No Doomsday Prepper should be without one. I escaped to Wodehouse a long time ago and was fortunate to enter 2020 fully equipped with a complet(ish) Wodehouse library. It’s no longer possible to keep up with the many articles and Wodehouse recommendations that continue to pop up, particularly online, but I’ve included a selection from 2020 for further reading at the end of this piece. But in 2020, readers are giving themselves permission to look for literary escape and are finding Wodehouse is just the tonic they’re after. Wodehouse has often been classified as escapism, as grounds for derision by his critics or apology by admirers. With the therapeutic benefits of reading now well understood, perhaps 2020 (a year with little else to recommend it) may signal a turning point in recognising the merits of escapist fiction and its contribution to our health and happiness. Merriam-Webster summed things up nicely when announcing pandemic as their word of the year, they revealed that top words searched for in 2020 included unprecedented, coronavirus, quarantine, schadenfreude, malarkey and Kraken.Īnother word seems to have been undergoing a much-needed rehabilitation this year- escapism. It’s been a stinker of a year, but you know this already. I’m going to skip the preliminary disparaging of 2020. ‘There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself,
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