October books
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1. Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers Not her best by a long way, but it had its moments (most of which involved small violent girls). I did laugh at the audacity of the bit where Sayers goes "at this point Lord Peter has worked out an important bit of plot, but I expect you have worked it out too so I shall not tell you about it". But I heard a version of it on the wireless a few months ago, so I knew what she wasn't telling us. I also had a vague idea of how the plot was going to work out, which I quite enjoy in crime novels: I am never going to guess whodunit, and I am not that interested in guessing, but I like seeing the pieces fall into place when I already have a vague idea of where they're going to fall.
2. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope I'd never read any Trollope before this one, but on the strength of this I shall definitely read some more. I particularly liked the way the characterisation was handled: characters who initially seemed flat and easily divided into "good" and "bad" were fleshed out and made more complex as the novel went on.
3. Alexandria by Lindsey Davis Pleasingly some of this was about collection management polices and was therefore relevant to my life. I wouldn't class this as one of the best Falcos (though this may be because I really loved the previous one, Saturnalia), but it was still a very enjoyable read.
4. Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester Not as hilarious as promised, but still a very readable account of the financial crisis, understandable to someone (ie me) whose only economics-related background is a C in Stats 1.
(Also this month I read Interlending and Document Supply in Britain Today edited by Jean Bradford and Jenny Brine, Building an Electronic Resource Collection: a Practical Guide by Stuart D. Lee and Frances Boyle and Managing Information Services by Roberts and Rowley. My life: so exciting.)
2. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope I'd never read any Trollope before this one, but on the strength of this I shall definitely read some more. I particularly liked the way the characterisation was handled: characters who initially seemed flat and easily divided into "good" and "bad" were fleshed out and made more complex as the novel went on.
3. Alexandria by Lindsey Davis Pleasingly some of this was about collection management polices and was therefore relevant to my life. I wouldn't class this as one of the best Falcos (though this may be because I really loved the previous one, Saturnalia), but it was still a very enjoyable read.
4. Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester Not as hilarious as promised, but still a very readable account of the financial crisis, understandable to someone (ie me) whose only economics-related background is a C in Stats 1.
(Also this month I read Interlending and Document Supply in Britain Today edited by Jean Bradford and Jenny Brine, Building an Electronic Resource Collection: a Practical Guide by Stuart D. Lee and Frances Boyle and Managing Information Services by Roberts and Rowley. My life: so exciting.)