My Man Jeeves

I get why this kind of humor was popular around the beginning of the twentieth century, but generally slapstick humor isn't much to my taste. The trickery of it just isn't that funny to me, and reminded me a little bit of The Canterbury Tales, which I also wasn't crazy about. This “brilliant” butler who is always making up ways to get his employer — Bertie Wooster — and Mr. Wooster's friends out of scrapes, but whose plans always get caught out or end up backfiring, and while things usually turn out fine in the end, it all seems like so much unnecessary trouble.

Plus, Mr. Wooster uses the word “chappie” too much.

I feel old and codgity.My family has always used the word “codgity,” but I didn't know how to spell it, so I googled it and apparently it isn't a word and my whole life is a lie. But this book counts toward Read Harder (a humor book), so yay for small wins.