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.

Comments

[shana.livejournal.com]

For Donna Andrews -- my favorites are Murder With Peacocks, The Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingoes, and Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon. The ousiders take on conventions was mildly amusing in We'll Always Have Parrots.

But I think you might find the office in Crouching Buzzard amusing.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I read Crouching Buzzard first. I worked for MicroProse (Sid Meier and Bill Stealey's outfit) back before the rocks cooled, and recognized the office, but Meg got on my nerves. I thought that was because I'd just started any old place, so I went back and picked up Peacocks and Puffins. Peacocks was mildly entertaining. Puffins was...aggravating -- and (my execrable taste) I still don't like Meg.