I recommend to Blog Alley readers a delightful memoir from the prolific pen and fertile mind of Christopher Buckley. As is probably known by now, and by all, “Losing Mum and Pup” chronicles the loss, within a year of each other, of Buckley’s mother and father, Patricia and William F. Buckley, Jr.

For those of you familiar with, and fans of, Mr. Buckley, it would be no surprise that the book is by turns witty—make that hysterical—poignant, profound, elliptical, insightful, and warm.

It was infused with a moving spirituality that is cleverly intermixed with the earthy and the profane. (Have I forgotten any adverbs and/or adjectives?)

The subject matter is, of course, inexhaustible and potentially dangerous in the hands of an only child with a laserlike wit, but Mr. Buckley has fashioned a remarkable tribute that transforms his father, the intellectual progenitor of 20th Century conservatism, and his mother, the zany, beautiful, and socially accomplished doyenne of New York society, into normal, needful, flawed, funny, accomplished, and always interesting, human beings. It is a beautiful eulogy!