Academia
Susanna Gregory: A Bone of Contention
Matthew Bartholomew mystery #3, and by this time it’s fair to say that Gregory had found her groove. The plot still comes across as mighty complex, but it’s more tightly-constructed than in the first two books — also, I’ve learned (at last) not to get too caught up in individual incidents but, for all their […]
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Elizabeth Lemarchand: Death of an Old Girl
Lemarchand was a contemporary of Ellis Peters and Catherine Aird and, like them, a representative of the “Silver Age” of crime fiction (i.e., the post-WWII decades, roughly from the 1950s-60s to the end of the 1970s / beginning of the 1980s). Death of an Old Girl is the first book of Lemarchand’s Pollard and Toye […]
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Q1 / 2022 Reading Recap
Well, as it turned out 2022 began as 2021 had ended — all work and no play, albeit with the addition of a hospital detour to boot. (Nothing serious, just way more painful and, all told, protracted, than it had any right to be.) So I’m back to posting one summary post for the first […]
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Edmund Crispin: Love Lies Bleeding
Blurb: Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day, and English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen is called upon to present the prizes. However, the night before the big day, strange events take place that leave two members of staff dead. The headmaster turns to Professor Fen to investigate the murders. While disentangling the facts […]
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Anthony Berkeley: Murder in the Basement
This is middling Berkeley, not as problematic as The Wychford Poisoning Case or The Silk Stockings Murders, but OTOH also a fair way from the (mostly) enjoyable and intelligent writing that are The Poisoned Chocolates Case and Trial and Error. I rather like the setup — a body found by accident in a place where […]
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Deborah Crombie: Dreaming of the Bones
24 Festive Tasks: Door 4 – Japanese Culture Day, Book: Read a book that is set in Japan or featuring Japanese characters; or read a graphic novel or a book set in a school or academic setting. I’m claiming the audiobook I listened to yesterday and the day before, Deborah Crombie’s Dreaming of the […]
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Books Shipped Long Distance
24 Festive Tasks: Door 16 – St. Lucia’s Day, Task 4: The historic (3d century AD) St. Lucia was Italian; yet, like those of many other saints (including, e.g., St. Andrew and St. Nicholas), the most important celebrations of her holiday don’t occur in her place of origin but somewhere else in the world. List […]
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Michael Innes: Death at the President’s Lodging
24 Festive Tasks: Door 2 – Japanese Culture Day, Book: Read a graphic novel, a book set in a school or academic setting, or a book set in Japan or by a Japanese author. I swear I didn’t come up with this book task, but yey, what a great opportunity to squeeze in yet […]
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Halloween Bingo: Book Selections – UPDATED
Like virtually all of my book consumption this year, my Halloween Bingo books are more or less necessarily going to have to be primarily audiobooks. So I had a look at my Audible and CD collections what might fit the bill for my card, and here’s what I’ve come up with (mostly new-to-me books but […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Tracking Post — Blackout! (And bingos Nos. 12 and 13.)
Many thanks to Moonlight Reader and Obsidian Blue for hosting this game for the fourth year in a row, bigger and better than ever before! Witih today’s call, I’ve blacked out my card, in addition to collecting my final bingos (nos. 12 and 13). Somewhat to my surprise, after completing my books for my […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Tracking Post — Bingo No. 3 and Reading Blackout
* Triple Bingo Happy Dance * Well, that went by much faster than I had anticipated … Many thanks to Moonlight Reader and Obsidian Blue for hosting this game for the fourth year in a row, bigger and better than ever before! I’ll continue tracking my bingos of course — and since we now have […]
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Bingo call: 9/23/19 – Dark Academia
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder Dark Academia: Any mystery, suspense, supernatural or horror that takes place at a school – high school, college, boarding school, etc. Non-genre-specific square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1956523/bingo-call-9-23-19
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Halloween Bingo 2019: The First Week
So, on the plus side, despite serious RL interventions progress on my card is well under way, with four squares (including the centre / free / raven square) marked “called and read”; three of these in a row — plus reading for the remaining two squares of that row also in progress — and several […]
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James Hilton: Was it Murder?
My 2019 pre-bingo read and actually a fairly decent start into the game. And yes, this is “the” James Hilton of Goodbye Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon — actually, in a number of ways this book was probably Hilton’s dry run for Goodbye Mr. Chips. Hilton’s protagonist jokingly describes writing a novel a young […]
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Reading progress update: I’ve read 100%: Happy Halloween Bingo Everybody!
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1944849/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-100-happy-halloween-bingo-everybody
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Reading progress update: I’ve read 99.9%.
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1944800/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-99-9
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Halloween Bingo 2019: The Game Is Afoot!
MM has rung the starting bell … and we’re off! My pre-reading book is James Hilton’s Was It Murder? (aka Murder at School), which I’m reading of course for the “Dark Academia” square. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1942095/halloween-bingo-2019-the-game-is-afoot
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All 61 squares revealed: 1 through 18 (New Squares & Horror)
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader All of the new squares (and scares) have been revealed, and I got these posts put together over the past few days, so I’m ready to reveal ALL OF THE SQUARES! Buckle up, butter cup. A note on book lists: where we have already got a working book list, I’ve […]
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New space #5: Dark Academia
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Any mystery, suspense, supernatural or horror that takes place at a school – high school, college, boarding school, etc. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1930792/new-space-5
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The Language and Writing System of MS408 (Voynich) Explained
(2019). The Language and Writing System of MS408 (Voynich) Explained. Romance Studies. Ahead of Print. Source: The Language and Writing System of MS408 (Voynich) Explained
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