Wednesday sends kind thanks to all who have drawn her attention to the PRB + wombat article
What I read
Finished Lara Feigel, Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing (2018), about which I posted at greater length yesterday. Readable on the level of the actual prose writing, but annoying.
Rachel O'Neill, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (2018), which I think is also brewing a longer post of its own, if a rather more positive one (it is a good, if really rather depressing, study, is the short take).
Sally Britton, The Earl and His Lady (2018) - which was a freebie, and much-needed light relief. Very light relief. She is a recent widow who needs to remarry to prevent her nasty brother in law gaining custody of her children and the estate and playing ducks and drakes with her son's inheritance, he is a highminded and benevolent not quite so recent childless widower... and it's mostly very low-key stuff though one knows that there is going to be some nasty intervention by the thwarted brother in law at some point.
On the go
Still making my slow way through Foundryside. I have certain doubts about these grimdark societies in which every person's hand is just about against everyone else's, it's all very Hobbesian/Social Darwinist: I'm not entirely sure whether any society can continue to be functional under such circumstances, not for very long, anyway.
Just started, Christel Lane, From Taverns to Gastropubs: Food, Drink, and Sociality in England (2018): freebie from an academic press for services rendered.
Up next
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