tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post3193417320912805187..comments2013-02-11T20:01:58.555-08:00Comments on comments on life: Book Review: Strong PoisonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-42610713106821581822011-11-25T09:18:20.822-08:002011-11-25T09:18:20.822-08:00Yeah, I caught that review/commentary. I am trying...Yeah, I caught that review/commentary. I am trying to decide how to take it. Yes, I agree that Allingham's work has lots of sexism in it but I did get the feeling that Echidne was reading quickly, superficially and out of series and cultural context.<br /><br />I mean, after all, Allingham was a highly respected and financially successful woman working in a field that was peopled in large part by other highly respected and financially successful women and often her books (and theirs) they enjoy ragging on popular memes. Sort of like Austen playing with the Gothic sensibility in <em>Northanger Abbey</em>.mmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16987853519962545747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-73968499976551302382011-11-25T08:23:22.077-08:002011-11-25T08:23:22.077-08:00Oh, on Allingham: have you read Echidne of the Sna...Oh, on Allingham: have you read <a href="http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2011_11_20_archive.html#5036866533877995808" rel="nofollow">Echidne of the Snakes</a> today? She's done a brief, uncomplimentary review of <i>The Fashion in Shrouds</i>-- I'd forgotten about that one! It's just as sexist as she says, but I think it's also notable that Campion himself ends up with a very different sort of woman and a very different sort of marriage.Amaryllisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-39587877660329166932011-11-19T06:51:00.484-08:002011-11-19T06:51:00.484-08:00Eh, it was okay; I don't think you need to go ...Eh, it was okay; I don't think you need to go out of your way for it, having read so much from that era already.<br /><br />No, I know, if you want to lengthen your reading list with snippet-views from someplace else entirely, how about Helen Chappell's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Oysterback-Tales-Helen-Chappell/dp/0801880602" rel="nofollow">Oysterback Tales</a>. Those were fun.<br /><br />I hope this links to where I think it does: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-25J7ZtaAycC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=oysterback+chappell+silver+cord+is+loose&source=bl&ots=bDsRIuAP3N&sig=03kd6SgQ3mpIXjOzRvxs-kgt7S4&hl=en&ei=4cDHTsO8LYjt0gHlsLmtBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">local news from the <em>Oysterback Bugeye</em></a>, via Google Books.<br /><br />Allingham I have to be in the mood for-- and I haven't quite figured out what the mood is-- sometimes I like them and sometimes I don't. I guess I have to be in the mood for language and atmosphere rather than plot or plausibility, maybe.Amaryllisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-20946656590308678632011-11-18T17:57:07.596-08:002011-11-18T17:57:07.596-08:00I think I learned the Mithradates, he died old fro...I think I learned the <i>Mithradates, he died old</i> from a different murder mystery, but I had encountered into before <i>Strong Poison</i>. So I noticed some of the clues that Sayers left along the way. But she really does play fair doesn't she?<br /><br />Is <i>Mrs. Miniver</i> any good? My reading list is getting dreadfully long.....<br /><br />BTW, what do you think of Allingham. So people adore her Campion books but at the moment I am just not seeing it.mmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16987853519962545747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304705769796697820.post-10030334078997878762011-11-18T17:28:51.950-08:002011-11-18T17:28:51.950-08:00Mithradates, he died old...
Until I read Strong P...<em>Mithradates, he died old...</em><br /><br />Until I read <em>Strong Poison</em>, I never knew that such a thing was literally possible.<br /><br />And I wish there'd been more of Miss Climpson and Co., too.<br /><br />In other news, although I still haven't got around to <em>Diary of a Provincial Lady</em>, I just read (well, skimmed through) Jan Struther's <em>Mrs Miniver</em> (which I gather has very little to do with the movie of the same name). Talk about the last gasp of "Old England." Mrs Miniver in 1937, with a house in London and a country house in Kent, and nannies and cooks and maids in both of them, considers herself merely middle-class. On the other hand, she's pretty well aware of how privileged she is. And I can't help feeling some sympathy for someone who feels that no moment is complete until she's remembered the appropriate poem to go with it!Amaryllisnoreply@blogger.com