Wednesday has developed its own set of routine things to mark out the day
What I read
Finished Defender Hellhound - quite fun.
And then I had a spate of starting things in a 'what-do-Tiggers-like-to-eat?' fashion and putting them down after a very short while, and then defaulted to Agatha Christie, Hickory Dickory Dock (1955), which is coming up for that late period and milieux in which one feels Dame Agatha was not quite on home ground, though I did feel I would give her marks over Ngaio Marsh and Marjorie Allingham when depicting characters of colour, though that's a very low bar and she is far from impeccable. Also read, on and off, The Labours of Hercules (1947, though the settings are, I think, all earlier than that).
The most recent (as far as I know) Simon R Green Ishmael Jones spooky mysteries, Night Train to Murder (2019) and The House on Widow's Hill (2020), both of which are basically locked-room style mysteries with certain spooky trappings (alongside the central issue of IJ's own origins...)
Gina Dalfonzo, Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis (2020): this is really rather charming. It's written very much from the perspective of somebody coming to both of them as Christian writers, and she is very explicitly making a case for the value of friendship between men and women as possible and creatively productive and theologically okay. I felt that she perhaps missed a point, in that Sayers was very much not about 'lipstick and nylons' and rather butch both in writing style and personal presentation, which I suspect Lewis found congenial and must have contributed to their becoming closer (along with the being a married lady).
On the go
I started Aliette de Bodard, Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight (2019) - short stories, rather intense, have to space them out in reading rather.
Just begun, Sherry Thomas, Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5) (2020).
Up next
Probably Jo Walton, Or What You Will (2020), as goodness knows when my ordered copy of Return of the Thief is likely to arrive.
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