More reading and a bit of whimsy
25 June 2007 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nuranarI read Margery Allingham's The Crime at Black Dudley yesterday and today. It's the first Albert Campion book, published in 1929, and I really enjoyed it. It's far more a thriller than a mystery novel, I was pleased to discover. Now I really want to read the next one.
I'm in the midst of arranging The Great Nero Wolfe Book Deal on PaperBackSwap, so of course I must read all the books before they go in the mail. I'm extremely fast, but upwards of two dozen still take me a while.
With so many to choose from, I've been able to go in something like chronological order. I'm enjoying the 1930s Archie Goodwin very much. He's a bit more whimsical and even outrageously funny in his narrative, less mellow than the 1960s version I've read from the library. His devices for either goading or merely irritating Wolfe are delicious.
I need to re-arrange my workspace so I can prop up my feet on a desk drawer. Especially when said feet are clad in fully-fashioned stockings and peep-toe shoes. *purr*
I also need to put my wastebasket somewhere where I can kick it over deliberately, when I'm in a bad mood. Too bad I don't have a fat companion who will be annoyed when I do so.
I'm in the midst of arranging The Great Nero Wolfe Book Deal on PaperBackSwap, so of course I must read all the books before they go in the mail. I'm extremely fast, but upwards of two dozen still take me a while.
With so many to choose from, I've been able to go in something like chronological order. I'm enjoying the 1930s Archie Goodwin very much. He's a bit more whimsical and even outrageously funny in his narrative, less mellow than the 1960s version I've read from the library. His devices for either goading or merely irritating Wolfe are delicious.
I need to re-arrange my workspace so I can prop up my feet on a desk drawer. Especially when said feet are clad in fully-fashioned stockings and peep-toe shoes. *purr*
I also need to put my wastebasket somewhere where I can kick it over deliberately, when I'm in a bad mood. Too bad I don't have a fat companion who will be annoyed when I do so.
