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"Uncle Dynamite" P.G. Wodehouse

Sydney M. Williams www.burrowingintobooks.blogspot.com Burrowing into Books Reviews of Selective Readings                                                                                                                                         March 9, 2019 “Uncle Dynamite” P.G. Wodehouse “ He looked pleased with himself, and who shall blame him? A man whose   mission is to spread sweetness and light and to bring the young folk together may   surely be forgiven a touch of complacency when happy endings start going off like   crackers all around him and he sees the young folk coming together in droves .”                                                                                                             P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)                                                                                                             Uncle Dynamite , 1948 Wodehouse published his first book, The Pothunters , in 1902, when he

"My Twenty-Five Years in Provence" Peter Mayle

Sydney M. Williams www.burrowingintobooks.blogspot.com Burrowing into Books Reviews of Selective Readings                                                                                                                                          March 6, 2019 “My Twenty-Five Years in Provence” Peter Mayle “ After several months our luck finally changed. We found a house on a hillside, with several thousand acres of the Luberon Natural Regional Park at the end of the back garden, a modest vineyard and the fine old village of M é nerbes two minutes away. ”                                                                                                 Peter Mayle (1939-2018)                                                                                                 My Twenty-Five years in Provence , 2019 Peter Mayle and Provence have been as one, since his first book A Year in Provence was published in 1989. He and his wife, in the