Today has been redesignated Wednesday, for reasons
What I read
Finished Many Mansions, which went in rather different directions than I'd anticipated (with a good deal less of the horrid young man than I'd feared).
Also finished the Delafield, and while one could have hoped for more EMD and less extended quotation, I guess it was intended as an anthology-type affair.
Mated to the Meerkat: enjoyable fluff, although as I said somewhere recently, if it's not enjoyable, it's not actually fluff, it's some disgusting claggy substance that only pretends to be fluff (probably made of polystyrene).
Sara Paretsky, Brush Back (2015): in spite of how much US sports culture was in this, I enjoyed it, though perhaps not one of the top VI Warshawki novels.
Laurie R King, Dreaming Spies (2015), which pulls up somewhat from some of the less-inspired (or just mis-inspired) recent offerings, but on the other hand, not sure about what I think of the Japonaiserie/modern as at time of setting Japanese politics & diplomacy - somewhere on a boundary of implausible/problematic?
On the Go
Nevil Shute, What Happened to the Corbetts (1939) - immediately pre-WWII it could happen here narrative. I mark it up for realism about what would break down in the circs described and what people might do, and down for the uninteresting characters along with the casual classism, sexism, racism etc (central pov character habitually alludes to his wife, with whom he has 2 children, as a 'girl'). Not sure if I shall finish, as flipping through suggests that it doesn't go on to be full-out apocalypse. (Quite apart from all the stuff that with hindsight whut? like taking the family to safety in France...)
Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them (1948), on the Kobo, which is currently hanging, chiz.
Also flicking through various rather pop-hist or basic text works on a period which is not the usual main focus of my research... (much of what's out there seems to be rather too long-duree for my purposes, or very elite-male orientated).
Up Next
See above re e-reader. However, acquired yesterday 1 Margery Sharp + Kate O'Brien's That Lady, one of hers I have not read, think I may manage to survive... This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2310282.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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