{"id":68,"date":"2005-04-29T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=68"},"modified":"2005-04-29T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T17:11:00","slug":"busmans-honeymoon-by-dorothy-l-sayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2005\/04\/busmans-honeymoon-by-dorothy-l-sayers.html","title":{"rendered":"Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personally I found Busman’s Honeymoon<\/a> to be pretty tedious although it appears from the reviews on Amazon.com that regular readers of the series like it. One review does mention that it’s not a good place to start the series, being the last book I gather. I did once read another Whimsey story and don’t remember much about it except I don’t think I disliked it as much as this one.<\/p>\n

Busman’s Holiday is a good deal about the relationship between Whimsey and his new wife. As such, they quote a lot of poetry at each other. They quote poetry to other people too and speak in French a lot. Then there are the English colloquialisms and the outdated vocabulary, so all in all I probably only understood about half the book. It’s hard to believe there’s anyone still living today who would recognize all those quotes (and that such a person is reading mystery novels).<\/p>\n

Luckily you only need to understand perhaps a quarter or an eighth of the book to get the mystery which is hardly mentioned for chapters at a time. It turns out the bad guy did it. Big surprise. How he did it is contrived and why he did it is unexplored. Well, he’s a bad guy.<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say that I don’t think I’ll be trying any more of the Whimsey books. As a reasonably well educated person, I don’t need to be made to feel that stupid. And as an avid mystery reader, I prefer a bit more mystery in my mysteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personally I found Busman’s Honeymoon to be pretty tedious although it appears from the reviews on Amazon.com that regular readers of the series like it. One review does mention that it’s not a good place to start the series, being the last book I gather. I did once read another Whimsey story and don’t remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mysteryhorrorsuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}