What I've been reading

I read Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Life and Art. I've always loved 17th c. Dutch still lifes with food, which comprise the majority of the selection of paintings. There are also period recipes that you can try yourself to go with it, but they are in a separate companion pamphlet.

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I read Lolly Willowes, which is a very odd book. It reminds me of something Jo Walton said once, about how she would be reading a literary fiction book and stumble across a metaphor involving, say, vampires, and then get distracted by what the book could be like if it contained actual, non-metaphorical vampires. It seems ( Read more... )

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I read Duplicate Death, one of the only Georgette Heyer mysteries I hadn't read. I had hoped that the bridge game would come more into the mystery and it really didn't; it did, however, manage to feature two of my least favorite elements in mysteries of this vintage, ( mild spoilers )

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I read Brain Camp, another graphic novel that Faith Erin Hicks drew but did not write. I wasn't that excited about this collaboration, though. It's a summer camp horror story with some reasonably creepy touches but not a lot going on in terms of its cast of characters.

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I read Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre. A few of them are straight-up fanfiction, a few more are so loosely "inspired" that I never would have guessed it in a million years, and most of them are somewhere in between. By far my favorite story in the collection is Audrey Niffenegger's, which is an AU fic ( Read more... )

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I read The Arm: Inide the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports, which is about pitchers and Tommy John surgery and how helpless we still are when it comes to which of the former are going to need the latter, as well as how difficult the process of recovery still is even as the surgery has become ( Read more... )

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I read Hamilton: The Revolution and pretty much the only way I could have enjoyed it more would be if it had even more annotations, because they're all exactly the sort of thing I like to read. Or alternately it could have had more pictures of cast members in their underwear. Either way.

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What I've been reading

Not that much, because it was a busy week.

I did read this anthology of villanelles, because I enjoy villanelles. Especially the whole section of villanelles about villanelles, like this one by John Hollander:
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I read Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere, a collection of P. G. Wodehouse's early school stories, including appearances previously unknown to me of Wrykyn's most famous former student, one Mike Jackson. Delightful as always.

What I'm reading now

I started this biography of Thomas Becket and it's really interesting so far.

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I read Lusty Little Women for the lulz because it was on the actual shelf at my library. I was fully expecting it to be terrible, so I can't say that it didn't meet my expectations. I mean, it's not like I wouldn't have liked it to be good! I'm all about porning up Louisa May Alcott books! It's just the execution was…lacking ( Read more... )