Q: In The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Frankie is changed by the novels of P.G. Wodehouse. It is kind of an unusual choice, do you think that your readers will understand the literary reference and what does this say about the character? Did you read Wodehouse as a teen?
EL: I read Wodehouse as a teen. Exhaustively. In my 20s I was a member of the Wodehouse society. They're books about 25 year-old men cavorting in a club and romancing girls and getting into trouble. They're hysterically funny. No reason many teens wouldn't love them. But I don't expect my readers to know Wodehouse already. There's a pretty exhaustive explanation of what the books mean to Frankie.
* I also caved and bought 3 more Louise Rennison books today. I've been taking them out of the library, but someone had book 7 the last few times I looked for it, and now it's winter which is when I'm too coldy to go to the library on my day off. So I expect to be royally entertained veddy veddy soon. (Though I will, sadly, read them all in a couple days. At least I still have 3 more Lockhart books to read.)We have a staff special this weekend on bargain books, so I also bought Martha Beck's last book, Steering by Starlight. She's one of the life coaches I quite like.
