Wodehouse in July

I'm excited to announce that for the July book club we'll be discussing stories from The Most of P.G. Wodehouse in Prospect Park on Sunday, July 27th! This will be, by far, the tweediest book club meeting we'll ever have. I'll bring the scones!


Although Wodehouse is a breeze to read, he's also extremely prolific, and as such I picked the edition that you should be able to find no matter how many (or few) Wodehouse books there are at your favorite bookstore.

Also, as this is kind of a big book, in order to make sure that everyone enjoys this month's choice and it never feels like a chore I've included a guide for what people should read and what they can skip over in this collection:

DEFINITELY, ABSOLUTELY READ:

All Drones Club stories
All Jeeves Stories
The Lord Emsworth story

DEFINITELY, IF THERE'S TIME:

Mulliner Stories

IF YOU'RE KILLING TIME (say, on a bus to Atlantic City)

Stanley Featherstone Ukeridge stories

NO NEED:

Golf Stories
Quick Service

More details (such as where we'll meet at the park, back-up plans if it's supposed to rain, etc.) to come!

Charles Bock Reading June 18th

Even more extra credit!

Charles Bock will be reading in NYC on June 18th at Housing Works, starting at 7 PM. Housing Works is a great little bookstore in Soho that sells booze, which of course means members of this book club can attend this literary event without worrying about a bad case of the DT's.

I'll be headed over for sure, and possibly even taking notes for the blog. If anyone else is interested, hit me up in the comments. A critical mass means we can even meet up for happy hour at Botanica beforehand.

*Sidenote: I found this information while perusing the website for Beautiful Children. I was actually trying to get to the bio information, but the stupid Easter eggs got in my way and I wound up in the events page. I have to say, that website kind of made me want to punch someone in the face. Cripes. I suppose it might be good if you somehow accidentally stumbled on it and had NO idea what the book was, but as far as going with the intention of, I don't know, securing information on the author or the novel, it's a no-go.