Jeeves Series - P. G. Wodehouse

Tea and biscuits for the soul.

I know I am courting controversy with this opinion. I much prefer listening to Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories in audiobook format to reading them. There. I said it. And I will further say, that I specifically favor the narration by Jonathan Cecil. He really makes the dialogues between Bertie and Jeeves come alive. Cecil’s Bertie is perfectly generous-minded yet daft, while his Jeeves “shimmers” in and out of conversations with a “very good, sir” that is loaded with meaning. 

Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories have been  longstanding favorites of mine. I started listening to them again as we began our Covid isolation, and they have been a comforting, gently humorous time pass for me. You can always count on Bertie to get himself into a gigantic scrape with layers of uncomfortable, aristocratic faux pas. But while these stories are strewn with hijinks and colossal misunderstandings, with Jeeves on the scene, you know that things will turn out neatly in the end. And  right now, that’s just the comfort we all need. 

Also, I think Aunt Dahlia is my spirit animal.