelf for a while. Releasing to the wild in hopes it finds a good home. Happy reading!
