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Saturday, June 25th, 2016 09:57 pmHave various unsatisfactory books on the go for various unsatisfactory reasons, as eg In the Skin of a Lion takes place in Toronto ('one book set in your home town') and ought to be the fast read that mainstream lit usually is, only so far it's all about the building of the Toronto Viaduct. Murder in the Queen's Garden is the third in a series of Elizabethan murder mysteries, which requires skipping over references to previous action; the library only has the annoying large text edition, and large fonts give the workmanlike but undistinguished prose an importance it doesn't deserve; but serendip, I open it up and on p.4 there's Dr Dee and so I must read it. The Hero With a Thousand Faces is fun but long and more western-centric than I care for. (Also the translations of eastern sources he cites are, well, indicative that he didn't have much to choose from.) But that piece of frothy history, The Bucks and Bawds of London Town reveals a detail I would never have expected.
Georgian women played cricket.
And the first question one asks, obviously, is *How???*
( In corsets *and* pads? )
Georgian women played cricket.
And the first question one asks, obviously, is *How???*
( In corsets *and* pads? )