Wednesday has (it looks like) got partner's internet working again*

What I read

Finished Eve's Hollywood, pretty good even if not quite up to Slow Days, Fast Company.

Finished Reader's Liberation, some of which was great and some of which struck me as 'pieces the author wanted to get out somewhere and here was as good as anywhere' i.e. it's a collection of essays themed around reading/writing.

I had been havering over Ben Aaronovitch Stone and Sky (2025) as on recent showings I am not really up for paying hardback or even trade paperback prices for the ebooks - this was a Kobo deal at the weekend, and I feel my judgement on this was vindicated, because phoning it in and spinning it out....

On the go

Still dipping into Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1960–1967.

Have gone back to Lanny Budd and commenced upon One Clear Call (#9) (1948). Just possibly a certain amount of making occasions for getting up to speed with All The Backstory, but still, I was glad to get back to this which I had just started when I found Stone and Sky in the bargain bin.

Up next

I imagine Lanny is going to keep me occupied for a while, but I have The Scribbler Annual and the latest Literary Review. Also am at stage in review writing where I can contemplate moving on to the next volume I am committed to doing.

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*After ordering what turned out to be the wrong type of Powerline from Argos, and re-ordering the same model as we had previously been using (which Argos didn't have) from Amazon (hiss boo, but not really much in the way of alternatives), and then the actual setup was much less of a strain than I'd anticipated.