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Not my favorite by Pam, but a pleasant way to end a busy day. First Christmas dinner down. Two more to go.

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Late but…
1) Tagged
2)Sagoke Natsukawa
3)Bob Newhart Show
4)Nirvana
5)Nowhere Man

Barbara Pym is a joy to read.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/06/14/barbara-pym-appreciation/

Another charming comedy of manners from Barbara Pym. Dulcie, an excellent woman, engages in some borderline stalking, while her friends & family stumble through a series of romantic entanglements. I loved it. Thank you again @LeahBergen

Barbara Pym explains the Victoria Plum joke in Miss Plum and Miss Penny. A very weak joke indeed!

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Leah, I hope I'm right in thinking these books are from you? Thank you for your good wishes, my friend, it's so kind of you to think of me💕😘 I am very much looking forward to reading more Pym.

@LeahBergen

Sometimes it‘s nice to take a break from all that modern literature in which things seem to hurtle at breakneck speed and every chapter switches perspective until my head spins. Alright I‘m just being dramatic here, a lot of times that headspinning thing happens in a good way. I do love me a convoluted plot and multiple POV narration. But it‘s nice to slow things down with a more gentle read. Gentle yes but still full of wit and humour.

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Artwork by David Gista. There‘s a bunch of other wonderful library-themed artwork on his webpage, davidgista.com.

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Oh what a surprise this book was for me. I wonder if this was the inspiration for the Dalhousie novels, because it reminded me a good bit of those musings.

Don't miss this rare sale on Barbara Pym, whose comedies of manners are so masterful she is perpetually compared with Jane Austen. The plot summary sounds like a sweet romance, but Pym's gimlet eye misses nothing, skewers the foolish, and rests finally on the consolations of singleness.

Probably not my favorite of Pym novels, but excellent nevertheless, and a good read for a lazy Sunday.

"Sitting aimlessly in bedrooms -- often on the bed itself -- is another characteristic feature of English holidays."

"The things women did to men!"