Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Read in 2016 - 10: Whimsy & Soda

"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!

14 comments:

  1. I ADORE P.G. Wodehouse!! I shall look for this on my Nook. Thank you!

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    1. You are welcome, Jennifer! Always happy to meet another Wodehouse fan :-)

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  2. Only as an ebook and only in the EU.......... :-{

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    1. Have you checked the author's website, Kristi? He links to his books on Amazon, I believe.

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    2. Thank you for the suggestion. I went to amazon from the author's website and was able to get it as a free kindle book!

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    3. That's great! Did you see that the author has commented here now, too? I am ever so pleased and didn't expect this honour!

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  3. There 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.

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    1. Before 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.

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  4. Alas, 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!

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    1. You 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?)
      I 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.

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  5. 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/

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    1. OK, you're a regular guy who happens to be an author - or did someone else write "Whimsy & Soda"? :-)
      Thanks for the link, I am going to check it out in a minute!

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  6. Oh, also: WHIMSY & SODA is free again today! Grab it & enjoy it... or your no money back!

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    1. The lady who signs as "Thickethouse" here has already grabbed it :-)

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