Wednesday actually uncovered a copy of very old article somebody asked for
What I read
Finished Redbark (The Phoenix Feather #2) and am longing for the next installment.
Two Robert B Parkers, Paper Doll (1993) and Dream Girl (2006) (Spenser #20 and 34), which passed an idle hour or so.
Re-read after many years of Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956), and it is still, yay, Sir Angus for the win. Reading this, I realised that Sir Angus does here and elsewhere real midlife/late-life crisis in which our protag is confronted by a moral dilemma/a shattering life change/something overturning their preconceptions, and they actually have to confront that in what is quite a convoluted and messy and compromised process (suspect As If By Magic was pretty much depicting the failure mode in Hamo) and nonetheless doing something. The outcome is far from perfect (in ASA Gerald fails to resolve anything as regards his family relations, even if his career revives) but it's not 'everything has gone entirely to hell'.
Olivia Dade, All the Feels (Spoiler Alert #2) (2021). This seemed a bit predictable after Spoiler Alert? the beats seemed to come in the same places.
On the go
TL Huchu, The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1) (2021), which I have had for some reason on my ereader for some time - I think I was probably lured by the prospect of this kind of noirish urban fantasy in a) not London b) Edinburgh, which has its own spooky traditions, no? which I was somehow anticipating it might reference a bit more? Okay, we are in post-some kind of vaguely apocalyptic event dystopia, and it is modern multi-cultural Scotland, and maybe there is more yet to come. Am also finding the pacing a bit strange.
Up next
Maybe get down more Sir Angus from that high shelf?
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