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Not so much a blog; just lots of books

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The Grace Year
Kim Liggett
The New Voices of Science Fiction
Jamie Wahls, Sarah Pinkser, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Rebecca Roanhorse, S. Qiouyi Lu, Darcie Little Badger, Kelly Robson, Nino Cipri, Amal El-Mohtar, Sam J. Miller, E. Lily Yu, Alice Sola Kim, Suzanne Palmer, Alexander Weinstein, Rich Larson
Progress: 13%
Engineering Animals: How Life Works
Alan Mcfadzean, Mark Denny
Progress: 125/314pages
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Nicholas P. Money
Conservation of Shadows
Yoon Ha Lee
Progress: 22%
Le premier jour
Marc Levy
Progress: 180/496pages
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
Herman Melville
Manifold: Time
Stephen Baxter, Chris Schluep
Progress: 99/480pages
The Long War
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Progress: 68/501pages

I wish I could bring back the expression "What ho!"

Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse

An entertaining read although not a brilliant one.  I may have too high hopes for Wodehouse in general.

 

Part of the problem may have lain in the fact that throughout the book, Bertie insists on attempting to puzzle out solutions to the various problems himself rather than rely on Jeeves.

 

Mild spoilers (probably fine, but I am giving away the newts a bit):

We find ourselves at Brinkley Court, where Bertie gets called down by his Aunt Dahlia when Tuppy and Bertie's cousin Angela break off their engagement over a shark (or lack of shark).  Another of Bertie's friends gets bogged down by newts whenever he tries to propose to his lady-love (he gets nervous and starts talking about newts, his area of expertise.  Needless to say, after the newt lecture, the girl eventually just  walks away).

(show spoiler)

 

Meanwhile, Bertie keeps coming up with schemes on his own rather than rely on Jeeves because he thinks Jeeves's are too elaborate.  To be fair, Jeeves's proposals are a bit elaborate, especially the last one.