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I noticed that Lit Net has a number of Wodehouse texts available. I have mostly stuck to Jeeves and Wooster; also a bit of Psmith. This title caught my eye: Jill the Reckless.

Reading has always (well, almost always ) been both a comfort and an escape for me. When I am feeling blue, it is just nice to be able to read something and feel cheered up by it. Wodehouse is one author that almost always brings a smile to my face, so I started to read "Jill" ....yes, P.G. does it again.

Freddie Rooke gazed coldly at the breakfast-table. Through a gleaming eye-glass he inspected the revolting object which Barker, his faithful man, had placed on a plate before him.

"Barker!" His voice had a ring of pain.

"Sir?"

"What's this?"

"Poached egg, sir."

Freddie averted his eyes with a silent shudder.

"It looks just like an old aunt of mine," he said. "Remove it!"

"We are not breakfasting this morning," he replied. "The spirit was willing, but the jolly old flesh would have none of it. To be perfectly frank, the Last of the Rookes has a bit of a head."

"A**!" said Derek.

"A bit of sympathy," said Freddie, pained, "would not be out of place. We are far from well. Some person unknown has put a threshing-machine inside the old bean and substituted a piece of brown paper for our tongue. Things look dark and yellow and wobbly!"

"You shouldn't have overdone it last night."

"It was Algy Martyn's birthday," pleaded Freddie.

"If I were an a** like Algy Martyn," said Derek, "I wouldn't go about advertising the fact that I'd been born. I'd hush it up!"

You can find the Literature Networks complete searchable text of Jill the Reckless here.

You can also download it and have it available offline by going here.

I hope at least one of you reading this will give it a try. Although I forgot to mention in my interview, Wodehouse is one of my favorite authors.