Wednesday has done two bits of life admin, and draft of a review
What I read
Finished Murder in the Dark, interesting entry in the series - bringing in back-story that even our protag doesn't know.
Ursula Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (2017): lovely, and full of things to ponder.
Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement (2018): bit of a let-down - sequel to Dear Committee-Members, which I thought really rocked the epistolary form, and this was a much more usual standard third-person narrative campus novel.
Kris Ripper, As La Vista Turns (2017), 5th and final volume of Queers of La Vista (though apparently there is a short story if you sign up for zir newsletter): this was really a great ending to the sequence.
On the go
Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present (2017). Gosh, this is dense, but it really covers All The Ground, and Hutton is so not a historian who would ever commit to the dread phrase 'must have'. Critical, sceptical, great. (I think we should inaugurate a Margaret Murray award for historians who perpetrate works somewhat outside their own sphere of expertise, which do not convince people actually in the field, but get massively taken up and are hugely influential outside that field and on popular culture, no, why are you all looking at me like that?)
Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (2018). Not very far into this yet.
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