Lockdown blues solved! Ignore the late-night news and the troubled dreams it brings. Instead substitute a chapter of Stephen Fry’s excellent new recording of his favourite Jeeves and Wooster books on
In his second published outing in PG Wodehouse land,
Jeeves and the Leap of Faith, Ben Schott drives a much too freighted plot vehicle
In his first foray into PG Wodehouse homage/imitation/pastiche (whichever it my be),
Sure, he tweaked it a bit, and inserted a few knowing contemporary winks and modes of speech into his faithful Woostery weave. But he didn t run way with his own smart-assery or tweak the original formula too much. Yes, he had a few pages of glossary but they seemed restrained, in their place, a mild adjunct subservient to the lively yarn.
The yarn in other words was paramount. Why on this occasion did I find a second appearance of such glossary notes over-bearing, too eager to put up their hand, to show off like a way too eager pupil? Your reviewer would in fact countenance not bothering at all with the notes until the reader is finished the story. Referring back and forth to the notes slows down the reading experience and at times they are even gratuitous