Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!) Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2023

“Perhaps we ought to try the truth. Not that I claim any inherent value for it, God forbid; but it has, among our various techniques, the appeal of novelty.“

Damn! This woman could write a quotable quote.

“What I need is a solution. Keep quiet a minute, and let me think. While it‘s not a process of which I expect spectacular results, it‘s the only form of activity that occurs to me at the moment.”

Why, oh why am I only discovering Amanda Cross now?! Any of you out there who are academics or lovers of Peter Wimsey and are looking for a new read—if you haven't read Amanda Cross, I highly recommend her.

This is the opening novel with Kate Fansler as the intellectual academic reluctant detective. We find all the ingredients in the first book that made the series interesting and different: intellectual puzzles, the mystery set in a somewhat ivory tower space, here, a psychoanalyst's office and home. You get literary discussions and mentions (Lord Peter *smile*), psychoanalytic debates about Freud, and NYC. #NYCfiction