Wednesday has been to the dentist and has to return
What I read
Finished A Time of Daughters, Book One, and look forward to Book Two.
The most recent Slightly Foxed.
Mo Moulton, The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women (2019), which is very good and very readable, even if the title perhaps makes wider claims than it can sustain (or at least, they were among a generation of women affected by the changes of their era and the ways that enabled them to influence the world). I was particularly chuffed that there was so much on Charis Frankenberg, birth-control clinic pioneer, though less on the more peripheral member of the group, Margaret Chubb later Pyke, massively important in the Family Planning Association (but that's me). I was also very pleased at the extremely nuanced way in which issues around sexuality and gender identity were addressed.
Heather Rose Jones, Floodtide: A Novel of Alpennia (2019), which is lovely - a look from the underside of society, the servants and the service economy and the folk practices of charms rather the high-class arts of thaumaturgy and mysteries.
Muriel Jaeger, The Question Mark (1926, republished 2019 with an intro by Mo Moulton). Jaeger, known as 'Jim', was one of the Mutual Admiration Society. I'm not sure this u/dystopian novel really worked for me - it possibly loses somewhat by comparison with Rose Macaulay's What Not (1918), which I read earlier this year, and I didn't think is as good as Jaeger's own later The Man with Six Senses (1927).
On the go
Have just started Ben Aaronovitch's The October Man (2019), which I had been holding off on simply because it seemed highly priced for a novella, but has now come down to what I consider a more reasonable sum.
Have also started on big fat serious academic tome for review (Sid says HAI!).
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