Wednesday finds itself pottering about rather
What I read
Started, but DNF, a mystery that was on my shelves - but I don't think it was even a re-read, I don't think I'd ever got to it in the first place - Lisa Miscione, Angel Fire (2002). Just not my thing.
Unable to find where my Anthony Prices are - or at least, the earlier ones in the series. Not where I expected them to be. Only the later ones.
Carolyn Wheat, Dead Man's Thoughts (1983) - I was really quite relieved when a few pages from the end somebody finally pointed out that another character was bisexual, because previously I had been muttering 'bisexual erasure' under my breath. But otherwise, this was pretty much as good as I remembered, and I went straight on to Where Nobody Dies (1986). Fresh Kills (1995) (I feel there was a time when there was a flurry of mysteries about Adoption Racketeering...), and Mean Streak (1996). I think the first two had rather more hinterland of Cass Jameson's life as a lawyer (moving from a Legal Aid job into private practice) besides the specific case that was the focus of the story, but these are all pretty good. Quite a lot of moral ambiguity and grey areas.
On the go
Carolyn Wheat, Troubled Waters (1997) - there was also a phase of mysteries/thrillers in which Stuff That Happened During Idealistic 60s Activism Comes Back To Bite People, this is among them.
Still working on A Lab of Her Own - it just got a little depressing with all the 'and then her contribution was erased from history' or at least not properly acknowledged. (And OMG nothing on Letitia Fairfield, I am shocked! shocked!)
Entirely for research purposes (I may have heretofore remarked that I never quite got the Angela Carter admiration, it's all very well, but a lot of the stuff she was doing, people like Tanith Lee were doing but not getting the notice for because it was in genre), Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman (1978) - OMG there's a lot of 70s feminism stuff in there, some of which maketh me to sigh deeply, and also I wonder how much she was saying what de Beauvoir already said about the Marquis...
Up Next
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