All your Harriet Vane are belong to me.
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DXMachina - Jun 25, 2004 5:53:49 am PDT #3594 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2004 5:59:51 am PDT #3595 of 10002
brillig
You can have her, DX. My main response to her is "Get over it already, woman".
DXMachina - Jun 25, 2004 6:07:24 am PDT #3596 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Well, yes, there are times I want to shake some sense into her, but long term she seems worth it.
Calli - Jun 25, 2004 6:21:00 am PDT #3597 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
If Harriet Vane had been me, Busman's Honeymoon would have taken place before Have His Carcase. And the latter would have been rather different. (Although I do love significant chunks of HHC, so it's probably just as well that Vane != me.)
Susan W. - Jun 25, 2004 7:11:36 am PDT #3598 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Here I am with big stacks of books from both the libraries I patronize, and what am I doing? Re-reading the abovementioned books from my very own bookshelf. This morning I moved on to Gaudy Night, after lamenting that Have His Carcase has gone AWOL.
And I love the Dowager Duchess. And Bunter. And Chief Inspector Parker and Lady Mary. And Harriet, for that matter--in an "I know she's a Mary Sue, but dammit, I can identify with her, too" sort of way.
Lilty Cash - Jun 25, 2004 7:14:12 am PDT #3599 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I just started "I Love Everybody and Other Atrocious Lies: The True Stories of a Loud-mouthed Girl" on recommendation from my cousin. Looks like prime beach material.
deborah grabien - Jun 25, 2004 7:14:17 am PDT #3600 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I loved the most recent BBC series doing Sayers' stuff.
But I remain resolute in my Ngaio Marsh love. And Troy Alleyn was never a Mary Sue in her life.
Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2004 7:15:16 am PDT #3601 of 10002
brillig
Have you guys read "Lord Peter", the short story collection? It has the two stories Sayers wrote of Peter and Harriet married, one where their first kid is born and one several years later.
msbelle - Jun 25, 2004 7:24:56 am PDT #3602 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
our bookclub just selected The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch. Anyone read it and have thoughts?
deborah grabien - Jun 25, 2004 7:26:32 am PDT #3603 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I was a little cranky with Sayers over the Lord Peter collection. Three sons, no daughters.
I wanted to see Peter with girls. Also, lordy lordy lordy, that collection really showed Sayres' Toryism. There was that line about how Bredon, the eldest, was going to get everything, and the person she was talking to was outraged, saying, but that's very bad for the other two boys. And Harriet smiled and said yes, but it's very good for the property.
Oy.
Muder Must Advertise is my favourite of hers, by a lot. Gaudy Night is behind it, mostly because I know Oxford, and because I loved loved loved some of the language in that book. Harriet's realest moment to me was when Peter offered to show her how to avoid being strangled, and she said to him, you're going to make me feel clumsy and stupid, and I. don't. LIKE. it.
Never liked her better than right there.