Wednesday saw a group of Hare Krishnas with an accordion outside Oxford Circus tube station
What I read
Finished Secret Historian: just possibly I felt that the author had fallen into the temptation, with a life so extensively documented by the person living it, to put in perhaps just a little more than we needed; or perhaps not. There was just occasionally a feeling that it was a bit repetitive: Steward arranges an orgy, Steward has consensual rough sex, Steward gets non-consensually roughed up while cruising, Steward documents all of this in his 'Stud file'. On the other hand it is interesting as documenting a specific period and a life of some complexity - i.e. ranging from being a dear friend of Gertrude Stein to tattooing Hell's Angels - and changes in attitudes to homosexuality.
For a change of pace, Robin Stevens, Cream Buns and Crime: A Murder Most Unladylike Collection (2017), various short pieces in the Wells & Wong-verse.
Rumer Godden, Thursday's Children (1984), another one picked up in Skoob Books the other week - I'm sure I read this ages ago but didn't recall much about it except that it included a ballet which sounded like an expansion of the one in A Candle for St Jude. Another one of the Goddens that doesn't quite do it for me (whereas A Candle for St Jude did.)
With the upheavals to do with the building work, books got moved around and various things surfaced, including Jane Haddam, Wanting Sheila Dead (2010), which I couldn't find when I was on my Haddam binge in January, so read it this week.
On to go
Kameron Hurley, The Stars are Legion (2017), which has been in virtual tbr pile for some time - saw somebody reccing it in a thread which did not entirely lead me to expect quite such a crapsack world/universe, and I'm not terribly engaged by the protags, either (okay Nyx was not Nice but was Interesting, one wanted to know what next). Thus I took a break for the Jane Haddam.
And also for, what also turned up during the upheaval, Roz Kaveney, Resurrections (Rhapsody of Blood, #3) (2014) - the resurrection of which also made me look to see if there was any hint that volume 4 might be forthcoming, and, lo and behold, Realities came out 2 weeks ago and I now have it on order.
Up next
Depending on when it arrives, Realities. There is also a new Marcia Muller McCone mystery calling my name. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2805640.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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