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Am losing brain cells and memories at a great rate. Early risings, maybe, though I don't rise that early and it's not hot. Busyness or age; am so busy I haven't managed to do laundry since the weekend.

The swimming pool has produced two more zucchini while my back was turned. Luckily the s-i-l turns out to love zucchini. The mystery vines have produced three great yellow flowers; I'm hoping they're the buttercup squash.

What have you just finished reading?
Broken Homes. Not a cliff-hanger, a very intriguing twist, and I look forward to the next volume with great anticipation.

Also this time I *did* note what mysteries he left unanswered. Go me.

ETA: those who will read at a later date and wish to approach the work completely unspoiled might be better skipping the comments here, that unavoidably let slip a few details of the action.

What are you reading now?
Parasol Protectorate 4, having bought 5 by mistake on Monday.

What will you read next?
Parasol 5, no doubt. I see, while looking for something else, that

solaas recommended this to me three years ago as an exemplar of steampunk, which it is. I can make no sense of the steampunk science, but it *sounds* convincing.

Bonus: What have you abandoned reading?
Death Comes to Pemberley, I'm pretty sure.

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And now you see why I have been virtuously keeping my mouth shut for the last few weeks.

Just heard that there'll be a BBC miniseries of Death Comes to Pemberley, which would save me having to read it. XD

I do indeed. Though the explanation suggested sounds so very in character that-- well, I shall wait to see what explanation turns out to be correct.

I just don't expect this to be resolved in one book, given how long it's been in the works. I mean, look how long we've been tracking Faceless Man, and other continuing plot points.

It might play better than it reads.

I can see Lesley wanting to have her cake and eat it - have him fix her face, and then turn him in.

I'm not sure she (or Peter) gives quite the same weight to their apprentice oaths as Nightingale - and possibly other old-school types - do.

Going to screen this comment because people This Side won't be reading until next year. But I think you're right. Though now I can't remember what those apprentice oaths were.

Oops. Thanks for screening that.

I think we see Peter taking the apprentice oath somewhere in book 1, and I assume that Lesley did take the same oath as well. It seems unlikely that she wouldn't have.

And while a large number of people in the demi-monde (I like that phrase) may accept her actions, and even shrug at it, I think that some of the more powerful types (such as Oberon, "word of a soldier," etc) will always have a certain opinion of her because she did it in such a way.

That is, if she's doing what we posit she's doing and if she brings it off. Neither of which are guaranteed, especially the second. The attempted downplaying ('he's just a criminal') didn't really convince me.

And she has been under a great deal of stress, and I suspect it's only getting worse as she realises more and more that she is going to have to live with that situation for the rest of her life. The scene where she and Peter have gone to the Goblin Market and run into the Night Witch, and the way we see ordinary people outside reacting to her when they see her without her mask...