A Wodehouse Bestiary

 A Wodehouse Bestiary by P.G. Wodehouse 329 pp.

This is a collection of short stories and random chapters from Wodehouse novels, some including Jeeves & Wooster, and all involving animals in some way. In one there is a house that seems to cause residents and visitors, even anti-hunting ones, to become rabid about hunting and killing game animals. Another has a potentially doomed engagement salvaged because of a dog and a cowardly suitor but with no help from a dog food salesman. In a third, a trip to the horse track helps a friend of Bertie Wooster's get rid of a troubling house guest who has endangered his marriage by forcing them into an extreme vegetarian diet. These are just a few of the classic Wodehouse tales collected in this volume. Some I read before in other collections but many were new to me. It's enjoyable, humorous, frequently silly, light reading.

My Man Jeeves

My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse  157 pp.

I love the Jeeves and Wooster stories and have for years. Every so often I revisit them because they are such fun to read. This short collection was first published in 1919 and features four Jeeves stories and four about another Wodehouse character, Reggie Pepper, who apparently was an early prototype for Bertie Wooster but not quite as dim. The audiobook version is well read by Simon Prebble.