Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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An Easter Post: Women in Prison, Agatha Christie’s Sad Cypress, and Dorothy L. Sayers’s Strong Poison
I was halfway through Sad Cypress before I realized that the young doctor who had sought Hercule Poirot’s assistance was named Peter Lord. Lord Peter. A nice tribute to Dorothy L. Sayers in a book that follows the broad outlines of her earlier novel, Strong Poison. Sad Cypress was published a decade after Sayers’s book,…
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Joy, Oh Joy
Between braising brisket and planning decorative Easter bushes under which the baskets of chocolate eggs can sit, I’ve been thinking about joy. This is prompted, in part, by re-reading Louise Penny’s April-themed The Cruellest Month and The Long Way Home while watching David Mitchell and the wonderful Anna Maxwell Martin in Season 1 of Ludwig.…
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Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!
Photo credit: Paige K Parsons for Rabbit.org Foundation Welcome to April! Easter is coming, and the etched coloured glass eggs I ordered as my treat arrived yesterday; now I’m trying to figure out how to construct an indoor Easter bush that does not entice the cat into potential disaster. First, though, we have to get…
