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The Small Bachelor
The Small Bachelor | P.G. Wodehouse
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Published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, an aesthetically designed, faithful edition of one of his most definitive works follows the loves and frustrations of a hopelessly bad artist. 10,000 first printing.
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TheAromaofBooks
The Small Bachelor | P.G. Wodehouse
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This was delightful in the way only Wodehouse truly is. A young man falls in love with a young woman he sees out on the street; another fellow writes informative and educational pamphlets and scorns the concept of love at first sight; an ex-con valet tries to go straight and encourages his pickpocket fiancee to do the same; a man is bullied by this 2nd wife who holds the purse strings; a policemen is trying to become a poet; a young English lord ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) is hungry a lot; and there's about to be a raid on the Purple Chicken, where you can always get IT if you know the right people...

While it's never as fun when Wodehouse sets his books in NYC instead of England, where they belong, this one was still nonstop action and nonsense with the usual pile of both likable and unlikable characters, and justice handed out to all at the end. I snort-laughed my way through the entire thing.
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TheAromaofBooks This fills my 1927 slot for #192025 @Librarybelle

Also, final #AwesomeAugust report, considering I didn't even post that I was participating... my goal was to hit 1500 pages, which I did!! I finished five books and made solid progress in my chapter-a-day reads (they accounted for 273 of my pages). The best reading week August has given me so far!! Thanks for hosting @Andrew65 !!!
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Librarybelle Wodehouse is a good choice! Congratulations on hitting your goal! 2y
mabell I agree - Wodehouse novels belong in England! 2y
TheAromaofBooks @mabell - This one was still fun and prohibition played a sizable part in the grand finale, but there is something about them being in England that just makes it all make sense! 😂 2y
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TheAromaofBooks
The Small Bachelor | P.G. Wodehouse
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The Windowsill of Optimism is looking a bit more under control, which must mean there is only a week left before adding September's books 😂 The only “urgent“ book for this #WeeklyForecast is Pat of Silver Bush for August's #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - I'd also like to read His Majesty's Dragon. As for the rest, I'll continue with the random draw, although I think I only have two weeks until The It Girl is due at the library ⬇

Prairiegirl_reading The window sill of optimism. I love that! 💜 2y
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) so it will probably be fairly high priority as well. Currently reading the tagged book - Wodehouse is always a great choice. I have to say that my windowsill system, just started this year, has been working great for me. I'm still excited about the books that are here, but also enjoy the monthly refresh/additions to keep things interesting!! Even if I am hopelessly behind!! 😁
@Cinfhen
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Sargar114 “The windowsill of optimism”. 😂😂😂. Everyone‘s TBR LOL 2y
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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Love “The Windowsill of Optimism”! 🤣😂🤣 2y
Cinfhen Wait, what??? Next week we add September???? That‘s BONKERS!!!!! 2y
TheAromaofBooks @Prairiegirl_reading @Sargar114 @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm - It's classic “eyes are bigger than your stomach“ syndrome except where I'm consistently convinced that I am going to have way more reading time than I ever actually have 😂 2y
TheAromaofBooks @Cinfhen - Technically we have a week and a half, since the 1st is on a Thursday, but I usually add the next month's books to the windowsill the Sunday before the 1st so... August went SO FAST!! 😵 2y
Cinfhen Whew 😅 I was getting nervous 😉 2y
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