Give Satisfaction

One of these heroes, created by the immortal humorist P.G. Wodehouse, is a charming and brilliant British valet employed by a member of the idle rich named Bertie Wooster, to Wooster’s perpetual relief; the other is a 6-foot-5 former military police investigator and Marine sniper-contest champion who wanders America punching his way into and out of trouble thanks to the wonderfully artless imagination of Lee Child. These are the characters whose stories I’ve been craving since this nightmare began. I kicked off my pandemic reading binge by pulling a Jeeves anthology from the bookshelf and a Reacher novel from the public library. Once the libraries closed, I maintained my fix by downloading Reacher novels to my phone. I end each day in bed mentally spooning with one of these two goofy, gallant men.