book seventy: Gaudy Night

Sunday 12 March 2017

In a change of pace, we are going to back to the Golden Age of mystery novels with Gaudy Night, a 1935 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers,  the tenth in her series about sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.

We met at Jim and Mari's place. Jim brought the shortlist.

Ratings (out of 17):

Johanna - 9 Will keep reading it.
James - No score
Mari - 9 as well. Slow and a bit boring but I do think about the world she created.
Leigha - Will score once through more - you've all told me that it picks up!
Monika- 12 Found it slow going to start with. I did enjoy some of the discussions between the characters. Like how the world was described. How passionate the female scholars were and the description of the old English culture. Words were almost too eloquent and could have been more concise. Could have edited it though!
Wendy - 14 Enjoyed the world. Great discussions around role of women. Snapshot in time but the same conversations are still happening!