July 19, 2024The End of Many Books2024
Summer Lightning
by P.G. Wodehouse
It’s been a few years since enjoying my last Wodehouse novel. This one has much ado about the Empress of Blandings.
It wasn’t quite as fun-on-every-page as some of my previous reads, say, with Jeeves. And sometimes I did have trouble keeping track of the different antics of Mr. Fish, Mr. Carmody, and Mr. Baxter. But I got what I came for, including some new delightful analogies:
- “a face like the Soul’s Awakening”
- “a man who ought to have had the liver of the century”
- “a look which would have aroused pique in a slug”
- “acting like a barbed-wire entanglement in the path of true love”
as well as some vocabulary entries in my commonplace book:
- nobble
- tocsin
- chatelaine