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A review by jmcphers
Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
4.0
Undoubtedly one of my favorite P.G. Wodehose books. It is very similar in style and content to the other Jeeves and Wooster books, and in fact after reading too many of them you might rightly feel as though they are all good-natured rearrangements of the same comic furniture. We have engagements, both Good and Bad. We have a trinket of some kind, the attainment and location of which is a constant source of stress. There's love, confusion, petty theft, mistaken identity, and of course a variety of sticky situations from which the characters are only able to extricate themselves with the help of Wooster's unflappable butler.
While this book follows the typical Wodehouse plot, it just feels more polished than many of his other works. There magnificent synchronicity with which the subplots stumble into each other is nearly without parallel in the Wodehouse canon. Perhaps I read it at a vulnerable time, but it also caused me to laugh out loud so much that my wife's repeated remarks of "Gee, you're really enjoying that book" began to take on a worried tone. While it's hard to go wrong with Jeeves and Wooster, this one comes especially well reocmmended.
While this book follows the typical Wodehouse plot, it just feels more polished than many of his other works. There magnificent synchronicity with which the subplots stumble into each other is nearly without parallel in the Wodehouse canon. Perhaps I read it at a vulnerable time, but it also caused me to laugh out loud so much that my wife's repeated remarks of "Gee, you're really enjoying that book" began to take on a worried tone. While it's hard to go wrong with Jeeves and Wooster, this one comes especially well reocmmended.