Tiny Houses

[rolanni]

...but where do they put their books?

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'nother work day. I finished Murder with Puffins yesterday, which brings my total Andrews' read to three. I'm gonna swear off. I know they're supposed to be funny, but I just think they're dumb.

Started The Man Behind the Iron Mask, which is not as dense as I'd feared, despite my complete ignorance of the French nobility in the late 1600-early 1700s. I guess I'll grab a Heyer as back-up, despite having gotten two research (really!) books in the mail. Margaret Hoby's diary is not the sort of thing I can read while expecting the phone to ring any second. And I want to kind of casually mooch through the one about the Regency underworld, which makes it a poor choice as a Receptionist Day book.

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

If you want a fascinating one-source intro to the French court late in Louis' life, read the diaries of Saint-Simon (he's the source of the "Man in the Iron Mask" rumor being written down, actually) and if you want really engaging and funny, read the Letters of Madame (Lieselotte von der Pfalz) from the same period. I adore her. I would love the entire Letters, but they are only in Germany and cost a fortune.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

A fortune I ain't got. If I can't get it used and cheap it's not gonna happen for ...a while.

Also, there's the minor detail of my not reading German or French...

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Saint-Simon has been translated--three's a nifty modern version in trade paper, yet! It's only two volumes of it, but that's good enough for anyone who doesn't need the excruciating detail of all 14 vols.