I love the Blandings Castle books! Have you read Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather yet? They,re my favourites by Wodehouse. (Weather is a direct sequel to Lightning)
“Marcus Lepidus, Tribune of the Cohors Thraciani Tertio and the chief Roman officer in Bononia looked out northward from the walls of the fort his men were stationed in and watched the columns of smoke rising from various places in the distance.” Rolling South - Peter Rhodan
“Here beginneth a Pratica, very helpful to all who have to do with commercial art commonly known as the abacus.” translation of The Treviso Arithmetic 1478
As a teenager, Franklin Edward Kameny easily observed the problem.
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
Grantville
October 1631
Vladimir Gorchakov pulled his horse up as he saw Boris Ivanovich Petrov stopping to look around.
1636: The Kremlin Games , by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, and Paula Goodlett
Wosnan is a paradise on Earth, or at least a paradise in North Korea.
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield.
I should read this–I thought I’d read all of the Blandings Castle books, but I’m sure I didn’t read this one.
“The shuttle arrives at 7:00 a.m. sharp, but on a Tuesday morning in Culver City, California, the hotel lobby begins to fill much earlier.”
Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History and Insider’s Guide to Jeopardy!, by Claire McNear
“If Jessica Soule had known how close the bears were, of course she wouldn’t have gone outside that afternoon, no matter how damn hot her living room got.”
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Anne Jefferson studied herself in the mirror, then turned sideways and spent a few more seconds with the examination.
“The Masque”, by Eric Flint
First story in Grantville Gazette VI, edited by Eric Flint
“Something wants to eat you,” called Almost Brilliant from her perch in a nearby tree, “and I shall not be sorry if it does.”
The Empress of Salt and Fortune, by Nghi Vo
We’re currently reading the same book. Cool!
ETA: since your post is three weeks old, maybe not. But cool still.
I shut the door of the old Victorian behind me, and the stuffy atmosphere closed in: overheated, dry, and redolent of mothballs.
Winter Tide, by Ruthanna Emrys.
I’m starting the third one. I waited until the entire trilogy was released because I hate waiting a year between books in a series. Or, worse yet, starting a series that never gets completed.
“She’s painfully slow,
so I often have to stop and wait
while she examines some roadside weeds
as if she were reading the biography of a famous dog.”
From “Walking My Seventy-Five-Year-Old Dog” in Whale Day and Other Poems, by Billy Collins
“The consumption engineer is the big job of the immediate future.” Followed by “He will outrank the sales manager and give orders to the production manager. It is not his job to sell what the factory makes, but to teach the factory to make what the consumer will buy.”.—Legendary adman Earnest Elmo Calkins, 1930
The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture, by Timothy D Taylor.
ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/50100/1/277.pdf
If the old cliche is true that “a picture is worth a thousand words”, we have a 500,000-word volume in front of us here.
– Selling the Sunshine State: A Celebration of Florida Tourism Advertising by Tim Hollis
“It was at the Great Exhibition that I first saw my cousin, and even then I could not be think of it as a convergence, not merely of the great new powers of industry and machines with those of hill and tree, but of different times.”
The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood
“Our story begins in a run-down bar in Key West, not so many years from now. The bar is not the one Hemingway drank at, nor yet the one that claims to be the one he drank at, because they are both too expensive and full of tourists.”
The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
“Growing up, we had a fan in our apartment that made a loud clicking noise.”
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team, by Arshay Cooper.