"Whimsy & Soda" by Matthew David Brozik was as
entertaining as it was short - I found it a delightful, funny little
story all lovers of P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves"-books will enjoy.
The characters are Bertie
Wooster and Jeeves, the pair so well known from many novels. The
novelette covers one day in their life, beginning with a morning after a
particularly... erm, lively night at the club, when
Bertie wakes and finds himself changed beyond recognition.
The ensuing dialogues between
the two men, how Jeeves goes about reversing the change in his
employer, and Bertie's thoughts - it all makes for fun reading and made me
wish for this hommage to Wodehouse to last longer.
Needless to say this was a
free ebook from Amazon's kindle store. If you can find it and happen to
be a Wodehouse fan (I devoured stacks of his novels in my late teens/early
twenties), read it; you won't be disappointed!
The author's website is here. Take some time to browse the site's contents; M. D. Brozik offers a surprising range of subjects well worth exploring. Someone who describes himself as "wordsmithy, fictioneer and lone punman" certainly deserves to be read!
PS: After I had published my last review, I decided to get in touch with the author, as I have done a few times in the past. And I was not disappointed - Arthur Slade replied to my email and posted a comment on my review!
I ADORE P.G. Wodehouse!! I shall look for this on my Nook. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, Jennifer! Always happy to meet another Wodehouse fan :-)
DeleteOnly as an ebook and only in the EU.......... :-{
ReplyDeleteHave you checked the author's website, Kristi? He links to his books on Amazon, I believe.
DeleteThank you for the suggestion. I went to amazon from the author's website and was able to get it as a free kindle book!
DeleteThat's great! Did you see that the author has commented here now, too? I am ever so pleased and didn't expect this honour!
DeleteThere is something about the harmless and inoffensive whimsy of Jeeves and Wooster that has always appealed to me but, inexplicably, has never really tempted me to read many of the books.
ReplyDeleteBefore I had my kindle and came in touch with such a huge mix of books, most of my reading was in "phases". I had a Fantasy phase, a Historic Novel phase, a Biographies phase, and so on. My Wodehouse phase was while I was working at the library and had easiest access to those books.
DeleteAlas, WHIMSY & SODA is available only for Kindle, not Nook. (And it's not always free... but I do make it free fairly often, so keep your eyes open and your fingers ready.) Glad you enjoyed it as much as you did. And I'm most grateful for the review on Amazon!
ReplyDeleteYou are very welcome - and I am most grateful for your comment here, such an unexpected surprise! (It wouldn't be a surprise if it were expected, would it?)
DeleteI was lucky in that it was free when I happened to come across it; I know it isn't right now, but in my opinion, well worth the small amount.
First of all, you're embarrassing me by calling me "the author"! I'm just a regular guy who had to self-publish this collection because the hot-shot agent at the big-deal agency I had couldn't sell it. But then something very interesting happened, which you might want to read about: I nearly had to sue the Estate of P.G. Wodehouse. I wrote about that here: www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/beg-differ/
ReplyDeleteOK, you're a regular guy who happens to be an author - or did someone else write "Whimsy & Soda"? :-)
DeleteThanks for the link, I am going to check it out in a minute!
Oh, also: WHIMSY & SODA is free again today! Grab it & enjoy it... or your no money back!
ReplyDeleteThe lady who signs as "Thickethouse" here has already grabbed it :-)
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