Archive for August 11, 2009
SELF’S MURDER by Bernhard Schlink
I can be slow on the uptake, so it doesn’t much upset me that I didn’t understand the title to this book until I was walking the dog the morning after I’d finished it. Then, in sort of a forehead slapping a-ha moment, I got it. It, the title, is meant to send you off in one direction, only to surprise you and whip you back in another.
August 11, 2009
Tags: Around-the-World, Sleuth Posted in: End-of-Life, Germany, Literary, Sleuths Series, World Literature 
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GALAHAD AT BLANDINGS by P.G. Wodehouse
In this ninth of his eleven Blandings Castle farces, P. G. Wodehouse brings a large cast of mostly repeating characters to Blandings Castle in Shropshire, where their adolescent behavior, their misplaced values, and their obliviousness to real issues in a real world, allow Wodehouse to create gentle but pointed satire of the British upperclass, of which he himself was also a member.
August 11, 2009
Tags: 1920s, Humorous Posted in: Classic, Humorous, Satire No Comments
