Wodehouse, P.G. Carry On, Jeeves. New York: A.L. Burt, 1927.
This book just feels good in my hands. Published 10 years before my father was even born, it even looks its age. I guess I just like old books.
Carry on, Jeeves is a series of stories about how Jeeves acts as man-servant while repeatedly saving the day for Bertram Wooster. Each chapter sets up a different dilemma “Bertie” and/or his friends face and how Jeeves cleverly resolves every one of those dilemmas. There is a formula to these moments of crisis: someone is usually misleading a family member (usually an aunt) to think he is wealthy, in another part of the country, worth marrying, not worth marrying, etc. Jeeves’s solution is to mislead the “aunt” with a lie or two. The lie is the smallest of gestures and usually something humorous happens – like the plan backfiring. While the general plot seems repetitious, Wodehouse’s style of writing is very funny. Side note: Bertie and Jeeves always seem to get into curious arguments about fashion.
Lines I liked: “I strained the old bean to meet this emergency” (p 47).
“I’m never much of a lad till I’ve engulfed an egg or two and a beaker of coffee (p 89).
“If this was going to be a fish-story, I needed stimulants” (p 167).
BookLust Twist: From More Book Lust in the chapter “P.G. Wodehouse: Too Good To Miss” (p 235). What I find hysterical about Pearl’s entry is her first sentence: “If you can ignore his somewhat rummy behavior…” (p 235). “Rummy” is a word Wodehouse uses over and over and over in Carry On, Jeeves.
~*LunaSea*~ 
Wow, I have always loved PG Wodehouse but I have to admit I never read the books until after I had already seen the BBC series starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. So when I did pick up my first PG Wodehouse, I couldn’t get their voices out of my head for their respective characters.
The same thing happens when I see a music video. After that, anytime I hear the song on the radio I see the video in my head.