2. Debts of Dishonour by Jill Paton Walsh (Mystery)
Imogen Quy, nurse at St. Agatha’s College, Cambridge, becomes involved in the death of a financier.
This book bored me to death. I had to force myself to sit down and finish it, which I can’t remember ever having to do with a mystery novel before. I didn’t much care about the mystery or its solution. Imogen Quy didn’t interest me in the slightest; nor did any of the other characters.
I’m surprised at how little I enjoyed Debts of Dishonour, because I like Thrones, Dominations and A Presumption of Death, the two Dorothy L. Sayers’s novels she’s “completed” (although I don’t think they measure up to Sayers’s own writing.)
Books read: 2/50
Pages read: 491/15,000
Next on the list:
- Obasan by Joy Kogawa (Fiction)
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Fiction)
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Fiction)
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Memoir)
- Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (Fiction)
- The Wars by Timothy Findley (Fiction)
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Tags: 50 Book Challenge 2007
