Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers My rating: 3 of 5 stars Library. I have been enjoying Lord Peter Wimsey books this year. This one was my least favorite so far. Not to say that I didn’t enjoy it, just that I’ve preferred the others. I was disappointed that the murder was incidental to…
The Tanglewoods’ Secret by Patricia St. John My rating: 3 of 5 stars Audiobook from my sister. Hm. We really liked the story of this. The events in the plot moved the story along, the characters were real – foibles and all. The theology was more than a little shaky – pictures of Jesus; we…
FOR TODAY Outside my window…it’s dark and night. I am thinking… about going to sleep. It’s getting late. I am thankful… for quiet evenings at home. In the kitchen…M-girl is planning to learn to make crockpot lasagna tomorrow. I am wearing…jeans, blue shirt, blue hooded sweater. I am creating…ideas in my head for Christmas ornaments….
Still reading Murder Must Advertise. This time Sayers takes on advertisers, a commercial culture, and shoppers. The very work that engaged [Lord Peter] –or rather, the shadowy simulacrum of himself that signed itself on every morning in the name of Death Bredon– wafted him into a sphere of dim platonic archetypes, bearing a scarcely recognizable…
I know it’s been a while since I posted a weekly report. One week we were preparing for vacation. The next week we were on vacation. The following week we did a little school as we recovered from vacation and prepared for M-girl’s ninth birthday. Last week we had full school, and it was painful…
I’m reading Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers. I loved this assessment of police novels: “It beats me,” said Wimsey, “the way these policemen give way over a trifling accident. In the Sexton Blake book that my friend Ginger Joe has just lent me, the great detective, after being stunned with a piece of lead-piping…
More from Carolyn Weber’s new book, Holy is the Day. I loved this book. One of my favorite sentences. Ever.: “All of a sudden, without warning, an enormous pewter arch breaks the cerulean surface of the sea.” pg 107 ——————————————— No one had warned me just how truly power-full you became when filled with the…