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Lord Peter Wimsey – Lioness at Large

Portfolio Tag: Lord Peter Wimsey

Summer Games 2021

So, I’ve finally come up with a summer reading theme: Seeing as both the Olympic Games and the European Football (Soccer) Championship have been pushed back to this year from 2020 due to the pandemic (and 3 of the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments are also set while it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere), I […]

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2020 Summer Sojourn

As current events make actual travel — at least, leisure travel — either undesirable, unwise or flat-out impossible, I decided to devote my 2020 summer reading to literary armchair travel, and to call it the 2020 Summer Sojourn. Then the BookLikes meltdown happened and I had to start sprucing up my WordPress blog … as […]

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The Detection Club

With my Detection Club Bingo card now blacked out, I’m going to track my reading here.  (Note: for purposes of completeness, this includes books by the below authors already read prior to the creation of this list.)  My priorities are going to be: Arthur Conan Doyle’s / Sherlock Holmes’s adventures, biographies, contemporaries and rivals, as […]

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On Page and Screen

Bringing together great literature and its equally great screen adaptations. Note: Authors are included here if I own a screen adaptation of at least one of their works and have either reviewed / blogged about that screen adaptation or about any one of the author’s literary works.  At the same time, however, for each of […]

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As My Wimsey Takes Me

Dorothy L. Sayers Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links (Auto-) Biographical Works The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist 1937–1943, From Novelist to Playwright 1944–1950, A Noble Daring 1951–1957, In the Midst of Life Child and Woman of Her Time   Barbara Reynolds: Dorothy L. Sayers – Her […]

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