Reading Wednesday :｡･:*:･ﾟ'✿

Finished reading: Unnatural Causes by P D James. I picked this novel up when I was at a used bookstore in Victoria - specifically Chronicles of Crime, which specializes in (you guessed it) secondhand crime novels. Fabulously awesome bookstore, yo. Anyway, this is the first novel by James that I have read. While I'm not crazy about the protagonist, I think I might give the author another go, because - as I mentioned in a previous entry - I really, really like the author's writing style. There's something about the way she describes setting that clicks really well with me; I like it a lot. It's vivid without being too much, and it... takes its time, if you know what I mean.

I wasn't crazy about the way the investigation unfolded, nor the revelation of who the killer was and how they went about doing it. But I will grant that the Dramatic Scene toward the end was indeed Very Dramatic, and written in a way that I like. So.

Also, there was one thing in the novel that I found very clever -
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Currently reading: Started reading Love in the Time of Cholera. It had me from the first page. The only other Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel I've read was One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was amazing, and though I feel this one will be a very different book, I expect I'll like it a lot, too.

Reading next: This is not actually a "reading next", more like "Probably will read eventually". That is - there's a new Millennium novel out, The Girl in the Spider's Web. I... probably will read it. Eventually. Though I'll wait for paperback. Or maybe I'll just get the ebook version. On the one hand, I'm kind of nervous - what if it doesn't live up to the original trilogy? On the other hand, there's a good chance that it could be better than the original trilogy. I liked Stieg Larsson's Millennium books, but they suffered from tl;dr syndrome and the first one, especially, might as well be renamed "Blomkvist and the Tedious Swedish Business Transactions". The only reason I pressed through The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was because a friend loved it, and I wanted to find out why. Turned out, I loved it too, but - those novels sure do have weaknesses.

So, who knows. Maybe David Lagercrantz's take on Lisbeth Salander will be awesome. Hopefully it will be! I remember that, after reading the first trilogy, I was more or less satisfied with the way it ended, but at the same time I wanted more. So even with the reservations... I'm really curious. Maybe I should re-read the originals before reading the new novel? Ah, I just don't know.

Other stuff I want to read eventually: Some people tossed recs at me in an Arthuriana discussion post, dumping these here so I don't forget - Idylls of the Queen by Phillys Ann Karr; a whodunnit featuring Kay (!!!) and Mordred working together to solve a murder (!). Also, Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset. Also-also, Jo Walton's Tir Tanagiri Saga. Note to self, read all of these! ... After I take care of the existing to-read list. [/stares woefully at already-existing pile of books] Um.

Bits and Bites

✿ The leaves are starting to turn! Ugh, already? Well, it's only a few, but still. I see gold, and it's not the kind of gold I want to see - cash only, please, toss those loonies here. But leaves? No thank you, I'll pass! Too early for this, grumble grumble. I'm not ready for it to be autumn. The mornings are already too cold.

✿ I ordered some sample vials from a fragrance shop I haven't tried before (TravelingVardo on etsy) because their seasonal autumn scents sounded interesting and clearly I don't have enough scents already. (A complete lie, of course; I absolutely do.) Really excited to try them, but it'll be a while before they arrive, I think. Iiiii... suspect that I won't be ordering anything else from the States for a while; the price conversion made me want to scream.

✿ That feeling! When you feel the need to press your face into a pillow and SCREAM because you love a fictional character that much. Oh, boy. (I just... really have a thing for Emil, oh man. I should make some icons of him or, like, something. I can't believe I haven't done that already.) Which makes it a little odd that I find it difficult to come up with fic ideas for him, but I'm sure I'll hit the right button eventually. ... Also on the subject of SSSS graphic stuff, some people have been doing lyric edits (like this one that Haiz did) and aaah that looks fun, I want to do one too! Probably to "Spent Gladiator 1" because seriously, perfect. But the thought of combing through the comic to find suitable panels for everything makes my brain go "mrrrrr, no". ... Well, maybe on the weekend....

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