Ruth Rendell
2020: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
We’re still a month away from the end of the year, but my reading will probably consist mainly of Christmas books in December, and I hope and pray that life won’t come up and throw anything else at me in the final month of the year, either. So I might as well post my “Year […]
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Ruth Rendell: A Judgement in Stone – Epitaph
24 Festive Tasks: Door 15 – Día de los Muertos, Task 1: Create an epitaph for the worst book you read in 2020. Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone: From my “DNF” post: “”Illiterate” (read: dyslexic) working class home help kills her well-meaning but utterly clueless upper class employers. The end. (And because it’s […]
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Ruth Rendell: A Judgement in Stone
DNF @ 30% (approx) “Illiterate” (read: dyslexic) working class home help kills her well-meaning but utterly clueless upper class employers. The end. (And because it’s an inverted mystery, we know literally from the first sentence that this is going to happen.) Aaaannnd … I’m out. I’m not merely bored, though. Chiefly, I’m furious at […]
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BL-opoly: Scottie Dog / Square 32: Please pick my next book!
Sofi Oksanen: Fegefeuer (The Purge) Cary Elwes et al.: As You Wish Jo Nesbø: Macbeth Barbara Vine: Asta’s Book Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1931464/bl-opoly-scottie-dog-square-32-please-pick-my-next-book
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Barbara Vine: The Brimstone Wedding
24 Festive Tasks: Door 8 – Penance Day, Book: Read any book concerning a man / woman of the cloth, a book about a character hiding a guilty secret or searching for absolution. Tedious, predictable, and boring beyond belief. I’d never have thought I’d actually ever say this about a book by Barbara Vine (Ruth […]
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Ruth Rendell: The Babes in the Wood & Not in the Flesh
For the “In the Dark, Dark Woods” square, I decided on a Ruth Rendell double dip. The Babes in the Wood and Not […]
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Halloween Bingo 2017: Update 2
My Square Markers and “Virgin” Bingo Card: “Virgin” card posted for ease of tracking and comparison, as called and read squares will, bit by bit, vanish behind my markers and everybody’s cards are different. Black Kitty: Read but not called Black Vignette: Called but not read Black Kitty in Black Vignette: Read and Called […]
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Ruth Rendell: No Man’s Nightingale
Wexford’s Retirement Agatha Christie famously once commented that, had she foreseen the lasting popularity of Hercule Poirot, she would not have made him a man already in mid-life in the book marking his first appearance – and the beginning of Christie’s own literary career –, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). The awkwardness of that […]
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