Fiction – Meditations

June 30, 2025

Review: The Mating Season, P.G. Wodehouse

Rating: 5 out of 5 The author is a genius of the novella; the adventures of Jeeves and Worcester never fail to entertain though…

July 19, 2023

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Mulliner’s stories are an excellent pastime just like any other Wodehouse. I think the strength of these stories…

July 19, 2023

Rating: 5 out of 5 Wodehouse is excellent! What else needs to be said? Jeeves can often have the listener in fits of laughter…

March 17, 2023

Rating: 2 out of 5 This was my first foray into Austen and I suspect that it will stay so for a while. Not…

May 3, 2022

Rating: 5 out of 5 From starting to read this book, I laughed almost constantly. The situations that Mr Wodehouse had construed are so…

January 12, 2022

Rating: 5 out of 5 I knew about this title for a long while, and yet I never thought to pick it up. What…

October 5, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 A thoroughly enjoyable spy-novel, I actually picked this up after Mr Hopkirk mentioned it for about the thirtieth time…

August 7, 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5 I heard about this story from a history of American 19th century thinking where the short story was described…

June 29, 2021

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was really enjoying this book until the end, where the plagues that have riddled the previous Longmire books…

May 26, 2021

Rating: 3 out of 5 I wasn’t overly impressed by this… Mr Johnson becomes ever more repetitive with every volume in his series. The…