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I wasn't feeling well for several days, and it was a kind of not-well that meant I was more comfortable in my recliner than in a desk or dining room chair, so I spent a lot of time reading. [No medical advice please: I'm feeling quite a bit better, and also have an appointment with my doctor on Thursday.]
Books I've finished since my last post:
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson: This is a mystery/science fiction novel, and the viewpoint character works as a translator for an extraterrestrial cultural attache in Manhattan. ( Read more... )
The Dawn of Everything: a new history of humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The authors have taken on a very large project, which they realize, having started with the question "what was the origin of inequality?" and then decided that it was the wrong question, in two or three different directions.
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Dead Man's Folly, by Agatha Christie ( mild spoiler )
A Case of Murder in Mayfair, by Clara Benson, is a light (though neither funny nor "cozy") mystery set in 1920s London. It's part of a loose series, but I don't think it matters whether you read them in order. (So far, I've read volumes 1, 3, and 2, in that order.)
All that Remains, by Sue Black ( Read more... )
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern: a weirdly multilayered fantasy story about fiction and fictional characters interacting with real people, and influencing them, often via weird doors into and out of the secondary world (?) of the Starless Sea. It's very good, and I was well into it before I noticed that the book is told in the historical present, with only a few "here is a story being told within the story" sections in past tense.
A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian: an f/f romance novella, set in the late 19th century. One woman is a "companion" to a rich woman who took her in after her brute of a father threw her out, and who is trying to figure out what she's doing and what her patron wants her to do. The other is the patron's maid, who has managed to move from small-scale crime to a legal job that pays better as well as being safer. "Together, they commit crimes."
Books I've finished since my last post:
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson: This is a mystery/science fiction novel, and the viewpoint character works as a translator for an extraterrestrial cultural attache in Manhattan. ( Read more... )
The Dawn of Everything: a new history of humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The authors have taken on a very large project, which they realize, having started with the question "what was the origin of inequality?" and then decided that it was the wrong question, in two or three different directions.
( Read more... )
Dead Man's Folly, by Agatha Christie ( mild spoiler )
A Case of Murder in Mayfair, by Clara Benson, is a light (though neither funny nor "cozy") mystery set in 1920s London. It's part of a loose series, but I don't think it matters whether you read them in order. (So far, I've read volumes 1, 3, and 2, in that order.)
All that Remains, by Sue Black ( Read more... )
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern: a weirdly multilayered fantasy story about fiction and fictional characters interacting with real people, and influencing them, often via weird doors into and out of the secondary world (?) of the Starless Sea. It's very good, and I was well into it before I noticed that the book is told in the historical present, with only a few "here is a story being told within the story" sections in past tense.
A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian: an f/f romance novella, set in the late 19th century. One woman is a "companion" to a rich woman who took her in after her brute of a father threw her out, and who is trying to figure out what she's doing and what her patron wants her to do. The other is the patron's maid, who has managed to move from small-scale crime to a legal job that pays better as well as being safer. "Together, they commit crimes."