Wednesday (and Sid) are chuffed by friend's announcement of major research award
What I read
Finished A Civil Campaign and honestly, would we really recommend that she marries him? really?
However, I did then re-read The Flowers of Vashnoi (2018) and the short story 'Winterfair Gifts' (2004) to round off the binge.
On Thursday subscribers to KJ Charles' newsletter got a freebie short story tying up threads from Think of England and the Will Darling series, How Goes the World. Awwwwwww.
Martha Wells, Home, Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) (2020), short story from Mensah's viewpoint in the Murderbot sequence, follows Exit Strategy.
Jay Rayner, Chewing the Fat: Tasting notes from a greedy life (2021), at which I several times laughed out loud. Something not to be despised in these days.
The latest Slightly Foxed.
John D MacDonald, The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee, #4) (1964) - that not-knowing what to read next latish in the evening feeling. Did not remember this was so early in Ol' Trav's career. Of its era.
Jane Haddam, Living Witness (Gregor Demarkian, #24) (2009). Does a total Christie, no? Also this is the one where one feels the late Ms Haddam was working off her irks at certain members of the secular humanist community as well as the evangelical creationists....
Vera Caspary, Laura (1942): possibly this would work better if one had not read it after just having seen the famed noir movie made from it.... Also (and this is really about movie conventions perhaps) what is with this characters surely not even really subtextually coded as GAY GAY GAY like Waldo Lydecker or Addison de Witt in All About Eve getting all obsessive over a young woman?
Rachel Ferguson, A Footman for the Peacock (1940) - well, there was a slight spooky story in there, buried in a lot of what I can only describe as 'vamping until ready' to make up a whole novel. Also, it is Not The Author's Fault, but I have by now read an awful lot of novels/memoirs writ more or less about the same time and riffing on the same motifs of Phoney War Is A Muddle (and some of them are by writers who I would consider superior...)
Just given up: Alison Morton, Carina: (Roma Nova #1.5) (2017) - I understand there was a previous volume in this sequence and perhaps the set-up would have made more sense had I read that. It is - I dunno? - alternative present based on alternative history? thriller. Not inspired. However, I think it was a freebie?
On the go
Just started, Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer.
Up next
Well, next week there is a new Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost.
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