wednesday books
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landofnowhereMagic, G. K. Chesterton. Play readaloud. Really pleased to have found this for our group to read aloud together. It is very very Chestertonian, and generally delightful with excellent dialogue.
The Shortest Way to Hades, Sarah Caudwell. Reread -- this was the first of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that I read (having gotten it for 50 cents at the used bookstore), and I still think that Thus Was Adonis Murdered is a better place to start, but I liked this better on reread knowing the characters, and also watching all the clues slot into place as I knew the ending.
The Sirens Sang of Murder, Sarah Caudwell. This one I was reading for the first time, and it was fun like the others! I will read The Sibyl in Her Grave at some point, though I think not right away.
Too Like the Lightning/Trop Semblable à l'Eclair, Ada Palmer (tr. Michelle Charrier). On the home stretch -- I finished this in English, and am now catching up in French. In English this is my first time rereading since I read Perhaps the Stars, and it definitely gives a new perspective now that I know better the unnamed character in the penultimate chapter. Fun to get the bits about Rousseau and de Sade translated into French! (I'm probably going to go on to read the later books in English straight through and possibly in French later.)
The Shortest Way to Hades, Sarah Caudwell. Reread -- this was the first of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that I read (having gotten it for 50 cents at the used bookstore), and I still think that Thus Was Adonis Murdered is a better place to start, but I liked this better on reread knowing the characters, and also watching all the clues slot into place as I knew the ending.
The Sirens Sang of Murder, Sarah Caudwell. This one I was reading for the first time, and it was fun like the others! I will read The Sibyl in Her Grave at some point, though I think not right away.
Too Like the Lightning/Trop Semblable à l'Eclair, Ada Palmer (tr. Michelle Charrier). On the home stretch -- I finished this in English, and am now catching up in French. In English this is my first time rereading since I read Perhaps the Stars, and it definitely gives a new perspective now that I know better the unnamed character in the penultimate chapter. Fun to get the bits about Rousseau and de Sade translated into French! (I'm probably going to go on to read the later books in English straight through and possibly in French later.)
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