Wednesday is still delving into the surprisingly copious residues of Times Past
What I read
Finished The Library of the Dead and you know, I was really expecting rather more about the actual library? it doesn't really feature very much. My cavils of last week pretty much remain. Okay, there was a Brounie at one point (trad Scottish folklore), but....
Naomi Mitchison, To the Chapel Perilous (1955) - apparently this is at last being reprinted in the Naomi Mitchison Library by Kennedy and Boyd, yay! - I have the fleetingly available early 2000s paperback reprint which I reread with great pleasure (some while since I did so - recent work on Naomi has involved the later sf and the realistic and polemic work of the 30s).
Robert B Parker, Sudden Mischief (1998) - because indecision/accessible shelf.
Angus Wilson, Late Call (1964) - which turned out to be in an easily gettatable place rather than a high shelf - and is still lovely. (But sigh, the wonderful TV serialisation doesn't appear to be available on DVD.) I'd forgotten that there's - not an actual redemptive moment for Sylvia's awful son Harold at the end, but the recognition that he is actually good for something (teaching basic literacy), even if it's not being a wonderful son or father or many of the things he would like to be.
Simon Brett, Guilt at the Garage (A Fethering Mystery Book 20) (2021), which I only just found out about. I thought this was quite a good entry in this series.
Angela Thirkell, Happy Return (1952). Seriously phoning it in on this one, Angela, in fact one gets the sense you were desperately trying to find some way out of a rambling narrative that was going on and on and on. Plus further minus points for the rah-rahing over the return of Tories to power and Churchill as PM.
On the go
Have just started Sherry Thomas, Miss Moriarty, I Presume? (Lady Sherlock #6), just out.
Up next
Latest issue of The Scribbler has arrived.
Also, have downloaded Cyril Hare, An English Murder, from The Faded Page, following the discussion of Country House Murder Mysteries.
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