Varia

1. Such is my interest in politics that it comes as news to me that our new provincial premier is gay. Am moderately pleased, as I was pleased at a woman being elected head of the Liberal party, except that Canadian parties only elect women to head them when they're clearly on course to lose the next election after the male head has irretrievably alienated the voters. OTOH I may remain hopeful that the true red-neck heading up the Conservatives causes such a frisson of 'chaos come again' that the province will go for the devil they know.
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The Sorrows of Reading

I love Kate Griffin, none more, but she does suffer from glossolalia. As Griffin she can get away with it; as Catherine Webb, she's bogging down my kid's book and not adding anything.

London Falling is making me sad. It begins with a pair of undercover cops and their handler, and from a couple of shifting viewpoints makes it clear that none of them like or trust the other. Raid on the Big Baddy goes down, as planned and successfully. Suddenly everyone is very much aware that there is a bad apple in the police corps. I've been through those opening sections twice and still can't see why they came to that conclusion. Nor why Undercover 1 breaking his cover exonerates him from any suspicions his boss has of him. Something's happening here and I don't know what it is, do I, Ms Jones?
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