thistle wellingtons

By Hunter.

regency buck

Regency Buck is a departure for Heyer - it's got the plot of a thriller pasted on, more or less. Someone's trying to kill the heroine's brother Peregrine, but who? The problem with this plot is that all the "clues" are tiresomely (and artificially) belaboured, while the mystery is nonexistant, since the real answer is painfully obvious despite such strategems as writing from the point of view of the hero, who actually knows the entire truth, while selecting strangely and unnaturally vague word choices and scene cuts to "hide" it from the reader (although, again, it's still painfully obvious and she's not fooling anyone). In short, she clearly wasn't cut out for writing thrillers, or perhaps she needed a great deal more practise at it. But either way, despite all this I still preferred it to the "Oh Noes, Gambling" plots.

( Regency Buck with several quotes, including Mr. Brummell at his best! )

christmas books <3

  

These are the principal books I demanded for Christmas from Wax, but I also got a Tracy Chevalier (whom I like, but don't follow eagerly) and an Alexander McCall Smith (been meaning to try) from my mother outlaw. And then I ordered an Alice in Wonderland omnibus for myself (I ordered the one with the awesome cover art, but it remains to be seen whether it will have been a mistake not to get the annotated one)(Those two covers are remarkably similar, but the simple grace of flat mary janes will always triumph over the lumpy, clomping, unattractive outline of platforms).

Yesterday Wax forgot that today was a bank holiday, so our decision to put off visiting Customs for my package first for five hours of fruitless puzzling over taxes and then until today... backfired and now we can't go to Customs after all. Also, we've got a lot of Lindex translashuns to do. Oh, Lindex, World-Class Fashion? How can you claim it, when I was in your store just yesterday marvelling at the dowdiness of your mannequins?

Besides the Heyers, at the recommendation of notjemima I've already read ( the bloody chamber )