https://youtu.be/nYQMYuTJo9E?si=KGyws5tlOwoSLXru
The Women Writers Who Destroyed Their Own Work by Naomi Huffman: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/08/women-writers-destroy-work-mol...
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https://youtu.be/nYQMYuTJo9E?si=KGyws5tlOwoSLXru
The Women Writers Who Destroyed Their Own Work by Naomi Huffman: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/08/women-writers-destroy-work-mol...
pickA competent novel from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It‘s set in a flying club in the 1930s, and as a pilot myself, it‘s interesting to see how much has changed over in the world of flying, and at the same time how little has changed.
pickA country village mystery set amidst amateur theatricals, specifically Shakespeare‘s Measure for Measure.
The story doesn‘t not play (ha!) out as expected, compete with a shocking twist.
#1941 for #192025
Lazy, rainy Saturday. 🙂
pickAn enjoyable mystery superbly written. The characters are lively and well drawn - with many quirks and oddities! Put these characters into an equally complex setting where the smallest details create atmosphere and builds a strong, visual stage and it becomes a much more complex and engaging mystery than many. Written in 1932 it is evocative of its time.
pickNo Macdonald in this one, but still a very clever and enjoyable mystery from Lorac.
📬Recent bookmail.
Season of Snows has newlyweds torn apart by the war. While the husband is serving, the wife finds herself being pursued by the married partner at the firm where she works. Then her newly released POW husband returns. (Queue dramatic 🎶)
Cottage Sinister is one of the Quentin books that is co-written by a woman. And it sounds like a terrific read.
Doesn‘t this Belgian chocolate bar look like the perfect Middlebrow accompaniment?
This weekend I need to read six books to catch up to my reading goal. I estimate that finishing some of my ongoing reads and reading a couple of new-to-me graphic novels will take ~8 hours this weekend. This is the first up: I find Ethel Lina White a bit too dramatic, and more so in this one even than in The Wheel Spins, but she does produce a heck of an atmosphere.
Clearly word has gotten around that I don‘t like the almonds in the Chex mix and will hand them out to passers-by.
