Wednesday Reading Meme
Jan. 17th, 2018 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
I don’t usually count rereads, but then I don’t usually reread books straight through - just open them up and dip in wherever the book happens to fall open. But it’s been so long since I read Ngaio Marsh’s Artists in Crime that I did reread the whole thing: Alleyn takes a few books to gather character, but Troy just steps onto the page fully formed in all her prickly glory.
Their courtship is so very thirties. They meet! Troy is rude to him! (She wanted time alone to paint and he interrupted, quite without meaning to.) Of course that can mean nothing but love in their future.
I also dug in and finished The Summer Before the War. In theory the book sounded like something I ought to really like, but in practice it never caught fire for me. Oh well. Not every book does, I guess!
What I’m Reading Now
I’ve been rereading Ngaio Marsh’s Clutch of Constables, another Troy-centric mystery. Troy spontaneously takes a riverboat cruise and ends up embroiled in a murder investigation! As one does when one marries a detective.
I’ve also started Frances Hardinge’s A Skinful of Shadows, but only just started it so I don’t have much to say about it yet.
What I Plan to Read Next
The library FINALLY has The Black Arrow for me! (I broke and put a hold on one of the copies that is not 100 years old. I WANTED TO SEE THOSE ILLUSTRATIONS DAMMIT. Oh well.)
I don’t usually count rereads, but then I don’t usually reread books straight through - just open them up and dip in wherever the book happens to fall open. But it’s been so long since I read Ngaio Marsh’s Artists in Crime that I did reread the whole thing: Alleyn takes a few books to gather character, but Troy just steps onto the page fully formed in all her prickly glory.
Their courtship is so very thirties. They meet! Troy is rude to him! (She wanted time alone to paint and he interrupted, quite without meaning to.) Of course that can mean nothing but love in their future.
I also dug in and finished The Summer Before the War. In theory the book sounded like something I ought to really like, but in practice it never caught fire for me. Oh well. Not every book does, I guess!
What I’m Reading Now
I’ve been rereading Ngaio Marsh’s Clutch of Constables, another Troy-centric mystery. Troy spontaneously takes a riverboat cruise and ends up embroiled in a murder investigation! As one does when one marries a detective.
I’ve also started Frances Hardinge’s A Skinful of Shadows, but only just started it so I don’t have much to say about it yet.
What I Plan to Read Next
The library FINALLY has The Black Arrow for me! (I broke and put a hold on one of the copies that is not 100 years old. I WANTED TO SEE THOSE ILLUSTRATIONS DAMMIT. Oh well.)
