What I've Been Reading Wednesday
8 Nov 2017 01:10 pmWhat I've Finished Reading
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, which I continued to enjoy. It's very good, but very light (it doesn't feel as if it ought to be 400 pages in both the good and less good way), but I'd certainly be keen to read more, and I did like it a lot. (Thanks for the poke in the right direction,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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I then read The Affair of the Mutilated Mink by James Anderson, a loving Golden Age murder pastiche down to the last detail, with some overt winks to the genre. One of the characters reports having had a conversation with Lord Wimsey over their last murder, and when they have to send for Scotland Yard, they hope in vain for Roderick Alleyn or John Appleby. Naturally, because copyright is a thing, they get St Clair Allgood, who is not all his reputation cracked up to be, and, as Inspector Wilkins notes, "He's not in the same class as Mr Appleby or Mr Alleyn." My favourite bit though was when Wilkins complains that, having gone into the police in the country, he never expected to plagued by such a crime wave among the upper classes, leading to inconvenient promotions. I'll have to look out for the other two, as it was good fun. I'm only surprised nobody ran into Bertie Wooster or someone as well, because the Earl is clearly a nod to Blandings, rather than the Golden Age of Crime.
I finished off Desolation Island, which got pretty exciting before the end, too. I also picked up Valley of the Shadow. part of a different Carola Dunn series, these more recent, and set in 1960s/70s Cornwall, which was also easy and enjoyable.
Also [redacted] for Yuletide purposes.
What I'm Reading Now
I am now not-reading the next Aubrey-Maturin (until I am reading it), The Fortune of War and Tracing Your London Ancestors by Jonathan Oates, a useful overview for a person with multiple London ancestors.
Plus, some more [redacted] for Yuletide.
What I'm Reading Next
I picked up another of the Carola Dunn Cornwall mysteries series, Manna From Hades, so most likely that, in between not-reading Aubrey-Maturin. Maybe at some point, I'll read the next Gothic horror installment in the collection as well.
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, which I continued to enjoy. It's very good, but very light (it doesn't feel as if it ought to be 400 pages in both the good and less good way), but I'd certainly be keen to read more, and I did like it a lot. (Thanks for the poke in the right direction,
aralias!)I then read The Affair of the Mutilated Mink by James Anderson, a loving Golden Age murder pastiche down to the last detail, with some overt winks to the genre. One of the characters reports having had a conversation with Lord Wimsey over their last murder, and when they have to send for Scotland Yard, they hope in vain for Roderick Alleyn or John Appleby. Naturally, because copyright is a thing, they get St Clair Allgood, who is not all his reputation cracked up to be, and, as Inspector Wilkins notes, "He's not in the same class as Mr Appleby or Mr Alleyn." My favourite bit though was when Wilkins complains that, having gone into the police in the country, he never expected to plagued by such a crime wave among the upper classes, leading to inconvenient promotions. I'll have to look out for the other two, as it was good fun. I'm only surprised nobody ran into Bertie Wooster or someone as well, because the Earl is clearly a nod to Blandings, rather than the Golden Age of Crime.
I finished off Desolation Island, which got pretty exciting before the end, too. I also picked up Valley of the Shadow. part of a different Carola Dunn series, these more recent, and set in 1960s/70s Cornwall, which was also easy and enjoyable.
Also [redacted] for Yuletide purposes.
What I'm Reading Now
I am now not-reading the next Aubrey-Maturin (until I am reading it), The Fortune of War and Tracing Your London Ancestors by Jonathan Oates, a useful overview for a person with multiple London ancestors.
Plus, some more [redacted] for Yuletide.
What I'm Reading Next
I picked up another of the Carola Dunn Cornwall mysteries series, Manna From Hades, so most likely that, in between not-reading Aubrey-Maturin. Maybe at some point, I'll read the next Gothic horror installment in the collection as well.