At the very top of my blog page, in the left corner is a little search window. I can use that to try to see what I have already said in my 1,916 posts. Looks like I didn't write much about Dorothy Sayers. I knew she was an early woman mystery story writer with her Lord Wimsey series. I knew she was the author of The Mind of the Maker, an exploration of the comparison of an author and her characters to the mind of God and his charges.
I went to a presentation on Sayers and heard about her life and books. The group was to have read "Strong Poison" by Sayers before the meeting. I heard enough there that I was intrigued and began reading the book. It was fun reading and good writing so I stopped reading it on my own and began reading it aloud to Lynn. We are 60% through the book.
The language depicted of the 1930 British speakers is clearly different from I am used to but I feel I can understand it. I like it. Lord Wimsey uses "frightfully", as in "frightfully good of you, old thing", a bit too much for my taste but it makes for a nice change. Sayers' description of a party of people often talking past each other, drinking too much in an overheated room, seemed very much like parties today. I will be found reading further Sayers books in the future.
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Bill
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