No - can it be? Yes, it's Wednesday
What I read
Finished That Lady, which, sort of interesting, but I kept thinking that while one doesn't necessarily want forsoothery and godswottery in srs historical novels, there was I thought a certain anachronism in the way people were talking about politics and religion in a setting meant to be C16th Spain under Philip II. I suppose compare/contrast with the way one feels O'Brien is bang on the nail in the books set closer to home.
Also finished Secret Horse, which was I guess interesting as PONY BOOK! in setting v dissimilar to the kind of thing I was reading around age 12, what seems like 90% of it by the Pullein-Thompson sisters and their ma, Joanna Canaan, and yet still with some of the same tropes going on.
Jonathan Kellerman, Motive (2015) - boy, he really is phoning these in these days, isn't he?
Catherine Fox, Unseen Things Above (2015) - awwwwww. Lovely.
On the go
Having now got the new Kobo and got it up and running, continuing with The Corner That Held Them: but although it's wonderful, it's also not got the 'must find out what happens next' factor going for it, so a bit picking up and putting down.
Heather Rose Jones, Daughter of Mystery (2014) - which I'd seen various people speak well of and then forgot the details and then was reminded of again so downloaded a preview and then continued to purchase. (Gosh, I saw the editor was Katharine V. Forrest, author of Daughters of a Coral Dawn and quite a good series of lesbian thrillers that seems to have stopped.)
Barbara Hambly, Darkness on his Bones (2015) - received today, just started.
Also still dipping into various pop-hist works for RESEARCH.
Up next
I discovered the other day that there was a Tony Fennelly mystery of quite recent date that I hadn't come across before - it's Margo Fortier rather than Matt Sinclair, but still.
Also, I scored 3 Greyladies books, 1 Gladys Mitchell and 2 by authors I haven't tried, 99p each in a charity shop. Yay. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2316368.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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