Wednesday? Again?
What I read
Following a reference to the first one somewhere online, I've been re-reading Jane Dentinger's Jocelyn O'Roarke mysteries - our protag is an actor/director, gets involved in various workplace mysteries, and has a rather troubled relationship with an NY police detective (plus another guy who pops up in a later episode). I appear to be missing no 3 Death Mask, which I have on order, but have made my way through Murder on Cue (1983), First Hit of the Season (1984), Dead Pan (1992), The Queen is Dead (1994). The series is quite more-ish (as may be deduced), but I remembered very little about any of these. Very much on the cosier side.
Also a long J D Robb short story, Ritual in Death (2008) - is she moving towards bringing in more slightly fantasy elements?
Plus, this kind person has put online 6 uncollected stories by Saki, which I also read during the course of the week.
There was some Sekkrit Projekt reading as well.
On the go
Still only partway through the final Jocelyn O'Roarke mystery, Who Dropped Peter Pan? (1995).
Plus Peter's Room for the
trennels readthrough.
Just dipped into Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad (2014), which is now out in ebook.
Up next
Well, more Spirits Abroad I guess. The latest Jane Haddam, ordered well over a week ago, cometh not and I have had an apologetic email from Wordery about the holdup. However, I do have a new Margaret Maron Sigrid Haraldsen mystery,though I think this may just be a new edition rather than a new entry in the series (this was not at all clear from the publishing details), and several other things, including John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (2013) (collection of essays) as Pickering and Chatto were having a knockdown sale on several of their hardbacks (priced even lower than their ebooks for a short time). This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2163083.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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