Dorothy Sayers

Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice.

Clouds of Witness by Dorothy Sayers

February 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmm. Oh what’s wrong? Well, I will tell you. When I was in grad school I was taking a class called “The Inklings: Anti-Modernism” and I really liked it. One of the books we read was Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Night and it was fantastic. And I’ve been chasing that dragon ever since. I keep giving her earlier books a try, and I keep finding them lacking. So the case with this one is a problem across a few fields: one, I don’t […]

The Knowledge of Good and Evil is Removable

August 3, 2017 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading this while walking my dog. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t grab me until 67% of the way in. I think I’ve read at least a dozen graphic novels while plodding my way through this. I reached the point where I couldn’t put it down when it shifted from a mystery with no obvious solution to a cat and mouse game between Lord Peter and the murderer. This was the passage that finally grabbed me. There is a game in which one […]

“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”

November 23, 2016 by AkBeagle 1 Comment

This book took forever (forever!) to read. I have recently returned to the library after a long absence and of course I checked out a book that I needed to renew. Twice. Ok. On to the book. Gaudy Night is the 10th Lord Peter Whimsy book by Dorothy L. Sayers. I say this to point out that there is a backstory between the two main characters that is referenced to, but you don’t need to read them in order. The first book I read in […]

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