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I‘m giving up on the audiobook. The narrator is very high-pitched and her accent is such that I often cannot understand her. So I slow her down and heavens that‘s just dreadful. So I‘m switching to the ebook. But Lord Wimsey is getting on my nerves with his long-winded irrelevant speeches and odd ways of speaking. “What?” I also detect a strongwhiff of anti-semitism. I‘ll make it to the end; it‘s short but not making a good start of it. ⬇️

I‘m listening to this audiobook for #authoramonth. @Soubhiville

I‘m ringing in the New Year with the January #AuthorAMonth hosted by @Soubhiville. I‘m listening and reading the kindle edition. I‘m loving the narrator on the audio, but some of the attitudes of the 1920s (when the book was first published) are a little jarring. Still, I think I‘m going to enjoy this.

@Soubhiville #authoramonth

My guess is most people have already read this one since it‘s the first Peter Wimsey, but I thought I‘d share since it‘s such a great price. I also had the option of adding audible narration for $1.99.

This dreary September is the perfect time for getting back into cosy crime I think 🥰

#ItTakesAllKinds Day 16 I think I misunderstood the prompt. It was with the ? In the title but I posted a book with the word “with” in the title🤷🏽‍♀️ #TitleWith?or anyway, I read this book already December 2023

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#LunchAndABook I have four hours to kill between my morning shift and an afternoon meeting (seriously, who schedules meetings on a holiday weekend!?!?!). Spending my time with a burger and a murder. 🔪 🍔 📕

Very good.

#12Booksof2023 day 2: for 2023 I had intended to go through more classics and "classics" than I did, but I at least started diving into some classic mysteries thanks to @Mitch and the #goldenageofcrimeclub and I've really enjoyed the experience. I found this one to be particularly clever and funny, maybe esp for a debut, and look forward to reading the rest of the series.

I started late in this series, and it's interesting to go back to the beginning. I really like how Sayers tells stories. They take some patience and focus, but the payoff in complex characters and multi-layered plots is worth it. And so far, there's always some interesting social commentary. I'm too United Statesian to understand the significance of dropped H's, though. I get how it sounds, just not what it means culturally.

It took me a long time to reread this - because of life - but I finally managed to complete this, several months past the #GoldenAgrCrimeClub discussion of it! I like Peter Wimsey‘s humor and his deduction practices. He kind of reminds me of Christie‘s Tommy and Tuppence for his spunk and go-get-them attitude, but I admittedly like him more than Tommy and Tuppence. It‘s my goal to continue reading the series! #192025 #1923

August review A super late reading for ##GoldenAgeCrimeClub(February)
This was an interesting reading but since I read the book so late I didn‘t participate in the book discussion. However, reading the comments now, helped me to understand better the story and the characters since you find many racial/stereotypes comments that today could be very offensive. But as one of you mentioned it‘s difficult to evaluate it with our current values/beliefs

Have enjoyed this. Put it on my tbr when it was read in the #goldenageofcrimeclub and this month it was my #bookspin. I haven‘t read an old school crime story for a while so this was a nice choice.

#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.

#BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks
#goldenagecrimeclub @Mitch
#20in4 @Andrew65

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??
#goldenagecrimeclub

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?

#goldenagecrimeclub

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 ?

#goldenagecrimeclub

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?

#goldenagecrimeclub

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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

#ValentinesDayReadathon #2023

Finished Who‘s Body? #goldenagecrimeclub

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⭐️

An afternoon with Lord Peter Whimsy. #dorothysayers #goldenagecrimeclub

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!

I do love just how odd the body's discovery is. A really inventive plot.

#crime #murdermystery

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.