Wednesday reading, etc
I'm currently reading The Golden City by Kathleen Cheney, which is enjoyable so far (She's a Siren spy! He's half-selkie! They Fight Crime! In 1902 Portugal!), an anthology called Daily Life In Victorian London, and Dave Barry Does Japan.
Recently I've read several 1930s-40s mysteries by Patricia Wentworth that aren't from her Miss Silver series, several of the Donna Andrews bird-themed mysteries, Sara Pascoe's non-fiction Animal: the Autobiography of a Female Body which was very good, and a couple of SFFs that I can't remember where I got the recommendation from- A Calculated Life and Gemsigns Revolution- which were also enjoyable, and a collected volume of Dinosaur Comics. It's been a good run of books.
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Last weekend I got a lift to Ikea and spent a lot of money, and then a lot of time putting things together; this weekend I went to a comedy festival in London (ARGcomFest, which was excellent); I decided to get the 11.30 PM train out of London and then a taxi home at 2.30 AM, as being cheaper than another night in a hotel- it worked reasonably well, I got a bit of sleep on the train and a bit at home and wasn't totally wiped out, although having a meeting first thing in the morning wasn't ideal.
If anybody is going to Edinburgh and wants recs: Sketch groups Daphne and Lazy Susan, stand-ups James Acaster and Mark Watson, a character show from Andrew Hunter Murray, and complete inexplicability from John-Luke Roberts were all ace. Grainne Maguire and Naomi Peterson were very good too. Also, as always, the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (I'm going twice in Edinbugh. Woo.)- I'm not sure if my favourite act was the man being a fireworks display, the woman being an egg, or the host making risotto live on stage.
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Recently I've read several 1930s-40s mysteries by Patricia Wentworth that aren't from her Miss Silver series, several of the Donna Andrews bird-themed mysteries, Sara Pascoe's non-fiction Animal: the Autobiography of a Female Body which was very good, and a couple of SFFs that I can't remember where I got the recommendation from- A Calculated Life and Gemsigns Revolution- which were also enjoyable, and a collected volume of Dinosaur Comics. It's been a good run of books.
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Last weekend I got a lift to Ikea and spent a lot of money, and then a lot of time putting things together; this weekend I went to a comedy festival in London (ARGcomFest, which was excellent); I decided to get the 11.30 PM train out of London and then a taxi home at 2.30 AM, as being cheaper than another night in a hotel- it worked reasonably well, I got a bit of sleep on the train and a bit at home and wasn't totally wiped out, although having a meeting first thing in the morning wasn't ideal.
If anybody is going to Edinburgh and wants recs: Sketch groups Daphne and Lazy Susan, stand-ups James Acaster and Mark Watson, a character show from Andrew Hunter Murray, and complete inexplicability from John-Luke Roberts were all ace. Grainne Maguire and Naomi Peterson were very good too. Also, as always, the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (I'm going twice in Edinbugh. Woo.)- I'm not sure if my favourite act was the man being a fireworks display, the woman being an egg, or the host making risotto live on stage.
This entry was originally posted at http://shark-hat.dreamwidth.org/200233.html. Comment here or there.