What I'm Reading

I finished Crimson Snow, Winter Mysteries which is from the British Library Crime Classics and enjoyed them. There was a Campion, an Ironsides, a Holmes pastiche, an insurance man as detective (MacDonald Hastings' Mr. Cork, which I wouldn't mind reading more of), and only one that I'd read before ("The Carol Singers" by Josephine Bell, which is a horribly depressing story of an lonely old lady who gets murdered on Christmas).

I highly recommend A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (illustrated by Chris Raschka). It's as if a Great Poet re-wrote part of "A Christmas Story." I read it last year but this year I read it aloud to my boys and oh, what a difference! It is a slog reading it but if you read it aloud, it's absolutely beautiful. Two lines:

All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street...

And the last line which gives me shivers:

I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept.

Audiobooks: I finished Fog of Doubt by Christianna Brand. I may have to go back and read the book or listen again because I think I missed some nuance in the middle, but I liked the last line sort of bringing you back to the clue at the very beginning. She has a way of making the none of the characters especially likable and Inspector Cockrill is there to kind of move things along but not much of a character himself. Not a bad thing to listen to while cooking or cleaning or laundry, which is usually when I listen to things.

Reference: A Season of Kink

I signed up for seasonofkink, so I have until February 14 to produce at least 1000 words using these three assigned kinks:

1. Voyeurism
2. Held down
3. Body fetish

And they define body fetish as: A person can kink on a wide variety of body types (slim, curvy, fat, short, tall, etc) or body parts (like thighs, butts, breasts, lips, hands, genitals, hair, feet, etc). Amputation fetish is also covered by this square.

Prompts

Since I never see fandoms to which I belong in these kind of things, I posted a prompt in Middle Aged Ships for BBC Sherlock Mycroft/Lestrade [brollies when it isn't raining or handcuffs when there's no crime]

and

for BBC Sherlock/John in 3 Sentence Comment Ficathon [the precaution of a good coat and a short friend]. There are 300+ prompts so mine's on page 6.