Blandings Castle and Elsewhere

This is going on my Favorites shelf for sure! First, let me say that James Saxon was the narrator of the audiobook version that I listened to, and he was hysterical. I seriously think he made the book 10x funnier just by reading it the way he did. I normally wouldn't suggest listening to a book over r......more

Have you ever seen this trefoil plant? And that fairy fly? Those three leaves adjoined at one slender stem and that yellowish flower on top of them! This three-leaf structure below and its flower above looks so guiltless to me and that fairy fly looks squeaky-clean, Impeccable. I felt like such a new......more

It's a long time since I have read a Wodehouse book afresh - I have finished them all long back so I have to do with re-reads. This was also one, but since there was thirty-five year gap between my previous perusal (during my college days) and this, most of the stories were forgotten and came across......more

Once again Wodehouse delivers screwball comedy and absurd situations. Twelve short stories. So set in the familiar Blandings Castle setting with Clarence the eccentric, put upon and absent minded Nonth Earl of Emsworth in lovely Shropshire. The other six stories are across the ocean in that flesh po......more

I slipped in another Wodehouse, since these are trying times and he is balm for the soul. The stories in this collection are what he refers to in the preface as "the short snorts in between the solid orgies" (8). There are a couple of Blandings stories, a Bobbie Wickham story, and some American stor......more