Wednesday did the online shopping and baked a herb and onion loaf
What I read
Finished Dead Land, read the short story collection V.I. for Short, still jonesing a bit for snarky Chicago noir. There is allegedly another short story collection out in a fortnight or so, details are a bit sparse.
Thought I might try a re-read of Laurie R King's Kate Martinelli mysteries and started A Grave Talent (1993) but really bounced off it - perhaps too much of a change of pace from Paretsky? One of those 'here is a weird somewhat isolated community' and a serial-killer plot and I was just not connecting with that (I think the blurb mentioned PD James and that was a bit of the vibe).
The latest Slightly Foxed and the most recent Literary Review.
Hit that thing of, well it was not exactly not knowing what to read, it was having inclinations to read things I'm pretty sure are there somewhere but not in the places where I've looked, so had a bit of an Agatha Christie binge: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), The Body in the Library (1942) and A Murder is Announced (1950).
On the go
The new Laurie R King Mary Russell mystery has landed, Riviera Gold - readable but not a page-turner, and I'm not sure I'm entirely taken with this thing that she's lately doing of having Real People of the Roaring 20s in the cast. I could just about being doing with the Characters from Adjacent Fictional Universes, but...
Up next
Well, I suppose I could turn the place upside down looking for The Towers of Trebizond, which does not seem to be available as an ebook, horrors.
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