Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

What did you read this weekend? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it? (Reminder link to intended weekend reading post)

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[nanila]

I caught up on Nature issues - special mention to a fascinating overview on bees and bee research - and some of the Economist. I also read two chapters of The Sixth Extinction.

[weaverbird]

I used to read Nature all the time, when I worked for a company that had online subscriptions to All The Journals. Should check to see of the library has it...

[nanila]

It's a good Hot Topics overview for science research. I don't often dip into the full-length research papers unless there's something specific to my field, but I nearly always read the first half of an issue (through the Letters) as the articles are pretty accessible even when they're about things like cancer mutations in stem cells which is sooo not my area of expertise.

[legionseagle]

Several pages of Sarah Caudwell's The Sibyl in Her Grave. The relevant bits of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to allow me to work on a fanfic set in Narnia. The first four chapters of Antonia Forest's The Players and the Rebels

[nanila]

Excellent. I hope the fanfic is coming along well.

[komadori]

I finished Rebecca and read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so I'm pretty happy with my reading. I got caught up with Twitter and my reading page here on DW. I also read a few more previews in 12 Books You Can't Miss at Bookcon 2015 even though the only reason I downloaded it was to read the preview of the Night Vale novel.

[nanila]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of my favourite bits of comfort reading/listening (I love the original radio series). Congratulations on your completed reading!

[weaverbird]

I finished Jane Eyre; plus baseline Twitter etc.

[nanila]

Congratulations on completing your intended reading! :)

[alexseanchai]

I read some of Devotional Polytheism and some of The Wisdom of the Myths.

[nanila]

Go you!

[davidgillon]

Late Eclipses, Toby Daye book 4, by Seanan McGuire. People die :(

[nanila]

Oof. Time for some comfort reading, maybe?

[ironed_orchid]

I caught up with lots of social media stuff, and I read a couple of Georgette Heyer's detective novels.

[nanila]

That sounds like a luxuriously pleasant way to spend your reading time. Huzzah!

[ironed_orchid]

I had a much needed 4 day weekend, so was able to break up the chores with lots of relaxation.

[weaverbird]

Which Heyers did you read? (Isn't she wonderful?) Do you also read Tey? I love her detective novels, too.

[ironed_orchid]

I re-read They Found Him Dead and A Blunt Instrument. Next up is Duplicate Death.

Who is Tey? Tell me more.

[weaverbird]

Need to get to those. I've got Why Shoot a Butler?, Detection Unlimited, and Envious Casca, all of which I thoroughly enjoyed.

That would be Josephine Tey. She was a Scot and roughly contemporary to Dorothy L. Sayers. My favorite of hers is Brat Farrar, a PDF of which you can find on Project Gutenberg Australia. And her Inspector Grant novels are very good. I haven't read all of her works yet, but have liked everything so far.

[ironed_orchid]

Thank you.

I just found a second hand copy of Detection Unlimited, the ones I've been reading also feature Hemmingway, first as a Sergeant and then as an Inspector.

[fred_mouse]

i read lots of fanfic, some study materials, and a bit of email. I also picked up (read: took to skating) but did not read a couple of fiction books sitting on the 'half read' pile.

[nanila]

That sounds like quite a bit of reading! \o/

[dhampyresa]

I finished L'aigle et le safran! And it was amazing!

[nanila]

Excellent! I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. :)

[dhampyresa]

Thanks!