What I'm Reading
Mar. 19th, 2019 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stonepicnicking_okapiI loved The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne. It reads like Holmes/Watson fanfic. It does not take itself too seriously, which is lovely, and the two protagonists (who called each other Holmes and Watson) are loveable and shippable (I mean, they bed-share in a country inn!). And there are so many fun tongue-in-cheek lines for people (like me) who love Golden Age of Crime Writing mysteries about policemen loving to drag ponds and never expecting a shot in an English country house (which, of course, I totally expect!). And it's dedicated to the author's father who 'like all really nice people' has a 'weakness for detective stories,' which is nice. So I wrote a little triple drabble about Antony/Bill.
I've also been reading (and listening to) Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon, and wrote two one-shots. In French Etchings, Asta the Schnauzer makes a keen discovery, and in One Can Never Tell, I explore more my fascination with Barker from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Retired Colourman." I have cast Hammett's Sam Spade as Barker and was trying my hand at some hard-boiled detective/noir 'verse.
I tried to listen to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil de Grasse Tyson. I liked listening to an author read his own work, and I liked listening to an African American voice, but I couldn't get past the first thirty minutes. I took astronomy in undergraduate to fulfill my science requirement because I didn't want to be in any kind of laboratory, but that was light years ago and it might be for 'people in a hurry' but it isn't for the simple-minded on a treadmill.
I've also been reading (and listening to) Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon, and wrote two one-shots. In French Etchings, Asta the Schnauzer makes a keen discovery, and in One Can Never Tell, I explore more my fascination with Barker from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Retired Colourman." I have cast Hammett's Sam Spade as Barker and was trying my hand at some hard-boiled detective/noir 'verse.
I tried to listen to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil de Grasse Tyson. I liked listening to an author read his own work, and I liked listening to an African American voice, but I couldn't get past the first thirty minutes. I took astronomy in undergraduate to fulfill my science requirement because I didn't want to be in any kind of laboratory, but that was light years ago and it might be for 'people in a hurry' but it isn't for the simple-minded on a treadmill.