Day 05 – A book that makes you happyThe books that cheer me up the most are P.G. Wodehouse's books and in particular his Jeeves and Wooster stories .. how can you not smile at a cast of characters such as Harold 'Stinker' Pinker, 'Gussie' Fink-Nottle, 'Tuppy' Glossop, 'Catsmeat' Potter-Pirbright, 'Stilton' Cheesewright and 'Chuffy' Chuffnell. Bertie is just so lovably dense, he's always getting into scrapes, hiding from his formidable Aunts, falling in and out of love and finding himself engaged - usually against his wishes - to all sorts of unsuitable females and it's left to Jeeves of course to always save the day. My favourite book of his is probably 'Right Ho Jeeves' .. just because I love the ridiculously drippy Madeline Basset (who thinks that the stars are God's daisy-chain) and her equally soppy suitor .. the newt fancier .. Gussie Fink-Nottle.
You can't be gloomy when you read Wodehouse it's impossible, he'll cheer you up before the end of the first page.
Seeing the books come to life on screen with the sublime Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry was just the icing on the cake .. the first two series in particular were phenomenal.
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