Wednesday Reading Meme
Jul. 17th, 2019 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
There’s been very little reading this week because I’ve been writing merrily away (I’ve hit 40,000 words in Honeytrap - more if you count the stuff that I’ve scooted over to the cut file), but I did read Stephanie Burgis’s “The Wrong Foot,” a short sweet Cinderella retelling.
Oh, and I also finished E. M. Delafield’s Gay Life, although I was so close to the end last Wednesday that this almost feels like it shouldn’t count. Denis has duly ruined his chances of future happiness, in such a way that suggests that life may keep handing him chances of future happiness which he will duly ruin as well, because he hasn’t learned or changed at all. Oh Denis! I believed in you.
What I’m Reading Now
Still working on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. No quotes this week - I’m reading the book at work and this week we’ve been busy, so there hasn't been much forward progress.
What I Plan to Read Next
Thwarted (for the moment) in my quest to read Hilary Tamar, I’ve lined up another mystery book to try: Mario Giordano’s Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions. So far, there are only two books in the series, but if I like it that will be a series to follow going forward.
On the longer series front, I’m contemplating Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, on the grounds that it has a solidly satisfying number of books (assuming I start reading again sooner rather than later) and I’ve heard good things about the TV series, so it would give me a new mystery series to watch, too.
There’s been very little reading this week because I’ve been writing merrily away (I’ve hit 40,000 words in Honeytrap - more if you count the stuff that I’ve scooted over to the cut file), but I did read Stephanie Burgis’s “The Wrong Foot,” a short sweet Cinderella retelling.
Oh, and I also finished E. M. Delafield’s Gay Life, although I was so close to the end last Wednesday that this almost feels like it shouldn’t count. Denis has duly ruined his chances of future happiness, in such a way that suggests that life may keep handing him chances of future happiness which he will duly ruin as well, because he hasn’t learned or changed at all. Oh Denis! I believed in you.
What I’m Reading Now
Still working on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. No quotes this week - I’m reading the book at work and this week we’ve been busy, so there hasn't been much forward progress.
What I Plan to Read Next
Thwarted (for the moment) in my quest to read Hilary Tamar, I’ve lined up another mystery book to try: Mario Giordano’s Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions. So far, there are only two books in the series, but if I like it that will be a series to follow going forward.
On the longer series front, I’m contemplating Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, on the grounds that it has a solidly satisfying number of books (assuming I start reading again sooner rather than later) and I’ve heard good things about the TV series, so it would give me a new mystery series to watch, too.
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Date: 2019-07-17 01:37 pm (UTC)The books have a very clear sense of place (never having been to Botswana, I can't say whether or not that place is clearly Botswana), and time passes for all of the characters as the books go on.
Because of the setting, both the time and the place, HIV is pretty constantly in the background mostly without being named. It's been a long time, but I'm pretty sure one of the main characters has a brother who dies of it. Her needing to care for him is a plot point.
I really like the series and always look forward to new volumes. You may like it, too.
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Date: 2019-07-22 12:48 am (UTC)Glad you've made such great progress on Honeytrap!
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