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.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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."
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."
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.
Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2004 7:28:40 am PDT #3604 of 10002
brillig
Nods on "Murder Must Advertise." "Nine Taylors" comes after it for me, because "Gaudy Night" annoys me so much. Oxford is lovely, but the women are so obviously '30s artifacts now. Anymore I just skip to the parts with Viscount Gerald, because he's funny.
Jesse - Jun 25, 2004 7:30:44 am PDT #3605 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
our bookclub just selected The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch. Anyone read it and have thoughts?
You know, I'm pretty sure I own it, think I have read it, and yet remember nothing. But that's nothing against the book -- I'm terrible with that.
msbelle - Jun 25, 2004 7:34:53 am PDT #3606 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh, can you see if you have it? so I can borrow? asuming you're ok to lend it. t /presumptious.
Jesse - Jun 25, 2004 7:35:56 am PDT #3607 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Of course.
Susan W. - Jun 25, 2004 7:55:37 am PDT #3608 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Gaudy Night, and GN alone, is one of the recommended book club books through the Seattle Public Library's Center for the Book, which keeps a stock of various Important Works to loan out to area book clubs. One of my coworkers in the brief time I worked at SPL mentioned that they were going to read it next. I asked her if she'd read any of the previous Lord Peter books, and she said no. While I don't think it's necessary to have read everything that's gone before to appreciate it, I can't imagine the book is enhanced by having to plunge straight in without any history of who Peter and Harriet are and why should we care.