Well, I had a feeling that I wanted to read something a bit more light and fun this week, so I decided to take a look at My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. I've covered Right Ho, Jeeves in the past after I bought a giant Wodehouse collection, and I was surprised to discover that Right Ho is actually the sixth book in the series!
My Man Jeeves is the first book, published in 1919, and collecting stories published from 1911 through 1917, and that's the source of a big surprise, at least for me!
This one was a lot of fun! I borrowed a P.G. Wodehouse book from a colleague of mine ten or so years ago and really enjoyed it, but I never went back to the author... until this week! A friend of mine introduced me to the "Jeeves and Wooster" TV show as well as "Blandings," and I thought, why not read a little Wodehouse and see what I think?
Well, I picked up a big Wodehouse collection on Amazon, something like 4000 pages, and it turns out it only contains one of the like 15 Jeeves books and a collection of Jeeves short stories. Something about the licensing of Wodehouse's work puts his stuff all over the place.
Oh, well.
The book I read for this review is Right Ho, Jeeves, which is apparently the second Jeeves novel. This one was released in 1934, which is the same year the first Nero Wolfe book was published. Odd coincidence, but auspicious.
