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The mauve silk handkerchief is making me think of Bertie Wooster - is it maybe The Inimitable Jeeves? ... Other novels. Some fit another category but were pushed out by other books, while others...not so much.
1. The Inimitable Jeeves
2. Atonement
3. The Code of the Woosters
4. Chocolat
5. Anansi Boys Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud (Just the part of the narration that's in Bartimaeus's voice) Jane Austen - after Pride and Prejudice
P.G. Wodehouse - after The Inimitable Jeeves
Vladimir Nabokov - after Lolita
Kazuo Ishiguro - after Never Let Me Go
Jasper Fforde - after The Eyre Affair
William Faulkner - after The Sound and the Fury
Graham Greene ... I really enjoyed The Stolen Child and am in the middle of a wealth of Wooster and Jeeves, having already listened to The Inimitable Jeeves and currently listening to The Code of the Woosters, next up will be Very Good Jeeves. They're all read by Jonathan Cecil and I think he does an ... You may enjoy P.G. Wodehouse's books. I've only read The Code of the Woosters and The Inimitable Jeeves, but I found both of them light-hearted, witty, and downright funny. The books center around a British man named Bertram Wooster and his butler, Jeeves. Bertram always finds himself in ... Okay, I finished a new book, so here's the updated list:
The Book Thief
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The Inimitable Jeeves
Chocolat
Four Queens
World War Z
Jane Eyre
Let's see, with six of those books being finished in June, if I kept up the rate of six or seven ... I just read The Inimitable Jeeves a few weeks ago. It's great, isn't it? It was my first Wodehouse novel. 39. The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse.
Unabridged audiobook, read by Johnathan Cecil. ... Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
2) Three Plays: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives - Noel Coward
3) The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
... hopefully at least hit 50.
Here's what I've read so far:
The Book Thief
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The Inimitable Jeeves
Chocolat
Four Queens
What I'm currently reading:
Jane Eyre
God's Demon
Neverwhere
Any suggestions will be happily accepted! ... see what anyone else can think of.
What I've read so far:
The Book Thief
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The Inimitable Jeeves
What I'm currently reading:
God's Demon
Jane Eyre
... about halfway through Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm, the illustrated version with the author's own sketches. Also, The Inimitable Jeeves was so funny that I am also halfway through Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. Poor Beerbohm. My opinion of his book is suffering, I think, by the comparison ... #39 mstrust - many thanks for the recommendation of The Inimitable Jeeves. One of the funniest books I've read in a long, long time. # 34 The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
This was a fun one. I've never read Wodehouse before, and I'm beginning to see what all the fuss is about. Absolutely hilarious. Luckily, Wodehouse wrote about 37,000 books, so I have reading material for a long, long time. ... by Noel Coward
From the library:
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse which was another LT suggestion.
I love my library. May has been a good book month for me. ... Motors
Very good, Jeeves!
Fore! The best of Wodehouse on golf
The inimitable Jeeves
The garden of Eden
The Code of the Woosters
Tales from the Drones Club
(3 ... ... the third reindition of 'Sonny Boy' at this particular gathering, and it's very funny. But which book is it???
How about The Inimitable Jeeves? ... reading hiatus. I actually went more than a month without finishing a book. Trying to get back on my game.
15. The inimitable Jeeves by P.G.Wodehouse
16. The garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (reread)
17. The sister by Poppy Adams
18. The big sleep by Raymond Chandler
I ... ... Peace - John Knowles
40. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
41. The Chosen - Chaim Potok
42. The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
43. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
44. Dry: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs
45. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards ... ... schedule. Despite the shopworn stylistic tics, McCullers beautifully portrays the hellish limbo that is childhood.
29. The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
This novel is liberally stuffed with excellent episodes, although the manic sequence concerning a vicious gambling pool based ... ... Peter books, so I'm reading Whose Body (the first in the series) and listening to Honeymoon. It's fun.
I downloaded The Inimitable Jeeves, The Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card (touchstone not working) and Regeneration from audible last week, so I've got lots to keep me going when I ... My haul for the month;
The Sociopath Next Door by Mary Roach
The Inimitable Jeeves - by P.G. Wodehouse
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Martha Stout
The Cleaner by Brett Battles
New England White by Stephen L. Carter - ties in to his first book The ... ... Wodehouse
5. Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu
6. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
7. The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
8. Love Songs from the Man'yoshu, illustrated by Masayuki Miyata
9. Yume no Hon by Catherynne M. Valente
February:
... ... a few times.
The secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend is hysterical.
Right Ho, Jeeves and The Inimitable Jeeves are some of Wodehouse's most priceless material. Very dry, very British and absolutely great.
and of course, you can't have a list like this ... The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
(240 pages) ... soup" (normally unwanted engagements with females). The books follow no real order, but Life with Jeeves (it includes The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves, and Right Ho, Jeeves) is a good place to start.
I second The Complete Sherlock Holmes. ... over there.
In relevance to this thread though, I have now acquired Thank You, Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, and The Inimitable Jeeves, in one volume (The Jeeves Omnibus vol. 1). So not those, thank you.
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