Reading Wednesday

[flemmings]

Finished?

Austen, Sense and Sensibility
-- a handbook of how to behave online in these tongue-biting times. No, of course Austen wasn't instructing people to not read the comments and not feed the trolls, but it comes to the same thing. 

Lorac, Case in the Clinic
-- it's not that Lorac picks the least likely suspect to be the murderer, it's that she picks the person who was never a suspect in the first place.

Benson, A Case of Murder in Mayfair
-- well enough, though as ever when a piece of architecture is integral to the plot, I'm utterly unable to follow what happens.

Reading now?

Pratchett, Reaper Man
-- comfort read

Abandoned?

Both Sheine Lende (am I the only one who thinks that sounds Yiddish?) and Blackheart Man. Brain will not brain sufficiently for either.

Next?

Might go on with Northanger Abbey. Maybe another Death book.

Comments

[smokingboot]

I was put off S&S for years by knowing Greg Wise, who played Willoughby in the movie, as a complete *rse at university! Now I find Edward Ferrars strangled silence at once sympathetic and frustrating. Northanger's generally a laugh. You are right, these times are well soothed by Austen.

[flemmings]

But Willoughby is also a complete arse! Type casting!

As I grow more feral I too sympathize with Edward's lack of address, but wonder why his brother thinks that being packed off to the horrors of a public school would have made him better able to resist the wiles of scheming women. At least he wasn't regularly flogged and bullied for ten years.

[heleninwales]

I thought that about The Case in the Clinic too. But I still enjoy the journey, even if the denouement is totally unexpected.

We did Northanger Abbey for O-level English at school, but I did enjoy it, despite it being a set book.

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We did Pride and Prejudice, the only high school English novel I really enjoyed, aside maybe from Cue for Treason. But otherwise-- Hardy, Dickens, Conrad, Steinbeck, yawn. Oh. Maybe because Austen was the only woman writer of the bunch could-it-be?