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No Rest for the Murder Monday
Aug. 1st, 2016 01:41 pmArchived from Livejournal
What I've Finished Reading
I keep meaning to say something about The Automatic Detective, the robot detective story by A. Lee Martinez. ( it was ok ) Definitely worth a try if you like robots and detectives, or A. Lee Martinez.
What I'm Reading Now
Does Men at Arms count? I'm going to say it does. Night Watch Captain Samuel Vimes is detective to the bone, even if he inhabits a world where detectives haven't been invented yet. ( A new day for the Night Watch! )
Also reading: N or M? by Agatha Christie:
Tommy and Tuppence are all grown up with grown children of their own, and naturally now that there's another war on they want to go out and get tied up by enemy agents and saboteurs like before! It isn't fair that no one wants middle-aged people for intelligence work; they have loads of experience blundering into people's secret meetings and finding coded messages stuck to the bottom of their shoes and all that, and besides, they're adorable; doesn't that count for anything these days? Clearly it should!
It's Christie espionage, which is a poor limping second to Christie murder, and sprinkled with the same kind of awkward political lecturing as The Secret Adversary, but on the other hand, 1) Tommy and Tuppence make everything better, and 2) even awkward espionage Christie is still a joy to read, like a cold glass of lemonade on a hot day.
Tommy has finally managed to score a TOP SECRET assignment doing observation at a hotel, on the obviously appalling condition that he go alone and keep the nature of his work a secret from Tuppence. He agrees, and goes to the hotel in disguise, where he finds Tuppence waiting for him in the sitting room. She's arrived ahead of him, having already discovered the location and formulated her own disguise, because of course she has. <3
What I Plan to Read Next
I'm not sure! haven't gotten much further in The Keeper of Lost Causes and might shelve it for the rest of the week and grab something else for my last out-of-town trip of the summer - I haven't decided yet. Something, probably. If The Monkey's Mask gets here by Wednesday then I will have hardboiled blank verse to keep me company, but it looks like it might not.
What I've Finished Reading
I keep meaning to say something about The Automatic Detective, the robot detective story by A. Lee Martinez. ( it was ok ) Definitely worth a try if you like robots and detectives, or A. Lee Martinez.
What I'm Reading Now
Does Men at Arms count? I'm going to say it does. Night Watch Captain Samuel Vimes is detective to the bone, even if he inhabits a world where detectives haven't been invented yet. ( A new day for the Night Watch! )
Also reading: N or M? by Agatha Christie:
"It's bad enough having a war," said Tuppence, "but not being allowed to do anything in it just puts the lid on."
Tommy and Tuppence are all grown up with grown children of their own, and naturally now that there's another war on they want to go out and get tied up by enemy agents and saboteurs like before! It isn't fair that no one wants middle-aged people for intelligence work; they have loads of experience blundering into people's secret meetings and finding coded messages stuck to the bottom of their shoes and all that, and besides, they're adorable; doesn't that count for anything these days? Clearly it should!
It's Christie espionage, which is a poor limping second to Christie murder, and sprinkled with the same kind of awkward political lecturing as The Secret Adversary, but on the other hand, 1) Tommy and Tuppence make everything better, and 2) even awkward espionage Christie is still a joy to read, like a cold glass of lemonade on a hot day.
Tommy has finally managed to score a TOP SECRET assignment doing observation at a hotel, on the obviously appalling condition that he go alone and keep the nature of his work a secret from Tuppence. He agrees, and goes to the hotel in disguise, where he finds Tuppence waiting for him in the sitting room. She's arrived ahead of him, having already discovered the location and formulated her own disguise, because of course she has. <3
What I Plan to Read Next
I'm not sure! haven't gotten much further in The Keeper of Lost Causes and might shelve it for the rest of the week and grab something else for my last out-of-town trip of the summer - I haven't decided yet. Something, probably. If The Monkey's Mask gets here by Wednesday then I will have hardboiled blank verse to keep me company, but it looks like it might not.
