I have to admit psomething. As much as I thought Right Ho, Jeeves was oojah-cum-pspiff (ha! I used it in a psentance!), I think I love Psmith (the P is silent like phthisis, psychic, ptarmigan, or pshrimp) more. Wodehouse was in fine, fine form here, and he had me rolling. Honestly. I had to be careful about drinking anything while reading for fear of damaging the library copy. Being a visual person, it takes a LOT to get me laughing when I read, but this one… well, it’s hilarious.
The plot — like I’m gathering most Wodehouse plots are — pretty convoluted. (Around and around in circles without ever going anywhere.) And very psilly. (Kind of like this review pso far.) Psmith is the son of a fish mogul, and is wanting out of the business. Can’t stand the pstuff. Pso, he puts an ad in the paper offering his pservices. He gets “hired” by the Honorable Freddy Threepwood (right ho!) to pinch his aunt’s necklace. There’s a good reason for this, but it’s much too complicated for this psimple review… Anyway. Psmith ends up at Blandings Castle, in the guise of a poet McTodd. Along the way he meets, and falls in love with, Eve Halliday, who is also going to Blandings Castle. Much psilliness, misconseptions, and humor enuses (including flower-pot throwing, mistaken identitites, Canadians posing as valets, dead bats, and pinched necklaces, of course).
Really. Just read the book. Right, ho.
The Book Nut 
I’ll have to see if our library has this one, because my inter-library loan didn’t come through for the one the ‘nookers’ were reading– hopefully, they’ll have one of them, at least, as I’m getting all jealous to be missing this month’s selection.
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I love this book a ton. 🙂
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YAY! I’m glad you used it in a sentence.I’ve never tried any Wodehouse but Jeeves. I’ll have to try it!
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This seems like a great book! I’ll have to add it to my to-read list!
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Jeeves is all right but I think the Blandings Castle pstories are much better. Psuch a delight! 😉
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Pso true, Julie. 😀
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I don’t think I’ve read this particular book, but I’ve read a short Psmith story and it was hilarious. I’ll have to see if I have this one on my shelf. I’ve collected Wodehouse books for years. I think he was a marvel.
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I am loving Right Ho so much. I have a feeling I’m going to be reading a lot of Wodehouse in the future.
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I’m just finishing Jeeves. It was fun, but not funny. I’m looking forward to reading Leave it to Psmith. Thanks for the great review. M.
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I just read my first Jeeves book and I was actually crying I was laughing so hard. This sounds like my next Wodehouse!
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Wonderful review! I’ve loved the Jeeves books for a few years, but it was only recently that I picked up some Blandings books, including this one. I love Psmith, and wish Wodehouse had written more about him.
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The very thing, my friend. Psmith is my favorite Wodehouse character: the brains of Jeeves, and the qualities of the bon vivant of Wooster, if not more of the latter. I’ve yet to read Leave It To Psmith, but I’ve read all the other Psmith stories, and have high hopes for the last of them.
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