Recent Reading
Nov. 14th, 2021 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arkessianSherwood Smith The Phoenix Feather 1. Lovely, and I have number 2 in the stack.
I then diverted for comfort reading to Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series. I read the first few of these when they came out (a long time before I had an e-reader) and enjoyed them, but was constrained by reasons of shelf space, and stopped after the first 4. Shelf space is no longer a constraint, so I am reading my way though the series again. However, I'm not sure it holds up to serial binge reading. I need to interleave it with other stuff, so that my eyebrows don't climb into my scalp with the personas that turn up -- real and fictional (Sabine Baring-Gould, Kim, Dashiel Hammett, and I know not who else.) I suppose if I'm willing to entertain Sherlock Holmes (so to speak), other personas shouldn't perturb, but it does feel a little like ticking off a contemporary bingo sheet.
Next up? Possibly Sherwood Smith The Phoenix Feather 2. Or possibly (courtesy of a review by @Mrissa) A.K. Larkwood the Unspoken Name.
I then diverted for comfort reading to Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series. I read the first few of these when they came out (a long time before I had an e-reader) and enjoyed them, but was constrained by reasons of shelf space, and stopped after the first 4. Shelf space is no longer a constraint, so I am reading my way though the series again. However, I'm not sure it holds up to serial binge reading. I need to interleave it with other stuff, so that my eyebrows don't climb into my scalp with the personas that turn up -- real and fictional (Sabine Baring-Gould, Kim, Dashiel Hammett, and I know not who else.) I suppose if I'm willing to entertain Sherlock Holmes (so to speak), other personas shouldn't perturb, but it does feel a little like ticking off a contemporary bingo sheet.
Next up? Possibly Sherwood Smith The Phoenix Feather 2. Or possibly (courtesy of a review by @Mrissa) A.K. Larkwood the Unspoken Name.
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Date: 2021-11-14 05:13 pm (UTC)I can't help comparing the way she brings in real people of the day with the way Barbara Hambly does in the Benjamin January mysteries, in which for a start they are must better integrated into the narrative, rather than decorative period detail (which was my nitpick with the Bright Young Things in a recent outing).
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Date: 2021-11-14 05:21 pm (UTC)I have not yet revisited Barbara Hambly (abandoned again for lack of shelf space.) It could be an interesting comparison.