Faithful Jenny Dove (and other books...)
Jan. 21st, 2025 07:44 pmIt has been a While since I last made a reading post, so I will begin with a brief round-up of all the books I read over the Christmas break (spent luxuriously flopping on my parents' sofa for the most part, interrupted by a lovely day including meeting up with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
philomytha).
Primarily, I was reading Gimlet. Philomytha did a good round up post about the series recently, but I really did enjoy the process of reading them even when I was cringing my way through looking through my fingers at what was going on. My favourites of this batch (which began with Mops Up) were Mops Up, Gets the Answer, Lends a Hand and Bores In. I did unfortunately get invested in horrible one-sided (or is it) Cub/Gimlet and will be posting some words on that subject whenever Gimlet deigns to participate in the story.
I also read the new Taskmaster book 'Absolute Casserole', which was a fun read and involved the sort of statistics which I enjoy - low stakes but with a real passion behind it. I would recommend it to fans of the show, especially if you're curious about the original Edinburgh version. Incredibly, I discovered via this book that one of the parents at work was IN THE ORIGINAL LIVE SHOW. Madness.
Now onto the title of the post!!!regshoe made a list of Yuletide recs after Christmas which I perused with interest, and the story for '-- And a Perle in the Myddes' was intriguing enough that I bought a copy of an anthology containing it on eBay, and having now read the whole book I can conclusively say: WORTH IT.
( Read more... )
Long story short: it's a very good book. Each story is very different, which doesn't always work for me in an anthology, but the unifying theme of illusion was strong enough to make each story make sense on its own and as part of an anthology.
philomytha).Primarily, I was reading Gimlet. Philomytha did a good round up post about the series recently, but I really did enjoy the process of reading them even when I was cringing my way through looking through my fingers at what was going on. My favourites of this batch (which began with Mops Up) were Mops Up, Gets the Answer, Lends a Hand and Bores In. I did unfortunately get invested in horrible one-sided (or is it) Cub/Gimlet and will be posting some words on that subject whenever Gimlet deigns to participate in the story.
I also read the new Taskmaster book 'Absolute Casserole', which was a fun read and involved the sort of statistics which I enjoy - low stakes but with a real passion behind it. I would recommend it to fans of the show, especially if you're curious about the original Edinburgh version. Incredibly, I discovered via this book that one of the parents at work was IN THE ORIGINAL LIVE SHOW. Madness.
Now onto the title of the post!!!
regshoe made a list of Yuletide recs after Christmas which I perused with interest, and the story for '-- And a Perle in the Myddes' was intriguing enough that I bought a copy of an anthology containing it on eBay, and having now read the whole book I can conclusively say: WORTH IT.( Read more... )
Long story short: it's a very good book. Each story is very different, which doesn't always work for me in an anthology, but the unifying theme of illusion was strong enough to make each story make sense on its own and as part of an anthology.
