14 Feb 2024

cimorene: A woman sitting on a bench reading a book in front of a symmetrical opulent white-and-gold hotel room (studying)
I actually bought the Emily Wilson Iliad recently and got unexpectedly absorbed by the introduction, which is over 100 pages. I also made pretty good progress on The Silmarillion this week, and got past the Children of Hurin and Thingol finally dying, but I'm finding the dwarf-racist slant of the narration tough to stomach.

Also I finished The Sundering Flood, the last of William Morris's 'medieval romances' that I hadn't read except The House of the Wolfings, which is a poem and doesn't have any real fantasy elements, and its sequel. The end was a bit limp in comparison to many of his other efforts, actually, but it was still a good time in general.

But then also a few minutes ago I saw Unnatural Death lying out of place on top of the bookshelf and couldn't resist, even though the last time I read it must've only been two years ago at most. This was the first Sayers book I read as a child and it's still my favorite, which seems to be quite unusual of me. I used to see discussion or raving about the Wimsey books on the regular on Tumblr, but I don't think I've ever seen a mention of this one, except for the quote about Wimsey and Bunter picking out the perfect suit to spuriously suggest that he is an anxious expectant father, which is the pretext he uses to interrogate a nurse. To jog the memories of people who have forgotten it in the background, the mysterious death of an old lady who had cancer but died for no understandable reason suddenly is the case, and it's introduced by a stranger who overhears Wimsey and his detective friend talking in a restaurant. I think my favorite parts are the parts about Miss Climpson, the middle-aged lady he hires to research and snoop for him.

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