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I'm still re-reading (in a very skim-y way) the Sherlock Holmes canon, although it seems I am destined never to finish The Valley of Fear, because (a) long looooong section in the U.S., which is not Doyle's specialist subject, (b) right-wing politics, (c) Moriarty retcon--Watson has never heard of Moriarty in "The Final Problem," but in VoF Holmes tells all about him. As I said last week, Doyle desperately needed a story bible. Or, you know, to give a damn about continuity. One of the late stories, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge," is set in 1892! When Holmes is "dead"!
Anyway, I'm enjoying the Holmes-and-Watson despite wishing the continuity made sense. ( Cut for length )
Recently Read:
Alan Allport's Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War was a bit of a disappointment, especially after waiting for weeks to get it through interlibrary loan. For a scholarly book (it's published by Yale University Press and is based on the author's University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. dissertation) it's long on anecdote and short on analysis. There's a lot of "some people at the time said X, while others said Y," without much attempt to show even which viewpoint was more common, let alone to put those views into context or to figure out whether anybody was right. Obviously in some cases it'ss just a matter of differing viewpoints (for example, civilian grievances over the good food etc. that the forces--even those who were, say, clerks stationed in England and far from combat--got while civilians were thin and threadbare, or service people's resentment at some civilians' ingratitude), but some things (just how much unemployment/underemployment was there among ex-servicemen?) are at least somewhat measurable. Allport doesn't seem interested, though.
( On Allport ignoring queer ex-service people, cut for length )
What I'm reading next:
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halotolerant has started reading the Lord Peter Wimsey books, and I'm finding myself in a mood to re-read some of the early ones.
Tasty ETA: I made these cookies this afternoon, substituting chocolate chips and pecans for the raisins and walnuts. Om nom nom.
I'm still re-reading (in a very skim-y way) the Sherlock Holmes canon, although it seems I am destined never to finish The Valley of Fear, because (a) long looooong section in the U.S., which is not Doyle's specialist subject, (b) right-wing politics, (c) Moriarty retcon--Watson has never heard of Moriarty in "The Final Problem," but in VoF Holmes tells all about him. As I said last week, Doyle desperately needed a story bible. Or, you know, to give a damn about continuity. One of the late stories, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge," is set in 1892! When Holmes is "dead"!
Anyway, I'm enjoying the Holmes-and-Watson despite wishing the continuity made sense. ( Cut for length )
Recently Read:
Alan Allport's Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War was a bit of a disappointment, especially after waiting for weeks to get it through interlibrary loan. For a scholarly book (it's published by Yale University Press and is based on the author's University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. dissertation) it's long on anecdote and short on analysis. There's a lot of "some people at the time said X, while others said Y," without much attempt to show even which viewpoint was more common, let alone to put those views into context or to figure out whether anybody was right. Obviously in some cases it'ss just a matter of differing viewpoints (for example, civilian grievances over the good food etc. that the forces--even those who were, say, clerks stationed in England and far from combat--got while civilians were thin and threadbare, or service people's resentment at some civilians' ingratitude), but some things (just how much unemployment/underemployment was there among ex-servicemen?) are at least somewhat measurable. Allport doesn't seem interested, though.
( On Allport ignoring queer ex-service people, cut for length )
What I'm reading next:
Don't know.
halotolerant has started reading the Lord Peter Wimsey books, and I'm finding myself in a mood to re-read some of the early ones.Tasty ETA: I made these cookies this afternoon, substituting chocolate chips and pecans for the raisins and walnuts. Om nom nom.
