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Trying to get back to doing this.
What I Just Finished Reading
The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell. I was actually in the mood for a Dorothy L. Sayers but I had this book by Sarah Caudwell on my Kindle. I have read it before but it was so long ago that it was like rediscovering it for the first time. The best way I can describe it is as an unlikely offspring of a menage a trois between Dorothy L. Sayers, P.G. Wodehouse and the TV series "Silk". It's very witty, sometimes laugh out loud funny crime fiction set in the world of the law. The unique spin of Sarah Caudwell's books (sadly only four of them as she died far too young) is the fact that no gender is given for the narrator Professor Hilary Tamar. This gives a very interesting slant on the relationship between the narrator and the young lawyers he/she is so friendly with. The mystery is a good one but the charm of the book is really in the wit. It may be too mannered for some but I loved it.
What I'm Reading Now
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. As the last book was partly set in Greece I picked on this one as something easy and quick as I'm just not in the mood for heavy at the moment. I am obviously not its target audience but just because I missed being in the target audience by a very large number of years doesn't mean I can't enjoy it. It's fun so far :)
Malory: the Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler by Christina Hardyment. Still slogging away with this, still torn between annoyance and sympathy at the author's overuse of assumptions about what Malory was doing without a shred of evidence. I've got on to his better documented career now but I really had to take a break.
What I'm Reading Next
Not a clue.
In other news: my Tuesday night's now contain a large hole where the Great British Bake Off used to be.
I was rooting for Kimberley but in the end I thought Frances deserved to win.
In order to bid GBBO a fond farewell I actually made a cake yesterday so we wouldn't be tortured by hunger while watching the judges, Mel and Sue taste everything. The cake is actually delicious but I've never mastered the art of drizzling, which comes out more like splodging, and my cake making is always enlivened by my total inability to line a tin. I used to cut, measure and swear at the paper, now I just ram it in the tin and hope for the best.
What I Just Finished Reading
The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell. I was actually in the mood for a Dorothy L. Sayers but I had this book by Sarah Caudwell on my Kindle. I have read it before but it was so long ago that it was like rediscovering it for the first time. The best way I can describe it is as an unlikely offspring of a menage a trois between Dorothy L. Sayers, P.G. Wodehouse and the TV series "Silk". It's very witty, sometimes laugh out loud funny crime fiction set in the world of the law. The unique spin of Sarah Caudwell's books (sadly only four of them as she died far too young) is the fact that no gender is given for the narrator Professor Hilary Tamar. This gives a very interesting slant on the relationship between the narrator and the young lawyers he/she is so friendly with. The mystery is a good one but the charm of the book is really in the wit. It may be too mannered for some but I loved it.
What I'm Reading Now
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. As the last book was partly set in Greece I picked on this one as something easy and quick as I'm just not in the mood for heavy at the moment. I am obviously not its target audience but just because I missed being in the target audience by a very large number of years doesn't mean I can't enjoy it. It's fun so far :)
Malory: the Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler by Christina Hardyment. Still slogging away with this, still torn between annoyance and sympathy at the author's overuse of assumptions about what Malory was doing without a shred of evidence. I've got on to his better documented career now but I really had to take a break.
What I'm Reading Next
Not a clue.
In other news: my Tuesday night's now contain a large hole where the Great British Bake Off used to be.
I was rooting for Kimberley but in the end I thought Frances deserved to win.
In order to bid GBBO a fond farewell I actually made a cake yesterday so we wouldn't be tortured by hunger while watching the judges, Mel and Sue taste everything. The cake is actually delicious but I've never mastered the art of drizzling, which comes out more like splodging, and my cake making is always enlivened by my total inability to line a tin. I used to cut, measure and swear at the paper, now I just ram it in the tin and hope for the best.