What I'm Reading
Jun. 22nd, 2022 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stonepicnicking_okapiI haven't found any new audiobooks I enjoy, so I'm off those for a while.
My sister sent me the first two Inspector Rebus novels (by Ian Rankin) and I am surprised to say I like them! I don't know why, maybe at another point in my life, I wouldn't be so keen, but they seem to be just enough grit and gloom for me these days. For the unfamiliar, he is Scottish and divorced and on a mental health scale from Tom Barnaby (good and stable) to Wallander (an Ikean Eeyore) , closer to the latter.
Unfortunately, I am keen to read them in order (suspecting as we go on, I'll be less enthusiastic) and neither my library nor the bookstore have Tooth and Nail or Strip Jack, so at some point I will have to order them. My library starts to carry the series at book 5.
My sister also sent me An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, which was okay enough to read all the way through but not exciting enough to want to read another Cordelia Grey. I guess some bits too early but I do like the 'my partner died, now I'm running the biz' trope in private detective fiction.
My sister also sent me Elizabeth George's Believing the Lie which is an Inspector Lynley mystery. I've never watched that TV show, but the book is 600 pages! Even so, it's proving a fairly quick read. My friendsmallhobbit has a competency kink and when Lynley is seen having an affair with his superior, my Hobbit flag went up. Not good, sir. I won't keep it after I finish it, but I'll probably finish it.
I've stalled on the book bingo even though I only have 4 squares left. I do have a copy of The Source of Self-regard by Toni Morrison which is a collection of non-fiction essays and speeches but I haven't opened it yet. It is one of those thing when you are actually looking for a book with a place in the title, you can't find one.
My sister sent me the first two Inspector Rebus novels (by Ian Rankin) and I am surprised to say I like them! I don't know why, maybe at another point in my life, I wouldn't be so keen, but they seem to be just enough grit and gloom for me these days. For the unfamiliar, he is Scottish and divorced and on a mental health scale from Tom Barnaby (good and stable) to Wallander (an Ikean Eeyore) , closer to the latter.
Unfortunately, I am keen to read them in order (suspecting as we go on, I'll be less enthusiastic) and neither my library nor the bookstore have Tooth and Nail or Strip Jack, so at some point I will have to order them. My library starts to carry the series at book 5.
My sister also sent me An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, which was okay enough to read all the way through but not exciting enough to want to read another Cordelia Grey. I guess some bits too early but I do like the 'my partner died, now I'm running the biz' trope in private detective fiction.
My sister also sent me Elizabeth George's Believing the Lie which is an Inspector Lynley mystery. I've never watched that TV show, but the book is 600 pages! Even so, it's proving a fairly quick read. My friend
smallhobbit has a competency kink and when Lynley is seen having an affair with his superior, my Hobbit flag went up. Not good, sir. I won't keep it after I finish it, but I'll probably finish it. I've stalled on the book bingo even though I only have 4 squares left. I do have a copy of The Source of Self-regard by Toni Morrison which is a collection of non-fiction essays and speeches but I haven't opened it yet. It is one of those thing when you are actually looking for a book with a place in the title, you can't find one.
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Date: 2022-06-22 06:43 pm (UTC)Don't forget with book bingo you can use two substitutions (there's a list) plus two additional free squares, so you can complete it that way. What about Murder in Mesopotomania?
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Date: 2022-06-22 06:58 pm (UTC)That's a good one. I wasn't going to include re-reads for the bingo but (on second thought) maybe adding one of the All of Agatha would be appropriate since it is such a key part of my overall reading. I am waiting on Poirot's Christmas. I thought Christmas in July would be a nice theme.
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Date: 2022-06-24 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
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