Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I tend to read more British mystery than anything else, so this list is weighted heavily in that direction. I’ve also tried to… Read more »
Tag: Lord Peter Wimsey
News & Notes – 3/07/15
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Harper Lee tells persistent journalist to “Go away!” (Huffington Post) Children’s and YA Authors protest against the gendering of books. GalleyCat has a fairly… Read more »
My Top Ten Book Heroines
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. Wait, you want me to keep this down to a mere ten? You’ve got to be kidding me! OK, here are some of… Read more »
REVIEW: The Late Scholar, by Jill Paton Walsh
The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh Series: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane #4 Published by Minotaur Books on 6/17/14 Genres: British mystery, Historical Mystery, Mystery Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey – now a Duke – and his wife… Read more »
W.O.W. 5/28/14: Tea and mystery
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, where we spotlight the forthcoming books we’re excited about. I’m looking forward to quite a few books this month! First to be published are two mysteries: Tempest In a Teapot by Amanda Cooper (a.k.a. Virginia Hamilton)… Read more »
Top Ten Best & Worst Series Enders
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best/Worst Series Enders. One challenge of this week’s topic is that a lot of the series I read don’t exactly end, especially the mysteries. They may stop, either because… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday – Best Sequels Ever
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Best Sequels Ever. I read a lot of series, which gives me a huge pool to draw from. So to narrow things down a bit, I used these criteria:… Read more »
Striding Folly, by Dorothy L. Sayers (audiobook review)
Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers Narrator: Ian Carmichael Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Published by BBC Audio on 2002 (this audio recording; story collection first published 1972) Genres: Mystery Format: Audiobook Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible | Chirp Also in this series: Whose Body? Also… August 30, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm short stories, Striding Folly 6 ★★★★
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books I Read Before I Was a Blogger
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Favorite Books I Read Before I Was A Blogger. Only ten? Aaack! How the heck do I choose? There are so many books I love, so many I’ve read over… Read more »
Whose Body? (a Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery), by Dorothy Sayers (review)
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers Series: Lord Peter Wimsey #1 Published by Open Road Media on First publication: 1923. This edition: April 9, 2013 Genres: Mystery, British mystery Pages: 208 Format: Kindle or ebook Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads In the debut mystery in Dorothy L…. Read more »