Joy in the Morning – P G Wodehouse (Book).

Book: 2/52.
Joy in the Morning – P G Wodehouse
My Rating: 5/5

PGW is my all-time favorite Author whenever I am looking to laugh out loud while reading a book . Last time I remember I read one of his right after I finished Mr King’s “The Shining” and couldn’t sleep out of sheer terror that it gave me. I was reading it in the dead of the night to forget the horror I had gone through earlier in the day, and PGW had me in splits with Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves’ histrionics whenever he gets in trouble with his love life or his terrific aunt Agatha (not Christie though) and his friends in need of good advice. I laughed out so loud that my mother, who was then visiting me, threated me to throw me out of the house as if I had gone crazy. She only let go of it when I showed her the book cover, and then she warned me to read a PGW only when I am alone and its proper day light so as not to bother anyone around . Of course, this one was no different, with Wooster and Jeeves game on again, but this time in a totally different fix. So, the story goes that Bertie’s Ex is now engaged with one of his friends, and there is a threat that she might bounce back on him, much to his distaste, but he always has Jeeves to his rescue, and how they solve it again had me in splits by simply kicking someone’s backside, how you ask me or rather whose? You’ve got to read the book to find out. In between, there were so many parallel tracks, one with one of his close buddies who became a constable and that too a very serious and law-abiding and implementing one, how he bothers Bertie is another story. The less said about his much-loved (or hated) uncle, who has his own secret challenge to go through, and then there is this fancy dress party where all of them come together and are saved by none other than our own genius Jeeves, who, if served fish for breakfast, can have his mind work in full speed on solutions for all. 

 

The best part of any PGW book is the interactions between two souls, which always start with a Ho! And go on Twiddle Doon for the reader, or can go to have a concatenation in between. I laughed at this love for Shakespeare, whom he still doesn’t credit for any of his writings, but his ghostwriter gets all the credit. Also, I totally agree when his friends compare him to no one else but Earnest Hemingway,  self-praise is best, but one that leaves a huge smile on my face always. So, in this little gem of a book, which lasted only 3 days, all Bertie’s forebodings are fully justified. In his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce for his uncle, promote the course of true love for himself and a dear friend and to avoid the consequences of a vendetta coming his way to send him out of the country, he becomes prey of all and sundry; in fact, only Jeeves can save him and how. 

 

Do let me know if you have read this one and loved it, or if you have a personal favourite from PGW. I so much wish one of his books was adapted as a movie or a TV series so I could give faces to so many much-loved characters. I am looking forward to reading at least half a dozen of his books this year to make him my most-read author of the year .