I've just used up a second gift link from the New York Times because my first post got blown away. Apparently it was too short or maybe didn't contain some key words. This auto-moderator doesn't think you can start an "in-depth conversation" with a short sentence. (So much for the opening question at St. John's.)
This gifted NYT article is about the 100th anniversary of the publication of Whose Body. However, the biographical details in the article make me want to read Strong Poison for the 4th or 5th time.
The rest is Filler (how much do I need here?)
Wow, I really loved Sayer's books and have read all of Sayers' Peter Wimsey novels four or five times. To say something obvious about how I reacted to the NYT article, which readers may enjoy for free anyway, well, it appears that Strong Poison contains a lot of thought and feeling about what it was like to be a young, well-educated woman during the 20s and 30s who was sexually active, refused to live with someone, and then accidentally got pregnant by someone else and found a relative to raise the baby, who didn't find out he was Sayers' son until 1957. (Should I mark this as a spoiler?)
Sentences with key words. Strong Poison is written from the standpoint of the author's lived experience (!) How about you: Do others here read well-written mystery novels several time? Can we love Peter Wimsey without calling him an imperialist elite white guy? Does Bunter's relationships with Wimsey mean Wimsey is open-minded, or does he exploit cultural and financial power in the friendship? And what about Parker. (Note – I'm not really interested in these questions but am just trying to get the post published.)
by GardenPeep