Wednesday got a bit sidetracked down a research rabbit-hole
What I read
O Douglas, Jane's Parlour (1937), which I felt a bit meh about.
Jane Haddam, Flowering Judas (2011), re-read, just because, and because I couldn't remember the details of the plot.
EM Delafield, The Suburban Young Man (1928). This is definitely one for the Delafield completist, i.e. not bringing anything like her A game. (Apparently she wrote it in 7 weeks?) Has that vague feeling of someone to whom the muse delivered the wrong package of plot and characters, somehow. Okay, it does not bring the agonising miserabilism of Consequences or Thank Heaven Fasting, it's just a bit dull.
On the go
Let the Record Show, still, which is good, but feels best read in shortish doses and broken up with other things (I am not sure my choices on other things have been of the brightest).
Melissa Scott, Water Horse, just out. This seems awfully reminiscent of the sort of thing in the way of fantasy that I was reading several decades ago, which does not make it bad, just a bit unexpected.
Also there is a new Slightly Foxed which I am working on.
Up Next
That seems enough to be going on with for the moment, and there is a new Cat Sebastian coming out on Tuesday.
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