Reading Ramble
I read the latest Alex Delaware (Kellerman) at the start of lockdown, and enjoyed it more than I have for a while. It inspired me to mainline them, so I read about 25-33 or so (the ones I have on kindle).
I’ve never mainlined them before due to getting the early ones from the library, so having to take what I could get, and then hanging out, these days, 12 months between releases.
Anyway, I’ve gone back to the beginning, I’m up to 4, (luckily mum gave me birthday money for books), and I’m really enjoying them (not really news, I know). Helpful that I’ve forgotten most of the plots so it’s like a brand new series, only with the joy of familiar characters and the comfort of knowing I’ll like them.
I’d also either missed or forgotten the continuity of the minor characters and the back story were given; the beginning of Alex and Milo’s friendship, the beginning of their relationships.
The 80s attitudes to sexuality are instructive, also - not so much the overt stuff, but the inbuilt stuff, because, of course, the books I’m reading now were written in the early eighties. I read them first in the late nineties and what’s also interesting is that at the time, I didn’t notice.
It feels like society changed very fast, but of course we’re talking 25 years so now I just feel old.
I’ve never mainlined them before due to getting the early ones from the library, so having to take what I could get, and then hanging out, these days, 12 months between releases.
Anyway, I’ve gone back to the beginning, I’m up to 4, (luckily mum gave me birthday money for books), and I’m really enjoying them (not really news, I know). Helpful that I’ve forgotten most of the plots so it’s like a brand new series, only with the joy of familiar characters and the comfort of knowing I’ll like them.
I’d also either missed or forgotten the continuity of the minor characters and the back story were given; the beginning of Alex and Milo’s friendship, the beginning of their relationships.
The 80s attitudes to sexuality are instructive, also - not so much the overt stuff, but the inbuilt stuff, because, of course, the books I’m reading now were written in the early eighties. I read them first in the late nineties and what’s also interesting is that at the time, I didn’t notice.
It feels like society changed very fast, but of course we’re talking 25 years so now I just feel old.