Hi Britta, I like quiet mysteries as well as the ones you described. And I love Adam Dalegliesh. Thank you for featuring mysteries on your channel. Aloha
Glad you're back! I would love to see a video focusing on Ursula Le Guin. She is one of my favorite authors. One of my favorite booktubers, Benjamin McEvoy, often does deep dive videos on particular novels and I learn so much from this type of content.
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Thank you very much! Yes, I also watch Benjamin's deep-dive-videos, very instructive.
So true about buddy reading helping us read and enjoy books, if you find good buddy readers that is 😉 I’ve only ever read Wise Children by Angela Carter and that was many moons ago but I do have some of her short stories I might check out sooner rather than later.
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I have the best buddyreaders ☺️ And Angela Carter is a real discovery for me.
I always find Angela Carter's work interesting. I did a project a while ago reading all her books, I didn't always love them but I always got something from them. I also read a great biography of her. I thought the Arkady books were quite original when I read them but definitely agree you can't start with the second one.
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Yes, I absolutely agree, Angela Carter is very interesting. I'm planning on making my way through her work, and I also bought a biography. 😁
I'm so happy to see you! We are in the midst of another heatwave (35 today) and I'm finding my reading really suffers when it's hot. I'm just exhausted the whole time. I am working my way through Master Slave Husband Wife, and it's fabulous, though slowly. I hope your back is continuing to improve, looks like you were in pain for a bit this time.
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Yeah, the back is an ongoing project but it gets better, slowly but surely (I hope). And I can't read when it's so hot, either, my brain just turns into mush... I finished Master Slave recently and really like it. Enjoy!
I love Angela Carter's stuff. Lovely to hear you enjoyed Nights at the Circus. My favourite novels of hers are probably the Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffmann & Heroes and Villains, as I find them so atmospheric. And yes to the Ursula K Le Guin video please. I still haven't read any of her stuff and don't know where to start.
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I will make my way through Carter's work, for sure. And the video about Le Guin is coming soon!
I’m currently reading Le Guin’s ‘Changing Planes’ which is a real hoot! It’s so different from the others I’ve read, clearly the voice of a woman who’s about had it with everything. 😆 Such sharp satire, and quite funny. I’ve wondered about ‘A Desolation Called Peace’. I’ve read the first one, I had a bit of difficulty following what was going on (was it me?), and so not sure I’d like the second book. Is there much that carries over from the first book? Just wondering if I need to read it again before attempting the second; I have a vague recall of the first, but wondering if it’s enough to carry me through the second.
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Ah, I still have to read Changing Planes! As for Desolation I couldn't remember much of the first book either, so I read the Wikipedia-summary 😁 which was absolutely enough to start the 2nd book.
