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Brief this time, to get something down and posted:
Recently read:
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice. It is very good; I liked the narrator AI and her quest, and I want to see more about the whole Radchaai society (though I keep stumbling on how to pronounce the names that have three or four a's and i's in a row). I have borrowed Ancillary Sword from the library.
Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body. Another low-energy reread at points where I couldn't sleep, of a collection of short mysteries. The stories were a weird level of familiar of "I know this" without always remembering how they would come out.
Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington. A murder is, improbably, witnessed; much of the plot of this book involves convincing authorities that there was a crime, by finding the body. The solution to the mystery depends significantly on identifying the victim. There's significant characterization of members of a dysfunctional family (though it's too early for that term to be used), messed up in part by the deliberately trouble-making will of their father/grandfather. Miss Marple doesn't do as much of the innocent, fuddled old lady act as in some of the stories about her. I think I will take a bit of a break before looking for another, because I'm spotting plot similarities.
Current reading:
Julie Smith, Death before Facebook. A mystery set in New Orleans; the "before" seems to be temporal rather than in a "death before dishonor" sense. The time is such that the detective narrator needs someone to explain online bulletin boards. I'm reading this slowly, in odd moments when carrying my kindle; I hope this isn't going to mean I lose the thread of the story.
Recently read:
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice. It is very good; I liked the narrator AI and her quest, and I want to see more about the whole Radchaai society (though I keep stumbling on how to pronounce the names that have three or four a's and i's in a row). I have borrowed Ancillary Sword from the library.
Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body. Another low-energy reread at points where I couldn't sleep, of a collection of short mysteries. The stories were a weird level of familiar of "I know this" without always remembering how they would come out.
Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington. A murder is, improbably, witnessed; much of the plot of this book involves convincing authorities that there was a crime, by finding the body. The solution to the mystery depends significantly on identifying the victim. There's significant characterization of members of a dysfunctional family (though it's too early for that term to be used), messed up in part by the deliberately trouble-making will of their father/grandfather. Miss Marple doesn't do as much of the innocent, fuddled old lady act as in some of the stories about her. I think I will take a bit of a break before looking for another, because I'm spotting plot similarities.
Current reading:
Julie Smith, Death before Facebook. A mystery set in New Orleans; the "before" seems to be temporal rather than in a "death before dishonor" sense. The time is such that the detective narrator needs someone to explain online bulletin boards. I'm reading this slowly, in odd moments when carrying my kindle; I hope this isn't going to mean I lose the thread of the story.