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May. 4th, 2016
Wednesday is not dancing round a maypole
May. 4th, 2016 06:13 pmWhat I read
D E Stevenson, Miss Buncle Married (1936) - Persephone edition, picked up in Oxfam, where somebody had apparently been doing a clearout of their Persephones. Pleasant.
Patricia Wentworth, Silence in Court (1945) - another freebie from Dean Street Press. A standalone (Wentworth is best known for her Miss Silver series - Miss Silver, as I recollect from reading one or two way back when, makes Miss Marple look like an ass-kicking ninja). It was really quite a compelling read - and I suspect that it's practically a default setting of courtroom drama that startling new evidence/surprise witness that turns everything on its head arrives at the 11th hour. Might try others by her.
James Tiptree jr, The Starry Rift (1986), because I have been feeling that I should reread some Tiptree. However, while I admire the work, I do see why - unlike other writers I was reading around the same period - I haven't been doing a lot of returning to it. Though I'm not sure that this - a fixup of three novellas - is necessarily entirely representative. The first two had me thinking that 'Love is the plan, the plan is death' could have been a title for more than one of Tiptree's stories.
I gave up very early in Jody Wallace, The Adventures of Mari Shu Book I: Earthbound Passion (2014), because it seemed to me somewhat hamfisted in its satire upon various genre tropes and not as hilarious as it thought it was. I think someone somewhere may have mentioned/recommended this - does it improve? should I give it another chance?
On the go
Pretty much everything that has been on the go these several weeks, and have just started KS Augustin, Assassin's Way (2014) which had been on my ereader for a while, and drifted to the top of the unread list because I was notified of an updated version. Was it a freebie/cheap offer? Did someone recommend it?
Up next
Possibly DE Stevenson, The Two Mrs Abbotts (1943), the sequel to Miss Buncle Married. Or I have succumbed and preordered the ebook of Angela Thirkell's Northbridge Rectory (1941) - VMC seem to be trickling these out at maddening intervals.