
#february
Two of these were very very short, and one is an audiobook that I listened to in the car with my son on our weekly drive. My favorite is probably The White Mosque, but I enjoyed all of them!
#february
Two of these were very very short, and one is an audiobook that I listened to in the car with my son on our weekly drive. My favorite is probably The White Mosque, but I enjoyed all of them!
This was the #goldenageofcrime buddy read hosted by @Mitch for Feb. it was a solid mystery- but definitely problematic in terms of anti Semitic views and racial slurs. It was difficult to overlook, but as an adult reading it also kept thinking this is why Desantis in Florida is evil.
Didn't finish rereading this before yesterday's #goldenagecrimeclub discussion, but don't think I would've added much to it. It's ok, I guess, but later books are so much better. Glad it wasn't my actual intro to Whimsey & co.
A light pick for me. Not among the best of the Lord Peter Wimsey series, but it was interesting to reread this first book and see how Wimsey, Bunter and Parker were initially introduced to us.
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The discussion for the tagged book in the #goldenageofcrime is up and running. This is open to anyone interested - see @mitch to join discussion
And finally…… anything left unsaid in previous discussions that you‘d like to finish on?
#goldenagecrimeclub
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#BookReport - Another week of doing a good job reading a terrible job reviewing 😂 Finished the Chesapeake Shores series (finally!). Read Girls Made of Snow & Glass for #LMPBC (so-so; I found the characters annoying). Tagged book was fun but a little disjointed - I'm still going to read the next one in the series, though! Not the Witch You Wed was a #TrappedonanIsland pick and was just the fluffy, silly read I needed. Just started The Girls at ⬇
I‘ve not read any P G Wodehouse but it‘s been said he has some Bertie Wooster vibes. Sayers described Bunter as part Wooster part Fred Astaire! Are you on TEAM BUNTER??
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I struggled at first with Lord Peter Wimsey - his class and language just didn‘t sit well with me! What did you make of him and how he begun to develop?
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Sayers has written some truly awful antisemitic La gauge and stereotypes- what did you make of this? How do we read the past from the present ?
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Naked body in a bath tub wearing nothing but Pince - nez! How did you like the opening ? Sayers originally wrote the body in the tub as a woman‘s - how would this have changed the book do you think?
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Welcome everyone to our second #buddyread! And this one was hugely more problematic for me that the first ( more on that in later discussion prompts!) But let‘s kick off with your journey to finding Sayer, relationship with the books and their relevance 100 years on.
A light pick. I found I needed to take it in small doses. Lord Peter and Bunter had their moments, I was quite touched by the PTSD episode. While I was happy with the resolution of the mysteries, I can‘t say I liked the way Sayers chose to explain it all in so much detail. This is my first Sayers. My husband is a fan, hence the Folio edition. #GoldenAgeCrimeClub
“it was a cruel shame a girl couldn‘t ‘ave a bit of fun without a nasty corpse comin‘ in through the window to get ‘er into difficulties.” Poor Gladys 😂
My first Sayers and for the most part I enjoyed it. Very dialogue-heavy! The courtroom scene was my favorite—the serious Coroner opening windows, the testimony quoted above, the commentary from the Dowager Duchess—funny stuff. I also really liked Wimsey and Bunter as a dynamic duo.
I‘m with @batsy on this one. First of all it took about 40% to get into the book. Some attitudes made me squirm. There were a few moments I liked, especially the Jeeves and Wooster-esque relationship but they were few. Looking forward to further discussions with #goldenagecrimeclub @Mitch
It's a shame; I expected to like this a lot more. I've read some of the later Wimsey (+Harriet Vane) books & enjoyed it. This one does read like a first book, though. Structurally, it has the plot of a hasty thought experiment. There's the antisemitism, which sadly is prevalent in a lot of British fiction of the era, & the classism. I wasn't sure if Sayers was depicting it to partly skewer the nobility or not. The vibes were off, as the kids say.
I've read a bunch of Sayers but not this one, so am excited to hang out with this over the weekend for the #GoldenAgeCrimeClub @Mitch
While reading the tagged book, my husband yells “look in the back”! And I found this body. Elk! How glorious.
(Thanks for indulging me and my nature photos)
1) Louise Penny
2) tagged
3) Unknown Body in the Bathtub
Tagging anyone who wants to play!
I am acquiring new vocabulary as Lord Peter Wimsey ruminates out loud to others around him, even quoting poetry to an unsuspecting waiter who was only interested in his food order. As his thoughts zig zag & ramble, Wimsey gives the illusion that he is bumbling about,but when his razor sharp focus breaks through, one is confronted with his intuitive intelligence. #goldenagecrimeclub
Reminder: this is the February book for the #goldenagecrimeclub hosted by @mitch Anyone can join, and the discussion will be Feb 26.
Just 2 weeks to go until our second #goldenagecrimeclub chat about the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel - Whose Body? Everyone welcome to follow the tag and join in the chat on Sunday 26th February
I just loved this sentence. Lord Peter Whimsy is describing the as yet unknown murderer of the body discovered in the bathtub of another person‘s house. #goldenagecrimeclub
@mitch I wanted to join in on the fun too so I listened to the audio of February's #goldenagecrimeclub. Sayers was a new-to-me author and I quite enjoyed this though I found it a bit confusing and might have done better to read it. It also felt like a good 20% of the book was the murdered explaining how he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for that meddling Lord Wimsey and co lol. But still good 3.75⭐️
I‘m ready for this month‘s #GoldenAgeCrimeClub discussion! You can tell it‘s an early novel in the author‘s career, but it shows enough promise that I would read more from her. 👓 🛁
Lord Peter: It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own—gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.
(This is me doing housework—so much more satisfying to tidy up my parents‘ place than my own 😂)
This is the fourth Wimsey I‘ve read but the first in the series. A light diversion from my heavy non-fiction. Looking forward to the #GoldenAgeCrimeClub discussion!
I stayed at the Cathedral Hotel, Salisbury, in 2015 and thus breakfasted where Lord Peter lunched. His lunch is commemorated by a blue plaque, which is shown in the photo 😄
The Coroner […] directed all the windows to be opened, thus letting in a stream of drizzling fog upon the heads of the unfortunates on that side of the room. This caused a commotion and some expressions of disapproval, checked sternly by the Coroner, who said that with the influenza about again an unventilated room was a death-trap; that anybody who chose to object to open windows had the obvious remedy of leaving the court.
(100 years later…)
Repost for @Mitch
Tagged book is the choice for the February #goldenageofcrimeclub hosted by @mitch Open to anyone interested.
Just a reminder our ##goldenagecrimeclub February read is the first book in the Peter Wimsey series. See you all on Feb 26!
Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers was written by one of the major voices of the Golden Age of Murder Mystery. Read my book review at John C Adams Reviews.
https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/whose-body-by-dorothy-l-sayers
#dorothylsayers #murdermystery
“Whose body? And why the carbolic soap?“ Questions no self-respecting detective should ever have to ask themselves. As the novel opens, a body has been found naked (besides a pince nez) in the bath. Thankfully, Wimsey isn‘t daunted by the unusual circumstances. His socially-well-connected mother is on hand to help, too, of course.
Read my review at John C Adams Reviews:
https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/whose-body-by-dorothy-l-sayers
For some reason I thought this was one of the Harriet Vane books. It is in fact the first Wimsey novel, and (despite the lack of Harriet), it‘s a brilliant mystery. We also get Bunter at his most devious, which I enjoyed immensely. Sayers‘s characters are always superb - and it‘s interesting to note the development from the duchess‘s significant role here to the whole sections written from Miss Climpson‘s or Harriet‘s point of view in later works.
I was away, so here's a quick #OnThisDay catch up!
June 9, 1949 Deyda Hydara was born. Hydara was co-founder and editor of The Point (Gambian independent newspaper) and correspondent for Reporters Without Borders.
June 10, 1881 Leo Tolstoy set out on a Pilgrimage to the Optina Pustyn monastery.
June 11, 1572 poet and playwright Ben Jonson was born.
June 12, 1942 Anne Frank received a diary for her birthday.
June 13, 1893 Dorothy Sayers born.
Finished this last night. Saw it in the library & picked it up for nostalgia‘s sake. It was a fun reread, thrusting me back into the aristocratic class in 1920‘s England. Lord Peter Whimsey spoke of his investigations as a “distraction“ from his life of dinners, luncheons., his club, & his rare books. But I have no inclination to visit his world again by rereading more in the series.#20in4 #readathon #marvelousmay
Total pages:213
Went for something comforting tonight. I went through all of Dorothy Sayers novels so long ago that I can reread without a clue! So I am enjoying myself. The tagged book is Set in England after WWI in 1923.
I forgot the author used the format of footnotes to explain the rare province (or not) of the books Wimsey was buying. #DorothySayers #MistressoftheGoldenAgeMystery #libraryfind #LordPeterWimseyMystery #porchlife #20in4 #readathon
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1. Mystery is probably my most read genre & I‘ll always love Poirot but Dorothy Sayers is the master
2. Don‘t Believe a Word, a book I received last Christmas 🤦♀️I‘ve tried to start multiple times & even tried the audiobook! I think I have too much to say about it & no one to say it to 🤔
3. My beautiful family & partner, every day. 🥰
I swear I‘ve read this one before, but I didn‘t remember much about it! A classic Golden Age mystery, which I‘m apparently on a bit of a kick for lately! Work is almost done for the year (seven more days!!) so maybe I‘ll get to pick up some more soon.
This is the first Peter Wimsey mistery and it's a fun one. The murder was quite creative and Peter is a delightful protagonist. Oh, and I love the Dowager Duchess 😍
It's also the first book I finished for #wintergames2021 and my December #bookspin
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"Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!"
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2. @Lynnsoprano
3. @j9brown
4. @TheAromaofBooks Bookspin really helped me to get through my TBR this year
5. @Crazeedi @Laughterhp
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Fun game! #wintergames2021 #teamgamesleighers
Signed up for this event for the first time! Super excited to see my match‘s picks. Also, I know I put Capital by Marx as my first book on the list; I don‘t actually expect my match to read it 😆 but it was one of my two five star books this year (other is tagged).
See @monalyisha to sign up
Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers was written by one of the major voices of the Golden Age of Murder Mystery. Read my review here.
https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/whose-body-by-dorothy-l-sayers
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I‘ve been hearing wonderful things about Dorothy Sayers‘ Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries for years, and I finally picked up this first one. It was an intriguing setup, and although I sensed where the clues were going, the details of the mystery still kept me curious. I loved the intro to Lord Peter and his faithful valet Bunter (and his mother, the Duchess of Denver!). Looking forward to more in this series.
A dead man is found is a bath tube in a stranger‘s home. At the same time, a rich man goes missing. Are these two cases connected? Or are they two separate ones? Follow Detective Parker and Lord Peter Wimsey as they investigate the two cases.
I enjoyed this and reading the beginning of the crime genre.
I really like murder mysteries and silly British characters, but this missed the mark for me. I think because (a) it‘s from a different time and some of the language around Jewish people had me like “yikes” and (b) the mystery wasn‘t mysterious enough. Too easy to see the connections. So it wasn‘t a good enough book for me to work past some of my discomfort for the sake of enjoying what the book was when it was written. If that makes sense. :)
Been watching the Ian Carmichael BBC adaptation all weekend and now I have the fiercest craving to reread some Sayers... but would I start here at the beginning, or wherever I got up to in my last reread? Hmmm.