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Mating Season, The

Version 1.0.0 “You can't press your suit and another fellow's trousers simultaneously.” Author: P.G. Wodehouse Bertie Wooster is in another rather sticky situation. He’s stuck at Deverill Hall, surrounded by a gaggle of critical aunts, pretending to be a ditzy friend of his, helping with other people’s complicated romances, and making rather a mess of all of it. Without his devoted manservant, Jeeves, it’s doomed to failure. When said ditzy friend arrives, this time disguised as Bertie himself, more hilarity and misunderstandings ensue. Relationships reform and break apart, aunts get scandalized, a play is ruined, and eventually Jeeves himself [...]

Frances Carden2025-06-14T09:25:33-07:00June 14th, 2025|Tags: book review, classic, Comedy, Jeeves, read, reading, Wodehouse|

Dracula

“We've all become God's madmen, all of us.” Author: Bran Stoker There are some stories that need no introduction – some stories that live and walk in our darkest fantasies and waking nightmares, that populate our legends and inform our culture, that have woven themselves into the tapestry of our speech and the way we understand our own histories. Dracula is surely one of these stories. Indeed, Dracula epitomizes an immortal romance that grows beyond a tale and becomes a living myth. Look no further than the nearly supernatural land of Transylvania – dour, populated with craggy, windswept mountains and superstitions [...]

Frances Carden2025-01-12T12:39:06-07:00January 12th, 2025|Tags: book review, classic, horror, read, reading|

Small House at Allington, The

Affairs of the Heart Author: Anthony Trollope The Small House at Allington starts with a whirlwind spring courtship. Poor but pretty Lily Dale has found the man of her dreams. Crosbie, her happy suitor, thinks that Lily’s rich uncle, who has benevolently given her impoverished family a place to live, will gift her with a large dowry. When he finds out that he is mistaken, however, he grows distant. He thinks about other opportunities, wasted chances, an old love he was close to wooing, and he begins to plan his way out. He may be a cad, but it is better [...]

Frances Carden2025-01-04T19:11:50-07:00January 4th, 2025|Tags: Barsetshire, book review, Chronicles of Barsetshire, classic, read, reading, trollope|