Wednesday is still waiting on certain deliveries, well past anticipated date
What I read
Finally finished Fuckology, with a sense of duty dispatched.
Read another Elswyth Thane, The Light Heart (1947), which comes immediately before Kissing Kin and I'm not sure I ever read before back in the day. Runs from the accession of Edward VII to middle of WW1. A bit more reflective of attitudes, manners and assumptions of the day, which on the one hand, it is historical fiction, and on the other hand, one is not entirely sure the author is taking that longer perspective... But very readable, the relationships complex and the romances not simplistic, good female friendships, solid work on researching things around the Great War, sinking of the Lusitania etc. Very anti-German (one young woman is married off by her ambitious mother to a German aristo, some years before the war, with plot consequences).
GB Stern, Seventy Times Seven (1957): this was not the Stern I was looking for, but it was very enjoyable.
Candas Jane Dorsey, What's the Matter with Mary Jane?: An Epitome Apartments Mystery (2021), which apparently came out in October and escaped my attention until very lately but at least this one was readily available via ebook, and very good - gripping in an 'I have to finish this' after a certain point way.
On the go
Still plodding on with Mary Shelley - oh, it is really quite depressing. Really want to drown PBS in a bucket (since he has not yet managed to do it himself), and confine Claire Clairemont in a nunnery. Mary does seem to have such a very thin time of it, and she is the one who is supposed to represent order and calm and then get rather dissed on for it, and considered Rather Unreasonable for being upset when her babies die.
Apropos of all the pregnancy etc, I am beswozzled that apparently Francis Place - described as 'a businessman' was known to them? He is best known to me as a pioneer figure in the annals of contraception, though this was possibly at a very slightly later date.
Up next
Not sure.
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