Both times I read Dorothy L. Sayers' The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, there was a scene in chapter 17 that strongly reminded me of one in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. This time, I found both passages so I could compare them. In chapter 17 of Sayers' book, Parker is looking at … Continue reading My Brontë Theory: Paintings Turned to the Walls →

It's a good thing I am writing mostly for myself, as I never worked up the gumption to finish posting about The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. June rather got away from me. Story of my life. Spoilers ahead about the end of the book and who did it. The main block to my writing, … Continue reading The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers, ch 17-end →

How do you mark up your books? Flags? Underlining? Turning down pages? Margin scribbles? I’ve gone back and forth and round and round over the years. My current markers of choice are Book Darts, slim metal pointers that slip over the edge of a page without damage. I like to look at the edges of … Continue reading The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers ch. VIII-XVI →

First English edition by Benn, the second Sayers book they published. For the first three Peter Wimsey books (Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death), I wrote weekly updates. This didn’t match well with how I read the books, which I prefer to do in one gulp. For book four, The Unpleasantness at the … Continue reading The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers Ch I-VII →

I finished four books last month: Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers. The third of the Peter Wimsey novels. I'm reading one each month with a group. The first two are slow going, we agreed, but this one everyone flew through. Was it a candidate as a good entry point to the series? No, given … Continue reading Little Bit Late: April Books →

Here are a few of the many covers for Unnatural Death. I like them better than the ones on my mass-market paperback copies, both of which show a woman surrounded by blood in a bed, which isn't in the book! Again, on this third book in the Peter Wimsey series, I found the last act … Continue reading “Unnatural Death” by Dorothy L. Sayers Part III →