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What I read
Episode 10 of Tremontaine Season 4.
Jonathan Kellerman, Night Moves (2018). Alex 'Smug' Delaware was a bit less annoying in this one: but it still rather conformed to the usual pattern.
Nicola Griffith, So Lucky (2018) - not sure how one classifies this - not, she emphasises in the afterword, the auto-fiction it was originally marketed as though drawing on her own experience of MS - horror, thriller, the politics of disability and activism: very good very intense.
Which was why I succumbed to what turned out to be a re-read of Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) - which is one of those early ones where one feels Dame Agatha was still finding her metier, even if Poirot does appear (also St Mary Mead, though no mention of Miss Marple WOT) - with certain properties that one suspects belong more in the works of Edgar Wallace e.g. the mysterious international jewel thief who wears a mask.
Also Mercedes Lackey, The Bartered Brides (2018) - possibly the only series of hers I'm still reading and I'm not sure why, habit? what with the bursts of Dick van Dyke cockernee speak and the struggle that is entirely between the forces of Darkness and Light over the heads of the Innocent Sheep, pretty much. Readable but...
Lily Maxton, A Lady's Desire (2018) f/f Regency which I saw recommended somewhere, but was not entirely sold on. I am really not sure the daughter of a noble house would be permitted to just leave and take up remunerative employment (rather than locked up in an attic on bread and water). Also, surely the beautiful Romantic Devotion of the Ladies of Llangollen in their picturesque Welsh seclusion would have been known about? All a bit rushed?
On the go
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter still lags; and The Letters of Noel Coward is very much a large hardback into which one dips.
Up next
The lates episode of Tremontaine Season 4. Also, the ebook of Robert Jackson Bennett's Foundryside, of which I have heard good report, was on sale this week at a very attractive price. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2854378.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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