I finished six books last month. Only four are pictured because one was borrowed and one I liked so well I foisted it on a friend right away. And I had to pause in reading two books, because there was not world enough and time. (Having deployed that, I figured I better look up from … Continue reading November 2024 books
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These Books Wanted Me to Buy Them
I will allow that this is a really weird cluster of new books.
September 2024 Books
Ha, ha, ha, past self. Weren't you cute, feeling smug at writing about August books before September ended, and thinking "I'm catching up!" That was the first heady flush of a writer parent with an empty nest; it didn't last long. (Because, reasons, which I will probably write about later, which involved writing a Paper … Continue reading September 2024 Books
August Reading
I used to keep track of my books on Goodreads, but it's both owned and undersupported by Amazon, which I find confounding, so I jumped ship for Storygraph, where I post under KJBoldon. The first book I finished in August was a mystery about a serial killer, The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen. The writing … Continue reading August Reading
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers, Part II, “The Legal Problem”
I'll save you some time and trouble. The gist, laid out in chapter XIV "Sharp Quillets of the Law," concerns a new-at-the-time law: if a person died without a will after 31 December 1925, the estate went to the next of kin with emphasis on the vagaries of the word "issue." In absence of "issue" … Continue reading Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers, Part II, “The Legal Problem”
March 2024 Books
I managed to finish six books in March; three were quick reads and three had more heft, both in page count and subject matter. Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg. I really savored this strange book. Limburg, an autistic writer and mother, structures her book as letters addressed to … Continue reading March 2024 Books
Clouds of Witness ch 4-7
Hello! Am I talking to myself? Is anyone reading this or listening? Does anyone care? No matter. I'm reading. And I care deeply. My experience of the Sayers mysteries, having read them all once, is that as a writer, Dorothy set herself a challenge, and then wrote the book to meet the challenge. In Whose … Continue reading Clouds of Witness ch 4-7
Whose Body? Chaps 10-13 (end)
First, some unfinished business from the last section. I was so pleased with myself for recognizing the foreshadowing for the next book in the series, Clouds of Witness, in the beginning of this sentence when Peter is telling his brother why having an amateur detective in the family might be useful: "You may come to … Continue reading Whose Body? Chaps 10-13 (end)
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