Goooooooooooood morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever you might happen to be!
Firstly, a belated thank-you to the PBP readers who joined me for my first online jokewriting workshop the other week! People came up with fabulous ideas for joke topics, and we had real fun batting possible joke approaches around! I’ll definitely have to do another one of those in the near future….
I hope you all enjoyed last week’s interview with
! She’s got thrillers and rom-com/mom-coms to offer for beach reading, which is kind of the theme of this week’s post!I’ll be traveling until the middle of August, which means there won’t be new PBP posts between now and then. Instead, I’ll be sharing some of the most popular PBP posts from the archive, for free! So if you’re currently locked out of your favourite post, stay tuned—it might just pop up in the next few weeks!
For this week, I thought I’d share a few recommendations for vacation reading and solicit recommendations from you folks! Here are a few of my favourites (to which should now be added Liz’z book Claire Casey’s Had Enough!):
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters: This is his masterpiece, no doubt about it. For hilarious hijinks involving silver cow creamers, little black notebooks, and ‘prismatic’ tweed suits, get ahold of this oldie-but-goodie!
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night: I was reminded of how wonderful this book is by
, who posted a note about it some little time ago. If you’re a fan of Oxbridge backdrops and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, this is the book for you.- , Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers: I tore through this thing so quickly, and if you’re a comedy nerd you will, too!
Tabitha Carvan, This is NOT a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: It took me awhile before I decided to purchase this one, and I’m so glad I did. This extremely funny and poignant book about a woman’s obsessive love for BC pulled me right in from the start. In fact, I think I might need to reread it….
Are there any books you’d recommend for vacation reading? Please share them in the comments section below so we can all enjoy! And have a beautiful month.
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Thank you so much for recommending Claire! A friend just gave me Mike Sacks's book. We'll have to compare notes! This is NOT a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch sounds so interesting! So glad your jokewriting workshop was a success! Enjoy your travels!
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers is popping up everywhere this summer, glad to see you’re recommending it too! I have enjoyed delving into it again & you have inspired me to think about other good summer reading.