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Reading Wednesday
Jul. 24th, 2024 12:00 pmWhy Mermaids Sing, by CS Harris - The third Sebastian St Cyr mystery. They continue to be very good; this one had an unexpected twist in the romantic subplot and I know it's only book 3 but honestly I hate the lengths authors will go to keep the tension going in a relationship--in this case, as soon as one obstacle to the marriage is removed, another bigger one pops up in its place. Like, c'mon. But the mystery part was fun, and I was amused to run into John Donne's poem again--the go and catch a falling star one. Of course its significance in this book is very different and honestly a little more surface-level than in Howl's Moving Castle, but still fun to see.
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Having finished that book about Assyria I realized I'd never actually read Gilgamesh, so I went and rectified that. I think I knew we only have it in incomplete bits, but the book was still surprisingly thin--and then a good 50% of that was the introduction. But the actual story was fun and I am of course disappointed we don't have more of it.
A Ruse of Shadows, by Sherry Thomas - At last, I got my hands on the latest Lady Sherlock book. It was very good, with the gang finally making some solid moves against Moriarty, and Charlotte solving a cold case while she's at it. Thomas does this Leverage-esque thing where things seem dire for our protagonists and then it's revealed that everything was (mostly) under Charlotte's control all along. It also brought in things from like, two books ago that were a little confusing but that's on me for not remembering the details of a book I read like three years ago. Am already looking forward to the next one.
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, by Adrienne Mayor - I was reading another book about Rome itself when Mithradates and the Mithradatic wars came up, and I realized I didn't know anything about that, so I found this biography, and it was fascinating.
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Having finished that book about Assyria I realized I'd never actually read Gilgamesh, so I went and rectified that. I think I knew we only have it in incomplete bits, but the book was still surprisingly thin--and then a good 50% of that was the introduction. But the actual story was fun and I am of course disappointed we don't have more of it.
A Ruse of Shadows, by Sherry Thomas - At last, I got my hands on the latest Lady Sherlock book. It was very good, with the gang finally making some solid moves against Moriarty, and Charlotte solving a cold case while she's at it. Thomas does this Leverage-esque thing where things seem dire for our protagonists and then it's revealed that everything was (mostly) under Charlotte's control all along. It also brought in things from like, two books ago that were a little confusing but that's on me for not remembering the details of a book I read like three years ago. Am already looking forward to the next one.
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, by Adrienne Mayor - I was reading another book about Rome itself when Mithradates and the Mithradatic wars came up, and I realized I didn't know anything about that, so I found this biography, and it was fascinating.
