Read this week
Or rather, read in the 3 weeks since my operation:
The Thursday Next books are brilliant, I serious cannot recommend them enough, This is the fourth in the series, I have three more to go. Any novel where one character can't understand another because they're talking in courier bold rather than times new roman has got to be a winner.
Thursday Next was followed by a bit of a Jane Austen-esque run:
I read the Austen biography when it first came out, so it was nice to read again and imagine myself in Jane Austen's world. The middle book is one of a series of regency-set mysteries featuring a lady named Dido Kent. Dido and her world obviously owe a lot to Jane Austen, but she's an enjoyable character and the books are well written and satisfy my craving for regency romance and mystery. After that, my friend bought me "Jane and the unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor", part of a series of books where Jane Austen herself is the detective! It's like RPF, only 200 years late!
Keeping up with my love of historical mysteries, I found these on amazon and after a bit of a shaky issue with the author's style of writing I thoroughly enjoyed them:
These are set in the Victorian era, and the heroine is a pharmacist's daughter turned private detective! They're not perfect, but they each had some very intricate and multi-layered mysteries at the heart of them. I particularly enjoyed the last one, which centres around the Victorian horror of premature burial.
At the moment I'm reading Dissolution, by CJ Sansom, which is a mystery set during the dissolution of the monasteries. I blame Henry VIII for everything. Dastardly Tudors! After that, I have the Sebastian St Cyr series to start, which is something I found on amazon and is another series of regency set mysteries. So many books, so little time. Oh wait, I do have time, it's another 3 weeks before I even have to consider if I'm well enough to go back to work! Heeeee!
So, what is everyone else reading at the moment? Any recommendations?
The Thursday Next books are brilliant, I serious cannot recommend them enough, This is the fourth in the series, I have three more to go. Any novel where one character can't understand another because they're talking in courier bold rather than times new roman has got to be a winner.
Thursday Next was followed by a bit of a Jane Austen-esque run:
I read the Austen biography when it first came out, so it was nice to read again and imagine myself in Jane Austen's world. The middle book is one of a series of regency-set mysteries featuring a lady named Dido Kent. Dido and her world obviously owe a lot to Jane Austen, but she's an enjoyable character and the books are well written and satisfy my craving for regency romance and mystery. After that, my friend bought me "Jane and the unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor", part of a series of books where Jane Austen herself is the detective! It's like RPF, only 200 years late!
Keeping up with my love of historical mysteries, I found these on amazon and after a bit of a shaky issue with the author's style of writing I thoroughly enjoyed them:
These are set in the Victorian era, and the heroine is a pharmacist's daughter turned private detective! They're not perfect, but they each had some very intricate and multi-layered mysteries at the heart of them. I particularly enjoyed the last one, which centres around the Victorian horror of premature burial.
At the moment I'm reading Dissolution, by CJ Sansom, which is a mystery set during the dissolution of the monasteries. I blame Henry VIII for everything. Dastardly Tudors! After that, I have the Sebastian St Cyr series to start, which is something I found on amazon and is another series of regency set mysteries. So many books, so little time. Oh wait, I do have time, it's another 3 weeks before I even have to consider if I'm well enough to go back to work! Heeeee!
So, what is everyone else reading at the moment? Any recommendations?