What I read
Finished A Bite of the Apple: and, okay, I see there did have to be a fair amount in there about the practicalities of publishing and the various decisions that were made and compromises that had to be borne with; and that if it had not been Virago the reporting would not have been heavily leaning on the 'cat-fighting' stereotypes when ( Read more... )

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There was a massive re-read of AJ Hall's Queen of Gondal saga - including I think a couple at least of episodes I'd missed, at least, I didn't have them on my Kobo.
Barbara Hambly, Scandal in Babylon (Silver Screen #1) (2021) - very good, not perhaps one of the absolutely top Hamblys, but that is a very high bar. While there is a ( Read more... )

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Well, I think I've come to the end of the Antonia Fraser Jemima Shore binge - there are a couple of volumes of short stories, at least one of which I think I have somewhere, but I'm not madly bothered. I finished Your Royal Hostage, read The Cavalier Case (Jemima Shore, #7) (1990) and Political Death (Jemima Shore #8) (1994). Am still ( Read more... )

What I read
Well, I did indeed complete the Cat Sebastian binge: It Takes Two To Tumble, A Gentleman Never Keeps Score and Two Rogues Make A Right. And that is it until the next thing Ms Sebastian brings out (? sequel to Hither, Page?)
Read the Ben Aaronvitch Tales from the Folly, new collection of assorted shorts mostly written to specific remits ( Read more... )

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Finished The Angel of the Crows which, hmmmm, interesting, but the bar is set very high for Monette/Addison and I didn't think this quite came up to my expectations. Without those I might have been more impressed?
Zen Co, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (2020): not sure if this was entirely the best thing to read after the ( Read more... )

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Well, I finished the Hambly Benjamin January shorts: A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven and There Shall Your Heart Be Also (I'm finding it hard to date these, as I think some of them I acquired before I had an e-reader as pdf files but the dates I can find are for the publication on Smashwords which I am pretty sure is later).
Alix E ( Read more... )

What I read
Still all Barbara Hambly Benjamin January, all the time: finished Die Upon a Kiss, went on to Wet Grave, Dead Water (2004), and then two of the more recent ones, Crimson Angel (2014) and Lady of Perdition (2019), which brings me completely up to date until such time as the next one comes out. Have gone on to the associated short stories ( Read more... )

What I read
Well, it was still all Barbara Hambly Benjamin January mysteries, all the time: A Free Man of Color (1997), Fever Season (1998) (as I remarked the other day, possibly epidemics of yellow fever and cholera were not quite what I wanted, but I persisted), Graveyard Dust (1999) and Sold Down the River (2000).
Have also done some research ( Read more... )

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A little more Simon Brett re-reading - another Charles Paris, The Cinderella Killer (2014) and the one of the Fethering mysteries that actually gets away from Fethering, The Tomb in Turkey (2015).
Yet more Barbara Hambly Benjamin January mysteries: Cold Bayou (2018), Good Man Friday (2013), and Days of the Dead (2003): it may be ( Read more... )

What I read
Finished The Shirt on His Back.
Robin Steven, The Case of the Drowned Pearl: A Murder Most Unladylike Mini-Mystery: World Book Day 2020 - one of the shorter interspersed ones. Agreeable but a bit slight. Pulls a classic Christie solution...
Aster Glenn Gray, Briarley (2018), a (freebie) very charming riff on the Beauty and the Beast ( Read more... )