This is the third Jeeves and Wooster book I have read this week. Unlike the other two (Carry on,Jeeves and the Inimitable Jeeves) which were collections of short stories, this is a novel. But that does not hinder the wizard Wodehouse whose word play, as usual, would leave you breathless.
This book has one important exception with regard to the other Jeeves/Wooster books. Jeeves goes on vacation during the start and turns up pretty late in the end. However, this just gives Wooster more excuses to indulge in silly stuff. The reader is surely going to be amused(as usual) by the antics he indulges in.
Wooster finds out he has been engaged while surfing through the matrimonial pages of the Times(see above photograph). He is invited by his aunt Dahlia to come to her village home wherein he crosses path with his old nemesis, Sir Glossop, the "loony doctor", who for reasons of his own is playing the butler. He is asked by his aunt to help in thwarting the advances of a New York playboy towards a young lady who is also a guest there. The father of the lady was Wooster's principal in school and Wooster still gets incubus starring him.
I read three fourths of the book yesterday and finished the rest today morning. I just could not get into the rhythm of the day before and hence found the enjoyment abating a bit.
Hence for reasons of my own I gave this a four rather than a perfect five which it would have got if I would have finished with yesterday itself.
As for Wodehouse, I don't have the appropriate superlatives in my vocabulary to do justice to his talent. I would just say that the time I spend engrossed in his books is the best time of my day. He takes my mind away from all its daily worries and I love him for the same.
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