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Happy birthday, afuna and katharine_b!

Wednesday had a weird spam phonecall on the landline

What I read

Slightly Foxed #85: 'A Matter of Compression'.

Margaret Drabble, The Pure Gold Baby (2013), not sure I'm quite so keen on this as I was on first reading?

Anthony Powell, A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time, Vol 2) (1952) for the discussion group, at which I nobly refrained from perorating at the length I could have done over various matters within the purlieu of my expertise.

CJ Wray, The Excitements (2024), a Kobo deal, blurb a bit misleading, moderately entertaining but if it is the start of a series, don't think I shall be pursuing.

Re-read of KJ Charles, The Duke at Hazard, because I discovered on Saturday night that although I had lately downloaded several books to my ereader my Device Was Not Recognised As Authorised and would not open them, so I fell back on this. Is this one particularly Heyerish??? (or has various Heyer-type elements.)

On the go

Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You (2023) - woman returns to the school where in her sad youthful days another pupil was murdered, and there are still True Crime delvings as to whether the alleged killer was in fact fitted up. Still, as Forestfan, trying to get over character named Thalia Keith (nothing like Tim).

Up next

The latest, and alas the last, Scribbler, and a new Literary Review.