another Wednesday reading post

[redbird]

Wednesday reading isn't even going to pretend to write reviews. Just, here are some books I finished reading (or rereading) since the last time I made one of these posts.

To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers (novella length, but published separately, not connected to her Wayfarers books.

Destination Unknown, by Agatha Christie

Homicide Trinity; Gambit; Family Affair; A Right to Die; Three Witnesses; and Three Doors to Death, by Rex Stout. That's three novels, and three books of three novellas each, mostly rereads. I'm fairly sure I'd remember if I'd read Family Affair before, though it's also true that a novel involving Watergate might not have struck me as strongly before the Trump administration.

Georgette Heyer, The Incomplete Clue, a mystery novel, with bits of romance lurking around the edges. One of the (emotionally) easy books someone recommended on Discord. I might read more of her mysteries, but this does not incline me toward the Regency romances.

The Last Resort, by Alison Lurie

Life in a Medieval City, by Frances Giles (nonfiction, what it says on the tin, and very well done)

Hench, by Natalie Zina Walschots

Comments

[ritaxis]

I read the Becky Chambers! I liked it, but I felt like there was more somewhere that didn't make it into the story.

[bibliofile]

Of these, I read and enjoyed Hench. I liked both the premise (look at all the costs of using superpowered people to fight crime) and the execution.

[pinesandmaples]

Totally out of the loop (so maybe you have read this one!), but I just finished A Will To Kill by R.V. Raman. It's a tidy little mystery novel set in India with a quiet, clever career PI at the center. I would certainly read more books in the series.