WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

It's been a long time since I participated in WWW: Wednesdays.  I missed my Monday meme that gives a run-down of what's been going on in my reading world since last week....So, I'm going to update you here.
Current:
The Bone Is Pointed by Arthur W. Upfield: Jeffrey Anderson was a big man with a foul temper--a sadist, and an ugly drunk.  No one cared that no trace of the man could be found when his horse, an animal as mean as its rider, came home riderless.  No one except Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, who is determined to solve the mystery when he is called into the case five months later. With his usual tenacity, he takes up the cold trail.  What happened to Anderson, to his hat, to his stockwhip, to his horse's neck-rope? Bony must rely on his eyes and his wits to help him find the answers, for the lockal inhabitants are keeping their own secrets.
Read Since the Last Wednesday:

Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell 

The School of Night by Louis Bayard

Up Next:
Star Trek & Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant by Jason T Eberl & Kevin S Decker

A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott

Death in the Memorial Garden by Kathie Deviny

 

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

I can't believe how badly I fell down on the job in December--missing two weeks worth of WWW posts. I'm catching up with my list of books read below.

Current:
The Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson Carr: The murderer left too many clues! an open bottle of the deadliest poison known to man was found in an upstairs bathroom...a box of chocolate peppermints lay hidden in false-bottomed bag on the lawn...and inside the music room, the minute hand was missing from the "unstoppable" clock. There was even a film of the killing and five eye-witnesses to boot! Yet, no one new the murderer, or how the incredible crime was committed.


Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (that I posted):

Read Since the New Year began:
Murder Has Its Points by Richard & Frances Lockridge (1/2/12)
My Name Is Legion by Roger Zelazny (1/4/12)

Last of the 2011 Reads:
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis

The Praise Singer by Mary Renault

Corduroy Lost & Found by Don Freeman

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

The Spy-Catcher Gang by John Kelly

Goodnight iPad by Ann Droid

Murder on Theatre Row by Michael Jahn

The Hat by Jan Brett

C. B. Greenfield: A Little Madness by Lucille Kallen

Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women by Autumn Stephens
The Chinese Bell Murders by Robert Van Gulik
Beware of Trains by Edmund Crispin


Up Next:
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
Nothing Can Rescue Me by Elizabeth Daly
Star Trek & Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant by Jason T Eberl & Kevin S Decker

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis: the final installment of the Space Trilogy--the dark forces that have been repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for the force that can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization that is gaining force throughout England, N.I.C.E. (the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments), secretly controlled by humanity's mortal enemies, plans to use Merlin in their plot to "recondition" society. Dr. Ransom forms a countervailing group, Logres, in opposition, and the two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday:
More Holmes for the Holidays by Greenberg, Lellenberg & Waugh (eds)
The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
A Christmas Guest by Anne Perry

Up Next:
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
The Praise Singer by Mary Renault
Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey
(all for challenges)

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
More Holmes for the Holiday by Greenburg, Lellenberg & Waugh (eds): More Holmes for the Holidays, a follow-up to the 1996 Holmes for the Holidays, features 11 new tributes to Conan Doyle. Authors include not only well-known mystery writers such as Anne Perry, Jon Breen, and Peter Lovesey but also "cross-over" Western and sf writers, such as Bill Crider, Loren Estleman, and Tanith Lee. In Perry's story, which leads off, Holmes and Watson determine how a priceless Stradivarius was stolen from a locked room during a ten-minute time frame. In Lee's story, the pair confront an apparent puzzle dealing with a beautiful woman and a family curse. All in all, a likely purchase for most short story collections. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (This is actually two Wednesdays worth--I missed last Wed. Click on titles for review):
Dragons of Light by Orson Scott Card (ed)
Corpus Christmas by Margaret Maron
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers
Striding Folly plus two other Wimsey short stories by Dorothy L Sayers
The Prince Lost to Time by Ann Dukthas

A Family Affair by Rex Stout

Donald Duck: The Lost Jungle City

Batman: The Cheetah Caper

In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L Sayers

The Habit of Widowhood by Robert Barnard
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Electric City by K. K. Beck

Up Next:
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
The Praise Singer by Mary Renault
Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey
(all for challenges)

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Dragon's of Light by Orson Scott Card (ed): A dragon's dozen of stories. Thirteen authors and thirteen illustrators join to bring readers dragons in all their bright and terrible variety. Among the stories: "The Ice Dragon" by George R. R. Martin (illustrated by Alicia Austin) in which a child whose body is never warm finds an ally in a dragon made of ice; "One Winter in Eden" by Michael Bishop (illustrated by Val & John Lakey) in which a dragon lies coiled inside a teacher's heart; "Cockfight" by Jane Yolen (illustrated by Terri Windling) in which a boy steals a dragon and trains it for the cockfights; and "The George Business" by Roger Zelazny (illustrated by Geofry Darrow) in which a knight goes into business with an enterprising dragon.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
The Word for Everything by Roger Mitchell
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
The Pianist in the Dark by Michéle Halberstadt


Up Next:
Corpus Christmas by Margaret Maron
More Holmes for the Holidays by various (Greenburg, Lellenberg & Waugh, eds)
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
English Music by Peter Ackroyd
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
(all for challenges)

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford: Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally, and became the embodiment of the New Woman.

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers: When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters — including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of Lord Peter Wimsey.


Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
The Yellow Room Conspiracy by Peter Dickinson

Wait...only one? Yikes! And Goodreads says I'm six books behind my goal....gotta get busy!

Up Next:
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
English Music by Peter Ackroyd
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
(all for challenges)

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford: Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and married), flouted convention sensationally, and became the embodiment of the New Woman.

The Yellow Room Conspiracy by Peter Dickinson: Two lifelong lovers sort through their shared history of secrets and suspicions, dating back to World War II, to find the truth behind a fatal weekend that became a public scandal. - (Baker & Taylor)

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
Hide & Seek by Wilkie Collins
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell
Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer
They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
To Join the Lost by Seth Steinzor (read in Oct, but review now for book tour)

Up Next:
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
English Music by Peter Ackroyd
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
(all for challenges)

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell: (2nd in the series) Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster is called to a homicide at the home of a single mother in Queens Park, London. Her throat has been cut from ear to ear and her body dumped in the garden. Her daughter and only child, Naomi, who has just turned fourteen this day, is missing. As the hours tick by, the feeling grows among Foster's colleagues that this will most likely becoming a double-murder inquiry. With nothing in the present to indicate a motive, Foster decides to delve into the woman's past, only to find out she doesn't have one. Not sure where else to turn for information, he calls on genealogist, Nigel Barnes for help.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
To Join the Lost by Seth Steinzor (review coming Nov. 9th in a blog tour)
Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L Sayers
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers
Hide & Seek by Wilkie Collins (Hurray! Done! Review coming soon)

Up Next:
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
English Music by Peter Ackroyd
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
(all for challenges)

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Hide & Seek by Wilkie Collins: At the centre of the story, a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe, in rebellion against his repressive father, gets into bad company and meets a mystery stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled. [GOT to get this thing done!]

Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury: On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance's name included among them.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake
To Join the Lost by Seth Steinzor (review coming Nov. 9th in a blog tour)

Up Next:
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell
Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers
(all for challenges)

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Hide & Seek by Wilkie Collins: At the centre of the story, a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe, in rebellion against his repressive father, gets into bad company and meets a mystery stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled. [GOT to get this thing done!]

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells (Dueling Monsters Challenge): Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.


Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
"The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft

Up Next:
A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake
To Join the Lost by Seth Steinzor (Book Tour review book)
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Hide & Seek by Wilkie Collins: At the centre of the story, a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe, in rebellion against his repressive father, gets into bad company and meets a mystery stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell

[Only one book?! Quick! Somebody take my temperature; I must be sick. Oh, wait, I spent the weekend with the Scouts and most of the rest of the time wading through Hide & Seek (very nice book, but another long-winded classic....). Guess I may be okay after all.]


Up Next:
Haunted Gound by Erin Hart
A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Hide & Seek by Wilkie Collins: At the centre of the story, a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe, in rebellion against his repressive father, gets into bad company and meets a mystery stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers by Ray Bradbury
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers
Olga: A Daughter's Tale by Marie-Therese Browne


Up Next:
Haunted Gound by Erin Hart
A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
A Chapbook for Burned-Out Priests, Rabbis, & Ministers by Ray Bradbury: For Bradbury enthusiasts, religionists and nearly everyone else, here's a delightful scrapbook of poems and essays, familiar summations but no less vital from a brilliant young fantasist grown older but not old. A "fallen-away Baptist," Bradbury has found a faith localized in a man-centered universe. Without recourse to the stylistic mannerisms that have made him prey to parody throughout his long career, he preaches with heartfelt urgency a return to space as an antidote to war. In essays he reimagines his lifelong idols, George Bernard Shaw and Herman Melville (GBS as a potential fan of Singing in the Rain, the "only science fiction musical film"; Ishmael as space voyager). His poems, the bulk in free verse, are no less exhilarating and infectious. One opens with an "apeman" sketching "science fictions" on cave walls while another addresses the modern "dichotomy" between Einstein and Christ ("Try this for size;/ A bit of both?"). There is humor, insightful in "Eccentrics Must Truly Have Loved God. They Made So Many of Him" and playful in "Has Anyone Ever Seen Anyone Reading in the Christian Science Reading Rooms?" (He concludes with a poignant image of the ghost of "Mary Baker eddying/ In pools of liquid ectoplasm.../ Reading her own stuff.") Bradbury hails Shaw: "GBS!" The future will add: "Ray!"

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer
March Violets by Philip Kerr
Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb
Middlemarch by George Eliot


Up Next:
Haunted Gound by Erin Hart
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a bookish meme hosted by Book Journey. It's where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week. It's a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list. So hop on over via the link above and join in...and leave a comment here so I can check out what you are reading

Books Read (click on titles for review):
Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer
March Violets by Philip Kerr
Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb


Currently Reading:
Middlemarch by George Eliot: Dorothea Brooke can find no acceptable outlet for her talents or energy and few who share her ideals. As an upper middle-class woman in Victorian England she can't learn Greek or Latin simply for herself; she certainly can't become an architect or have a career; and thus, Dorothea finds herself "Saint Theresa of nothing." Believing she will be happy and fulfilled as "the lampholder" for his great scholarly work, she marries the self-centered intellectual Casaubon, twenty-seven years her senior. Dorothea is not the only character caught by the expectations of British society in this huge, sprawling book. Middlemarch stands above its large and varied fictional community, picking up and examining characters like a jeweler observing stones. There is Lydgate, a struggling young doctor in love with the beautiful but unsuitable Rosamond Vincy; Rosamond's gambling brother Fred and his love, the plain-speaking Mary Garth; Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's attractive cousin, and the ever-curious Mrs. Cadwallader. [Getting closer! only about 200 pages to go (of 848)]

A Chapbook for Burned-Out Priests, Rabbis, & Ministers by Ray Bradbury: For Bradbury enthusiasts, religionists and nearly everyone else, here's a delightful scrapbook of poems and essays, familiar summations but no less vital from a brilliant young fantasist grown older but not old. A "fallen-away Baptist," Bradbury has found a faith localized in a man-centered universe. Without recourse to the stylistic mannerisms that have made him prey to parody throughout his long career, he preaches with heartfelt urgency a return to space as an antidote to war. In essays he reimagines his lifelong idols, George Bernard Shaw and Herman Melville (GBS as a potential fan of Singing in the Rain, the "only science fiction musical film"; Ishmael as space voyager). His poems, the bulk in free verse, are no less exhilarating and infectious. One opens with an "apeman" sketching "science fictions" on cave walls while another addresses the modern "dichotomy" between Einstein and Christ ("Try this for size;/ A bit of both?"). There is humor, insightful in "Eccentrics Must Truly Have Loved God. They Made So Many of Him" and playful in "Has Anyone Ever Seen Anyone Reading in the Christian Science Reading Rooms?" (He concludes with a poignant image of the ghost of "Mary Baker eddying/ In pools of liquid ectoplasm.../ Reading her own stuff.") Bradbury hails Shaw: "GBS!" The future will add: "Ray!"

Books that spark my interest:
Haunted Gound by Erin Hart
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Middlemarch by George Eliot: Dorothea Brooke can find no acceptable outlet for her talents or energy and few who share her ideals. As an upper middle-class woman in Victorian England she can't learn Greek or Latin simply for herself; she certainly can't become an architect or have a career; and thus, Dorothea finds herself "Saint Theresa of nothing." Believing she will be happy and fulfilled as "the lampholder" for his great scholarly work, she marries the self-centered intellectual Casaubon, twenty-seven years her senior. Dorothea is not the only character caught by the expectations of British society in this huge, sprawling book. Middlemarch stands above its large and varied fictional community, picking up and examining characters like a jeweler observing stones. There is Lydgate, a struggling young doctor in love with the beautiful but unsuitable Rosamond Vincy; Rosamond's gambling brother Fred and his love, the plain-speaking Mary Garth; Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's attractive cousin, and the ever-curious Mrs. Cadwallader. [Getting closer! only about 300 pages to go (of 848)]

Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer:

Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his head.

Everybody in the village is ready to tell Chief Inspector Hemingway who did it. Could the murderer have been the dead man's niece? Or perhaps it was the other town solicitor? The couple at the farm had a guilty secret-what was it? And why is it someone else actually wants to be the prime suspect? Add to this the fact that Warrenby was blackmailing someone, and Hemingway has his work cut out for him.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L Sayers
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuin
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

Up Next:
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories of Old Edinburgh by Alan J Wilson, Des Brogan & Frank McGrail (eds)
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Middlemarch by George Eliot: Dorothea Brooke can find no acceptable outlet for her talents or energy and few who share her ideals. As an upper middle-class woman in Victorian England she can't learn Greek or Latin simply for herself; she certainly can't become an architect or have a career; and thus, Dorothea finds herself "Saint Theresa of nothing." Believing she will be happy and fulfilled as "the lampholder" for his great scholarly work, she marries the self-centered intellectual Casaubon, twenty-seven years her senior. Dorothea is not the only character caught by the expectations of British society in this huge, sprawling book. Middlemarch stands above its large and varied fictional community, picking up and examining characters like a jeweler observing stones. There is Lydgate, a struggling young doctor in love with the beautiful but unsuitable Rosamond Vincy; Rosamond's gambling brother Fred and his love, the plain-speaking Mary Garth; Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's attractive cousin, and the ever-curious Mrs. Cadwallader. [Making very sloooooowwwwwww progress on this one. Really need to finish the thing and get it off the docket.]

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
The Future Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Scroll of the Dead by David Stuart Davies
The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell
Starring Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies
Great British Detectives by Martin H Greenberg & Edward D Hoch (eds)
Deadly Reunion by Geraldine Evans
India Black & the Widow of Windsor by Carol K Carr
The Quality of Mercy by David Roberts
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Up Next:
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories of Old Edinburgh by Alan J Wilson, Des Brogan & Frank McGrail (eds)
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

WWW: Wednesdays

WWW: Wednesdays is hosted by MizB over at Should Be Reading. This is a weekly meme that I have been participating in for over a year now.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?

*What did you just recently finish reading?

*What do you think you'll read next?

Current:
Middlemarch by George Eliot: Dorothea Brooke can find no acceptable outlet for her talents or energy and few who share her ideals. As an upper middle-class woman in Victorian England she can't learn Greek or Latin simply for herself; she certainly can't become an architect or have a career; and thus, Dorothea finds herself "Saint Theresa of nothing." Believing she will be happy and fulfilled as "the lampholder" for his great scholarly work, she marries the self-centered intellectual Casaubon, twenty-seven years her senior. Dorothea is not the only character caught by the expectations of British society in this huge, sprawling book. Middlemarch stands above its large and varied fictional community, picking up and examining characters like a jeweler observing stones. There is Lydgate, a struggling young doctor in love with the beautiful but unsuitable Rosamond Vincy; Rosamond's gambling brother Fred and his love, the plain-speaking Mary Garth; Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's attractive cousin, and the ever-curious Mrs. Cadwallader. [Really need to finish this one and get it off the docket.]

The Future Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Scroll of the Dead by David Stuart Davies: Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium, Sebastian Melmoth, a man hell-bent on obtaining immortality after the discovery of an ancient Egyptian papyrus. It is up to Holmes and Watson to stop him and avert disaster...In this fast-paced adventure, the action moves from London to the picturesque Lake District as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson once more battle with the forces of evil.

Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
Beast in View by Margaret Millar

Up Next:
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford