This has been my week of humorous books. The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion appeared on my shelf of newly arrived books for teens. I'm not sure why it was catalogued in teen rather than adult, but it would be popular in either. It's a tongue-in-cheek etiquette guide describing twenty scenarios of deflowerment, followed by Miss Hyacinthe Phypps' brief and useless advice on the matter. Edward Gorey's expressive and funny victorian-esque drawings tell half the story. I'd read it just for them.
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