| | What I'm reading *
I've always read. While growing up, reading was a refuge when I found life too unpleasant or stressful. Consequently I've bought a lot of books over time as well.
Now that I'm no longer in the rich corporate phase of my life I've rediscovered the library. Dayton's library may be maligned by some but is still a great resource. One type of book I like to read is gay fiction and I was surprised to see a lot of it in the Dayton library's catalog. Plus you can even ask them to buy particular titles, and they will!
Below you can see the five most recent books either that I'm reading or that I've acquired. You can search my books, or you can see all my books. Also my classes page has links back to this page for the books for each class.
|
ISBN: 0451410815
| 2007-02-24 | 0451410815 | The Man with a Load of Mischief | Grimes, Martha | | | | As with another murder mystery series, having recently read the latest of Martha Grimes' Richard Jury offerings I decided to go back and read this book, her first one. I'm sure I read this shortly after it first came out, when I was still in high school, because I was a big murder mystery fan, but it was a fun trip back to an earlier time, before cell phones and Internet. I don't remember what I thought of Marshall Trueblood the first time I read this book, back when I was in the closet and thinking, foolishly, that there weren't any other gay people in the world; one thing I admire about Grimes is her treatment of gay characters, including in her most recent Richard Jury novel, Dust.
Seeing the introduction of Jury's ex-peer friend Melrose Plant again, made me realize Grimes, who is an American writing mysteries set in England, mixes up British titles and styles. Plant disclaims his titles but still sometimes gets addressed as "Lord Ardry." Yet that makes no sense since his title was "Earl of Caverness," which means, were he still a peer, he'd be addressed in common usage as "Lord Caverness." Plant's aunt Agatha gets addressed as "Lady Ardry" but she was never Countess of Caverness but instead is the widow of Plant's uncle, The Hon. Robert Ardry, younger son of Plant's grandfather. Sons of earls aren't even lords (unlike earls' daughters such as Lady Diana), so Agatha would be at most the Hon. Mrs. Robert Ardry, not Lady Ardry and not Lady Agatha. Of course Agatha's a social climbing American, so perhaps Grimes mixes up all this as a reflection of Agatha's confusion. | |
| |