Member: IlsaLund

I'm very pleased you appreciate my books. Feel free to browse!

j.

posted by josiasporter at 3:40 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2009

Personally, I am not one who feels that the Harriet Vane books are the best in the series. I don't know if that is because I'm male -- some women seem to prefer the Vane ones. The only one of the Vane group I really like is Have His Carcase. You can easily find this information elsewhere, but just to save you disappointment, I may say the Vane-related books are Strong Poison
(in which Peter proves Vane innocent of poisoning her lover), Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon, plus at least one short story
set after their marriage which can be found in the collection Lord Peter.
The unfinished novel Thrones, Dominations also includes Vane. It was relatively recently completed by another author, and I didn't care for it much. There were also some Whimsey letters Sayers did during World War II, referring to Peter in the British secret service abroad and Vane at home.
I am writing from memory and may be omitting something, but that is what I recall offhand.
I apprciate your recommendation of the Jenkins life of Churchill; I believe I have not read it, though I know of Jenkins as a British politician.

posted by antiquary at 1:29 pm (EST) on Jul 10, 2009

I gather we share interests in Sayers, F. D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. I read and reread Sayers repeatedly when younger, especially the short stories. Of her novels, my favorite is probably Murder Must Advertise.
On Churchill, I may say I recently read The River War, and found it surprisingly objective -- I had expected it to be more a personal memoir of his own part in the expedition, but it turned out to be a straightforward
history of the whole Mahdist period --and strikingly sympathetic to the Mahdi.
But as you have a book on his early life, you probably knew that already.

posted by antiquary at 5:19 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2009

Hi. Thanks for adding me to interesting libraries. See anything in particular that caught your interest?

j.

posted by josiasporter at 6:56 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2009

Thanks for adding me to the interesting ibraries. I hope your library will continue to grow.

David

posted by orientalist at 12:21 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2009