"The Private Patient" by P. D. James

[lizbee]

A few people asked about this: the new P. D. James is already out in England, and will have a November release in Australia and the US.  I got a reading copy from work, which I finished last night.  It was quite magnificent.  In some ways, I think James is wearing her Sayers-loving heart on her sleeve more than ever, but this isn't a bad thing.  Even if that was a terrible sentence.  Like Harriet, Emma's best friends are stout, practical lesbians.  I lolled.

Some random links, because I need to clear out my bookmarks:

Stitch: a free program for making cross stitch designs.  I haven't tried it out yet, but it's received good reviews.

cesario made this for me when I was feeling emo about the elitist thing.  I really don't know what she's trying to say...

It's Lovely!  I'll Take It!  I'm addicted to this blog, which features highly inappropriate photos from real estate listings.  piecesofalice and suburbannoir hate it, because I laugh really loudly whenever I browse it.

FlickFilosopher takes a closer look at Derek Jacobi's Hamlet.

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

The recent pitch-perfect adaptation of Ballet Shoes, a book I have loved since I was six, put lots of subtext into the two Oxford graduates who had retired together and I said Ohhhhhh.... Of course.... (it didn't hurt that one of them was Harriet Walter!)

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I just re-read the book, and I'm still not totally clear on whether or not they had separate rooms, or just a shared suite.