Wednesday is chillin' with a margarita
What I read
Well, Fabulosa was pretty good, both about Polari per se and the gay social history, even if I thought it was a tad broad brush about the trajectories of change post 67. I was also a bit 'huh?' that someone who works in British slang and its diverse influences missed the Indian/or at least what one might consider Hobson-Jobson influences (some of which were not, I thought, peculiar to Polari, e.g. 'dhobie' I have encountered in other contexts).
Joanna Brady, Missing and Endangered (Joanna Brady, #19) (2021), I thought was pretty good. Possibly a bit too cozy about law enforcement, but good on toxic blood families vs ties of affection.
AS Byatt, A Whistling Woman (2002) - o dear, Antonia, I think you lost the plot in this one, or it kept turning into another novel, or perhaps several, that you actually wanted to write, rather than the novel about the people that the readers who had stuck with the tetralogy since the beginning rather expected... And that ending! OMG, how could you? I do not think wonderful symbolickal burgeoning, I think, tired ol' cop-out. Could Do Better. No wonder it had faded/been mercifully erased from memory.
Naomi Mitchison, Behold Your King (1957). Didn't find this one of the great Mitchisons (I realise I am not that fond of New Testament rewritings) and - again with the cop-out - leaves them gazing at the tomb, i.e. we do not know what she was going to do about the resurrection.
There has also been a lot of dipping into 30s/40s sexological writings for a research rabbit-hole project.
On the go
Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), as I thought I would give it another go.
Up next
Probably LMB, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, maybe.
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And tomorrow I am in anticipation of the books wot had been quietly sitting in a cupboard at my former workplace being delivered - which had been going to happen Before All This, and when I was in some hopes of having done some decluttering of the shelves in advance, SIIIIGH. There has been a bit of rearrangement but really - apart from having these books available to me - could do without.
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