Maisie Dobbs
7 journalers for this copy...
Found in OBCZ Pilkku this evening. Whoever it was that left this, thank you for sharing!
I picked this up from OBCZ Pilkku. 1920's London sounds very attractive. I remember looking at this novel in a bookstore trying to make up my mind. Nice to have it here to read.
I enjoyed reading this, but not as much as I'd hoped for. The personal history of Maisie Dobbs in the terror of the WWI is very carefully researched and depicted with lots of attentive detail, but she stays oddly unlively despite all the love and tragedy. Her tutor and sponsor Maurice Blanche is a complete blank, a Poirot take-off without the humour, if anything.
The mystery side was rudimentary at best, and in my opinion the emphasis on intuition and the hints of the supernatural didn't do much for the story. A great pity, because it would have been really lovely to have a smart female PI set in 1920's London, of all places. If and when I come across the second Maisie Dobbs I'll probably read it, but don't expect much.
To be released.
The mystery side was rudimentary at best, and in my opinion the emphasis on intuition and the hints of the supernatural didn't do much for the story. A great pity, because it would have been really lovely to have a smart female PI set in 1920's London, of all places. If and when I come across the second Maisie Dobbs I'll probably read it, but don't expect much.
To be released.
Journal Entry 4 by oofiri at OBCZ Pilkku in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Thursday, March 18, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (3/18/2010 UTC) at OBCZ Pilkku in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland
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Still in Pilkku.
Took this from the Helsinki meetup today. Just couldn't resist a detective story set in London in the 20s...
Oops, finished this several days ago, but obviously forgot to journal - and now I've already forgotten most of what I was going to say. Oh well. Let's just say that this was enjoyable enough, but more because of the milieu of 1920's London and the historical details and atmosphere. Like oofiri says, there was not a lot of mystery at all.
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Reserved for AgdaAgulina, who chose this from the Arvoitusarkku circling envelope way back when. We've agreed that the book will change hands in February, when she returns back home from a month of theatre-making in Tallinn.
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Reserved for AgdaAgulina, who chose this from the Arvoitusarkku circling envelope way back when. We've agreed that the book will change hands in February, when she returns back home from a month of theatre-making in Tallinn.
Book finally here! Thank you!
This book might even get two readers while at ours...
This book might even get two readers while at ours...
Well now I have met and get to know Maisie Dobbs - sweet lady indeed, and sweet was the book too. I guess not such a detective. I might not need to read more (though there was cleverly attached a teaser of the next one in the end of the book...), but this was fast and fine little reading candy. Quite a balance for a creepy new Murakami I'm reading next to it...
And I liked the real cover of this particular book better than the one displayed here!
Thank you for having this book around, and now it will search for the next reader.
And I liked the real cover of this particular book better than the one displayed here!
Thank you for having this book around, and now it will search for the next reader.
Brought home from the BC-meet (Greater Helsinki area)
Rather enjoyed this little mystery book. Mystery really only in name, it's more about the first world war, life before and after the war and about class. Maisie was a teenager a century ago and while she was admitted to Cambridge, to their womens college, where women could study but apparently did not get degrees. How much has the world changed since? In Finland women are the majority in higher education now. A very well written and interesting book though the war is not the most uplifting of topics. War, what an utter waste.
This ones off to a friend in UK.
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Osallistun kirjalla 52 viikkoa -vapautushaasteeseen.
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Osallistun kirjalla 52 viikkoa -vapautushaasteeseen.
OOOO what a great surprise =) Kiitos!
I finished this a couple of days ago whilst I was on a training course in Edinburgh. I thought it was well written, and quite obviously very well researched - it seemed to really capture the issues of the time. As a mystery, well, that only takes up half the book, it wasn't a particularly complicated one, and she didn't strike me as an amazing detective. I wonder if that side will get going in the following books. This book, the first one, did get bogged down in Maisie's back story, which essentially is what this book is all about. Perhaps a little bit of a melodrama at times, but I suppose it portrays what a lot of young people would have experienced at the time; and how a lot of people's plans and hopes for the future were destroyed. It's also interesting that it looks at those men that survived but were so facially or bodily disfigured by their wounds, that they didn't feel they could fit back into society. It is just incredibly tragic.
I don't know whether I'd rush out to read the next books as I wasn't amazed by her mystery writing skills, but likewise if I came across another of her books, I wouldn't avoid it either.
I don't know whether I'd rush out to read the next books as I wasn't amazed by her mystery writing skills, but likewise if I came across another of her books, I wouldn't avoid it either.
Journal Entry 15 by Apechild at Bookmooch.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (6/20/2013 UTC) at Bookmooch.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases
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Sending to a reader in Sweden.
Journal Entry 16 by Sitta at -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Saturday, September 21, 2013
I received this book through Bookmooch from the UK, so I didn't find it!
Anyhow, I liked the book and I think that I will keep it. Is that cheating?
I think that the parts on First World War is rather interesting (although not pleasant, but then wars aren't - Why do people still keep starting them?!). The "mystery" is a bit strange, but at least unusual. May be a bir hard to realy Believe in Maisie Dobbs, but why not. A good read when you are a bit tired! I will look out for the next one.
PS As somebody said, the cover is much nicer on this edition!
Anyhow, I liked the book and I think that I will keep it. Is that cheating?
I think that the parts on First World War is rather interesting (although not pleasant, but then wars aren't - Why do people still keep starting them?!). The "mystery" is a bit strange, but at least unusual. May be a bir hard to realy Believe in Maisie Dobbs, but why not. A good read when you are a bit tired! I will look out for the next one.
PS As somebody said, the cover is much nicer on this edition!