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A review by jadziadax
Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
5.0
"That was the question I asked myself. What price the hippogriffs?"
"Over in America, it appears, life for the businessman is one long series of large cups of coffee, punctured with shocks from the New Deal."
" 'It's the same with me. I am a gazelle short. You don't mind me alluding to you as a gazelle, Jeeves?'
'Not at all, sir.' "
Joy in the Morning is basically Bertie experiencing a build-up of worse and worse situations. He's absolutely right - never go to Steeple Bumphleigh. It's like a Bertie nightmare, featuring young lovers wanting his help, intimidating uncles, undercover meetings, and one of his most feared ex-fiancees, Florence Craye (she likes to mold fiance's brains and just informs them that they are going be married-- no accidental proposal even needed).
This book also makes me appreciate that there is no comedy "straight man" in this series. I mean, Jeeves is the smart one and therefore, you'd think that would make him the straight man, but he's really not. He's quirky in his own right, prone to going off on little rants of poetry quoting. And of course, throughout the series, he is extremely touchy about clothing items. It also makes me appreciate -- well, all the books do-- the fact that P.G. Wodehouse must have had a tremendous grasp on English and beyond literature. There's countless references, from Bertie's almost complete quotations and Jeeves's perfect ones.
"Over in America, it appears, life for the businessman is one long series of large cups of coffee, punctured with shocks from the New Deal."
" 'It's the same with me. I am a gazelle short. You don't mind me alluding to you as a gazelle, Jeeves?'
'Not at all, sir.' "
Joy in the Morning is basically Bertie experiencing a build-up of worse and worse situations. He's absolutely right - never go to Steeple Bumphleigh. It's like a Bertie nightmare, featuring young lovers wanting his help, intimidating uncles, undercover meetings, and one of his most feared ex-fiancees, Florence Craye (she likes to mold fiance's brains and just informs them that they are going be married-- no accidental proposal even needed).
This book also makes me appreciate that there is no comedy "straight man" in this series. I mean, Jeeves is the smart one and therefore, you'd think that would make him the straight man, but he's really not. He's quirky in his own right, prone to going off on little rants of poetry quoting. And of course, throughout the series, he is extremely touchy about clothing items. It also makes me appreciate -- well, all the books do-- the fact that P.G. Wodehouse must have had a tremendous grasp on English and beyond literature. There's countless references, from Bertie's almost complete quotations and Jeeves's perfect ones.