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Reading for the 2nd time
read in October 2017
Jan C said:
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This is the book where Sayers introduces us to mystery author Harriet Vane. She is about to be convicted of murdering a former lover (possibly scandalous in itself) when Lord Peter Wimsey declares his love for her. The Dowager Duchess likes her, too.
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This particular incident, a novelist overhearing herself described as a drinker, made its way into Agatha’s novel Dead Man’s Folly when it happens to her fictional alter ego, the detective novelist Mrs Ariadne Oliver.
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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