my book club

[jenk]

People look at me funny when I mention my book club.

Maybe it's because I call it "Lord Peter" or "the Lord Peter list". It is a mailing list, yes. Or rather, it's a book club that meets in email, centered on the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries set in Britain from 1922 through the early 1940s.
Naturally, being a mailing list, we discourse on many related topics, including the life of author — and Oxford grad, copywriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, translator, etc — Dorothy Sayers; Britain during the period; shell-shock; even change-ringing. But the heart of the "club" is when we read through all the books, one book a month, and discuss them. It's partly that different people see different things on re-read. It's also that the folks on the list all have different experiences to add. It's cool to discuss the book set at Oxford University with Oxford grads. The change-ringers on the list help a lot when we get to that book. And so on.

So, yes, I have a book club. Y'all are welcome to drop by if you want - we're reading Clouds of Witness this month.