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[flemmings]

I so, so want a day when I don't have to be up at a given time. I believe this is known as 'Saturday.'

Did finish Paris Requiem, which is sort of bearable once you get past the notion that the chief of the Paris police will not object when a brash young Boston lawyer interferes in his investigation, says (frequently) 'This is what you must do now', lies more than once, and absconds with material evidence which he keeps forgetting to give to the police. Read as Belle Epoque fantasy if it all gets too much. It still has those odd word usages that segue into malapropism. A criminal threatened with murder charges 'catapults'-- 'he still denied the two murders but admitted he knew about the white slaving.' Reminds me of the slash writer who made an aged-down Avon become Blake's catamount.

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[incandescens]

Blake's catamount

That's almost too perfect. And I'm sure he spits and snarls, too.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

And roars his terrible roars and rolls his terrible eyes and shows his terrible teeth.

[incandescens]

Incidentally, I made a run to the post office during lunch. The new Aaronovitch is now in the post, and should with any luck be out of the country and in the airmail system before any strikes foul things up.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I am forever grateful. Is there anything published This Side that you might care for in return?

(Have you ever read/ are you interested in reading IJ Parker's Akitada mysteries set in Heian-kyo? They remind me oddly of Judge Dee, in that Akitada too is a morally upright sort who only avoids being Confucian by virtue of the fact that Heian-kyo was too geomantic and Buddhist for that sort of thing.)

[incandescens]

My pleasure. There's nothing I'd ask for at the moment, but if anything does come up, I will mention it.

I don't think I recognise that name, either of author or detective. Let me check the local library, to see if there's any around over here? You've got me curious now.