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tvordljAnother storm, but at least our bus stop got dug out yesterday. The sidewalks are still unplowed and there's no point doing them because we're getting another 20 - 30 cm over night into tomorrow. I'm really done with all this shit. Supposed to be more on the weekend though that could be more rain. That is almost worse because there's nowhere for it to go. Everything gets wet and slushy and then freezes over. I'm supposed to have a hair appointment on Saturday. I must call and find out if i should cancel or if i cancel on the day, whether i will get charged or not.
17. What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale - Paula Marantz Cohen
A tale about tracking down Jack the Ripper, this time involving author Henry James, his brother and bedridden invalid sister. It was pretty good, and a little different on the usual theme.
18. Us - David Nicholls
The story of a marriage and relationship between a father and son. Another one I enjoyed
19 - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
One of the classics. She's very good at poking holes in New York society from the late 1800s. It's a story about a young man who is set to marry an approved bride and meets and falls for a woman, a cousin of his intended, who has been living in Europe and has left her husband, a great scandal.
20 - His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
Takes place during the Napoleonic wars with England but with an air corps of dragons! Really liked it, and it's a series of books.
21 - The Amazing Mr. Howard - Kenneth W. Harmon
Read this as an early review copy. It was a variation on a vampire story where the vampire, in order to stay alive, kills a series of young women. There are two police officers but only one seems to be the main detective in the case and he's thoroughly dislikeable and unredeemable. I didn't like the book because of that. Sexist, fat-ist, (and not just from that cop, but he's the worst offender). I only finished it because i needed to write a review.
22 - From Whitechapel - Melanie Clegg
Another tale of East End London during the terror of Jack the Ripper. This involves young prostitutes, a daughter of a policeman and a woman from the nicer suburbs of Highbury. Story was quite good.
23 - Gretel and the Dark - Eliza Granville
Dark tale told in two timelines, one at the end of the 19th century in Vienna of a doctor who falls in love with a mysterious patient and the other during WWII of a spoiled young motherless girl living near a "zoo" (clearly a concentration camp) with her doctor father who then dies. She has been told grim fairy tales by a housekeeper earlier in her life and views life through those parameters, which must be a way of dealing with survival in the camp after her father dies. There's a twist at the end, too. While reading it, i didn't really know what to make of it but it makes more sense once you've got to the end. It's well written, though, and different.
17. What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale - Paula Marantz Cohen
A tale about tracking down Jack the Ripper, this time involving author Henry James, his brother and bedridden invalid sister. It was pretty good, and a little different on the usual theme.
18. Us - David Nicholls
The story of a marriage and relationship between a father and son. Another one I enjoyed
19 - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
One of the classics. She's very good at poking holes in New York society from the late 1800s. It's a story about a young man who is set to marry an approved bride and meets and falls for a woman, a cousin of his intended, who has been living in Europe and has left her husband, a great scandal.
20 - His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
Takes place during the Napoleonic wars with England but with an air corps of dragons! Really liked it, and it's a series of books.
21 - The Amazing Mr. Howard - Kenneth W. Harmon
Read this as an early review copy. It was a variation on a vampire story where the vampire, in order to stay alive, kills a series of young women. There are two police officers but only one seems to be the main detective in the case and he's thoroughly dislikeable and unredeemable. I didn't like the book because of that. Sexist, fat-ist, (and not just from that cop, but he's the worst offender). I only finished it because i needed to write a review.
22 - From Whitechapel - Melanie Clegg
Another tale of East End London during the terror of Jack the Ripper. This involves young prostitutes, a daughter of a policeman and a woman from the nicer suburbs of Highbury. Story was quite good.
23 - Gretel and the Dark - Eliza Granville
Dark tale told in two timelines, one at the end of the 19th century in Vienna of a doctor who falls in love with a mysterious patient and the other during WWII of a spoiled young motherless girl living near a "zoo" (clearly a concentration camp) with her doctor father who then dies. She has been told grim fairy tales by a housekeeper earlier in her life and views life through those parameters, which must be a way of dealing with survival in the camp after her father dies. There's a twist at the end, too. While reading it, i didn't really know what to make of it but it makes more sense once you've got to the end. It's well written, though, and different.
