Reading Vlog - Strong Poison By Dorothy L Sayers

hello there and welcome to a reading vlog it's been quite a while since i've done a reading vlog and i thought i'd just do a new one you'll have to put up with my face today which has zero makeup on it because my x-men is a bit sore i think because the weather's been so cold again recently um it's just made my eczema kind of ouchy um a bit more ouchy than usual um so yeah anyway um reading vlog of strong poison so i sorry if you can hear banging there's some people doing some building stuff across the road um so according to goodreads i read strong poison for the first time in january 2020 2020 what a year i would like my money back please um and i really loved it it was it was the book that got me into say is really like herc line and thinker before that i had read whose body and gordy knight and gordy knight was well whose body put me off sayers then i left it for years gordy knight was the one that got me back into sayers and thinking yes i think i can do this and strong poison was the start where i got addicted and now i need to spread the joy spread the joy so um myself and julie over the channel hungrybookworm channel link down below we run a group together called hashtag christyfest where each month we read an agatha christie book for a week and then at the end of the week we come together via discord group and we chat about it now as well as doing that we also do a book of the month where essentially we just read a classic crime book that isn't an agatha christie and again you have the hop and you have the whole month to read it and then um i think for this one we are going to chat about we don't usually chat about it it's not set in stone you don't have to read the book a month me and julie certainly don't read every book of the month it's just there as an idea because i think it's very easy to get stuck in a rut with christy and just reach christie christie christie which is hence why i've read all of agatha christie's books because i just read about like three or four of them at a time so yeah we've been under done the morning walk today it was a good hour and a half to try and tire him out if you hear that that's puppy um essentially i ended up tiring myself out great job leo well done and um it was so weird this morning because on the morning walk we're walking past these houses and all i could smell was like a roast dinner at like 8 30 in the morning i was like why can i smell roast potatoes and gravy anyway um i'm gonna go make myself some breakfast now and then i'm gonna start bleeding uh it has been a while since i've read it and i'm so excited to reread it again and i hope that everyone else that is rereading it for hashtag christyfest is loving it as much as i love it because i think it's amazing before i get reading breakfast so in my butter beer mug i have a little bit of apple juice i also have a big bottle of water to drink that for breakfast too i have a green tea this is mango and lychee in a so greek so chic mug it's from hercules who doesn't love hercules who doesn't want to be meg um yeah i love hercules so there she is there's meg so yeah i try to remember to have a green tea in the morning if i can three drink breakfast and also because today i'm filming it is a sunday i've got toast which looks a bit weird um because the butter's gone into my jam earth but yeah i've got um a toasted jump i only have it on a sunday if i fancy it it's on a sunday so yeah yummy's get in my belly right okay so i'm gonna start reading the book now yeah strong poison but on a mornings quite often um me and julie as four mentioned earlier channel hungrybookworm we sometimes face time together on whatsapp and we read together so we don't do much else other than reading and we stop and we chat about things in the book that we think is really funny and sometimes we'll finish a book when we're reading together and then we'll be like oh what did you make of this what should you make of this we don't sometimes we read the same book like if it is a christy fest sometimes we'll be reading the same book at the same time sometimes we're reading different books so if i turn the camera around you can see julie there she is hello right what are you going to be reading this morning well at the moment i'm reading a book about bigfoot oh yes because you watched that documentary yes i um if i get a b in my bonnet about something that interests me i tend to sort of like go all hell for leather and watch everything i can find about it so i've watched every single documentary i could find about bigfoot now i'm i've got a book on my kindle about it so that's what i'm reading because i am waiting for my copy of strong poison to come from the library so in the meantime i'm just filling it in with bits and bobs until i can crack on with that yeah you've got a two-week wait haven't you i have i have mind you i think i've had i think i've done about a week now so i'm fingers crossed fingers crossed i thought well i'm going to support my local library um and use its services because it's only a really little tiny one and i'm kind of scared that it would disappear if we don't use it so and plus the fact i need to stop buying books because i'm spending way too much money awesome right let's get reading yes hello and what are you reading young sir nothing absolutely nothing [Music] oh look my notes from last time so strong poison five star loved writing style loved the ending even laughed at reveal with lord peter being so sarcastic fell for peter and feel like i got his humor great notes [Music] so i'm just reading away and i'm on page 29 so not very far through my reread um i forgot to say what it's about so at the beginning of the book i have a picture let me find it here we are we have harriet vane she is in the dock and she is charged she's a she's a writer of detective stories and she's charged with the murder of her ex partner lover boyfriend whatever you want to call him via poisoning arsenic poisoning and it looks like quite a close cut captioning not sort of thing available you know people are saying um lord peter's like charles um you ought not to be allowed out with me you've made a mistake called ma'am so he lord peter's convinced she didn't do it and then um some people from like newspapers are talking and then in this bit there's this couple who i'll stop behind lord peter talk about whether she did it or not and um she's like oh well have you ever seen a murder and he's like oh well i haven't maddened two swords oh wax works everyone looks like a murderer and wax works well perhaps they do have a chalk i just love that i love says writing she's just brilliant at doing humor and like serious stuff yeah just loving the reread okay so i've been reading for a fair few hours now and you can see the sun um yeah it's gone all sunny now which is nice puppy's gonna rearrange and here's his fleefy tail um i'm gonna stop some lunch now i'm on page 117 and i'm really really really enjoying it so good i just love her writing i forget how funny this book is but also so serious at the same time i just love it so pause for lunch break i think okay lunch my lunch for anybody that's interested um i have the lunch of a five-year-old so starting off i have a sausage roll it's one of the vegan sausage rolls from aldi but i don't like um pastry and i don't like ends so i've cut the ends off and cut the pastry off this side so no excess pastry a handful of chips with salt and pepper put pepper on chips if you don't already and then you can thank me later a bowl of grapes you know balanced diet so balanced here and then a diet lemonade because why not and of course it's on a flipping simpsons tray isn't it and while i'm eating my lunch i'm going to watch frost because a reader detective story watch detective crime love frost amazing so it's currently the afternoon now and what have i done after lunch i um did quite a bit more reading and then um puppy for his afternoon walk which was nice and now i'm feeling quite tired but i don't have very far to go through my book i've only got this little bit left and so i think i'm gonna finish reading this now um i've got like i don't know how many pages well probably about 50 pages to go i'd say so i'm going to finish this now and then um we'll check back in with you after and then you'll have to see what i'm doing after because i'm gonna do something after um which i don't you may know about already or you may not so yes checking with you in a bit and just like that i am done so i have finished strong poison i'm actually really really proud of myself to manage to like read that in a day um i mean i have been reading for quite a long time like i've been pretty much just reading it non-stop and it is like i don't even think it's 250 pages no it's not 230 something isn't it 235 and yeah i've been reading that so it's actually probably taken me longer than it should anyway but yeah i'm really pleased that i've read that i like having days where i don't do anything and i just get the chance to just sit and read a whole book in a day it's wonderful um so thoughts on strong poison the second time round love it the first time around i read it i thought it was brilliant and a masterpiece and just wonderful and so funny um and i just was getting used to everything but then second time around because i know what's going to happen i know all the twists and turns i know what lord peter's going to ask certain people to do um and certain places other people have got to go and and i was prepared for the ending but i think because i know everything that's going to happen similar to agatha christie i can just kind of sit back and relax a little bit more and i don't have to kind of guess who it's going to be again and my mind can just i i was giggling to myself so much throughout reading this book it was absolutely wonderful and yeah it just completely fills my heart up with joy i just love it so so much just every time i come back to a dorothy outsiders it reminds me of how much i love sayers and think she's wonderful and i think we say something's got a click for you for you to love her but oh but she love her she's amazing so yes so glad that i read that um i'm now going to watch this is what i was talking about i'm going to leave the vlog here but i am going to watch strong poison um the what's the sector called edward petherbridge who plays lord peter and harriet walter who plays harriet vane this oh no this is gorgeous night um but yeah i'm gonna watch it on the tv now and might watch because there are episodes so i might watch one or two it depends how much time i've got um because i do want to do some stuff today other than literally sit on my bum and read which is literally all i've done all day so but yeah i hope you've really enjoyed this reading vlog if you have let me know in the comments section and let me know if you have started rereading sayers and what you think of says on a reread love says on a reread i think i actually prefer her stuff on a reread to a natural read so yeah thank you so much for watching i'm gonna get watching the tv show now so thank you so much for watching and i shall see you soon bye i have to say i do love this adaptation i love the opening too it's so good yay

Channel: Lil's Vintage World

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Length: 14min 41sec (881 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 18 2021