Reading as a cheap hobby

Coxy11

I’m currently reading Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg (aka Caudwell) from 1935. Not my usual genre but I’m enjoying it. It involves a mysterious plane crash (obvs) and a cocaine smuggling racket! Loving the language and the tally ho dialect. 

Brie

Coxy11 said:

I’m currently reading Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg (aka Caudwell) from 1935. Not my usual genre but I’m enjoying it. It involves a mysterious plane crash (obvs) and a cocaine smuggling racket! Loving the language and the tally ho dialect. 

There's a lot of novels written early 20th century that do have a lot of "jolly hockey sticks" type language.  I loved it when I went through a phase of reading a lot from that period like The 39 Steps where women were admired for having "the slim figure of a young school boy" which made me wonder about the male (normally) authors. 

Irrelevant side note - The 39 Steps was written by John Buchan about 20 years before he became Governor General of Canada.  While he didn't serve in this position for very long he did in his time manage to set up the Governor General's Literary Awards to promote writing by Canadian authors in both English and French.