Wednesday was slightly Kafkaesque
What I read
Finished Pansies - I did not feel the elements of regional demotic were as jarring as they were in Glitterland, possibly because they were not being mediated by the consciousness of the first-person narrator of that? Quite sweet. Also, being, it appears, on somewhat of an Alexis Hall kick - I am not sure it is altogether desirable to binge them - Looking for Group (2016), in which the plot is heavily dependent on large amounts of futtock-shroudery to do with multi-player online gaming (there are probably nuances to this that I was not getting) rather than extended boinking scenes.
KJ Charles, Unfit to Print came out yesterday, and as I mentioned, I was in for a tedious amount of journeying to and from Kew. Novella, the smut trade in Victorian London...
Karen Traviss, Black Run (2017), sequel to Going Grey, the existence of which I only recently discovered. Not sure it quite lived up to Going Grey, because of the introduction of a B-plot which was nothing to do with the repercussions of the events in GG but older backstory stuff that I thought reduced rather than ratcheted the tensions somewhat, even if oen could see why it had been put in.
On the go
Phil Cohen, Archive That, Comrade!: Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance (2018), which I am finding both interesting/intriguing and annoying - at least partly, or even largely, because the author uses 'archive' both in the popular very loose way meaning just about any kind of historical source material or collection of same, and in the more specific sense of a professionally-run archive, and has clearly not spoken to any professional archivists except as a reader and there are points where I go aaaargh! and that's not what archivists do and archivists have been thinking about that for a long time and archivists have to balance access and long-term preservation and archives can be read against their apparent grain and and and... So it is currently on hold.
Jane Rule, Loving the Difficult (2008) - dipping into this, because it's essays. And they do seem a bit to be of the specific moment at which they were written concerning some particular issue. I should perhaps really get back to her novels.
Cat Sebastian, A Gentleman Never Keeps Score, which also came out yesterday.
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