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[flemmings]

Gladys Mitchell is ever so much more entertaining than any of Fowler's Seerius Litracher recs (though to be fair he recs her too) that I shall give up the latter until I've made a dent in TPL's collection of the former. Yay that she was so prolific and woe that TPL doesn't have them ALL. Am now reading the one about the standing stones of the Orkney Isles (gazing out to sea) with many interruptions to google pics of same. Damned unheimlich, those stones, let me say.

Let me note that I have also vacuumed the downstairs and swiftered the kitchen and hallway, so it's not all couch potatodom all the time. But even so, I still step on sharp little things that pain my sensitive feet. I want a new vacuum cleaner: or else, more likely, I want a cleaning service to get it done professionally

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[incandescens]

By curious coincidence, I was doing a jigsaw while at home with my parents this last week, and the picture was a medley of book covers designed by Gorey - and one of them was a Gladys Mitchell book, ADDERS ON THE HEATH.

[flemmings]

Gorey and Mitchell were made for each other. Alas, our library doesn't even have that one.

[anna_wing]

She is my favourite Golden Age mystery writer! And "unheimlich" perfectly describes Mrs Bradley too...

Would house slippers help the small, sharp things problem?

[flemmings]

One doesn't expect unheimlich from Golden Age writers and then one starts reading Mitchell.

Oh, I have house slippers and of course they'd help with the tiny owies. (I mean, breadcrumbs? Just how princess and the pea can my feet get? especially when I have to keep pumicing them to keep the callouses in line) It's just that my balance is better in bare feet so I default to that. No matter. It will be sock weather soon enough.