Whinging and reading
I guess I'm really starting to feel that I've worked 8 days in a row, since I've been feeling awfully tired these past few days, even though I've had proper min. 8 hour sleep at nights and all. At least I've got the weekend off, though I've promised to go and take care of my sister's kids on Saturday afternoon. But even then, I'll have the evening free.
I guess part of the reason is that I've been doing mostly evening shifts with only yesterday and today on day a shift. I also always start feeling like I need more sleep in Autumns when it starts to get darker and darker. I guess I should invest on one of those bright light lamp thingies, maybe that would help a bit.
Oh well, enough whinging, and on to mini-comments on my latest reading, which consists of (92.) Peter O'Donnell's The Night of Morningstar and (93.) Minette Walters's Ruutitynnyri [The Tinder Box].
In The Night of Morningstar, Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin go against a powerful terrorist organization known as The Watchmen, who have done several prominent hits, but have always claimed to be working for various different causes. There is a bigger plan behind this all, however, and it's up to Modesty and Willie to stop them. As usual, they get involved with it all quite accidentally, but pretty soon the goal becomes personal to them.
I quite like the novels and comics in the Modesty Blaise series. The comics were a regular feature in a Finnish magazine called Agentti X9 which had all kinds of crime, detective and secret agent type of comics in addition to things like Jeff Hawke and Garth in it. Modesty was always my favourite.
Later on I decided to check out a couple of the novels as well. At the moment, I think Last Day in Limbo is the only one of the novels that haven't read (though it's alluded to in TNotM, since some of the characters first appeared in it), but I'm hoping I'll get hold of it some day.
Ruutitynnyri was fitting as my next read, since it's a mystery set in a small English village where the son of an Irish family is suspected of having murdered to old women and robbing them. His parents are feeling threatened and it looks like the narrator, Siobhan Lavenham, is the only one standing up for them.
Things aren't quite so clear-cut, however, and all characters are revealed to have more shades to them than is initially shown, which is one of the reasons I very much enjoy reading Minette Walters's books. The characters are believable and she keeps the tension at a high level before the final reveal which most of the time manages to surprise the reader.
This book felt a bit light compared to some of her others, but I suspect it's mainly due to it's short length. I suspect this isn't really longer than novella or novelette length, but it was still published as a hardcover by the local publisher.
I guess part of the reason is that I've been doing mostly evening shifts with only yesterday and today on day a shift. I also always start feeling like I need more sleep in Autumns when it starts to get darker and darker. I guess I should invest on one of those bright light lamp thingies, maybe that would help a bit.
Oh well, enough whinging, and on to mini-comments on my latest reading, which consists of (92.) Peter O'Donnell's The Night of Morningstar and (93.) Minette Walters's Ruutitynnyri [The Tinder Box].
In The Night of Morningstar, Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin go against a powerful terrorist organization known as The Watchmen, who have done several prominent hits, but have always claimed to be working for various different causes. There is a bigger plan behind this all, however, and it's up to Modesty and Willie to stop them. As usual, they get involved with it all quite accidentally, but pretty soon the goal becomes personal to them.
I quite like the novels and comics in the Modesty Blaise series. The comics were a regular feature in a Finnish magazine called Agentti X9 which had all kinds of crime, detective and secret agent type of comics in addition to things like Jeff Hawke and Garth in it. Modesty was always my favourite.
Later on I decided to check out a couple of the novels as well. At the moment, I think Last Day in Limbo is the only one of the novels that haven't read (though it's alluded to in TNotM, since some of the characters first appeared in it), but I'm hoping I'll get hold of it some day.
Ruutitynnyri was fitting as my next read, since it's a mystery set in a small English village where the son of an Irish family is suspected of having murdered to old women and robbing them. His parents are feeling threatened and it looks like the narrator, Siobhan Lavenham, is the only one standing up for them.
Things aren't quite so clear-cut, however, and all characters are revealed to have more shades to them than is initially shown, which is one of the reasons I very much enjoy reading Minette Walters's books. The characters are believable and she keeps the tension at a high level before the final reveal which most of the time manages to surprise the reader.
This book felt a bit light compared to some of her others, but I suspect it's mainly due to it's short length. I suspect this isn't really longer than novella or novelette length, but it was still published as a hardcover by the local publisher.