What I am reading Wednesday

[paranoidangel]

What I Just Finished Reading
A Girl Called Justice by Elly Griffiths. This is the first book in a series about a girl at boarding school in the 1930s who solves murder mysteries. It was alright, but the school was so awful that I have no desire to read any more books about that school.

Calling the Shots by Sue Barker. This was really interesting because I knew nothing about her beyond winning Roland Garros once. She talks about all the sports she was presenting for at one point and it explained why I thought she presented everything when I was a child: those were all the sports I watched!

A 1930s Childhood by Colin G Maggs. This was a short book. It was interesting, but quite a bit of it was repeated, which made sense because some of it came under multiple chapters. But I don't know that it needed to be repeated.

What I'm Currently Reading
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. I went to my collection of books to read, pulled this one out and then discovered it had a bookmark in it. It's a collection of short stories, so it doesn't matter where I got to. But it would be good to finish it.

What I'm Reading Next
A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett. Because I checked my Kobo wishlist and found this one was £1.99. Much as I'm excited to read it, I had just started the book above and really ought to finish it first.

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Comments

[thisbluespirit]

by Elly Griffiths.

I think I've read some of her other (adult) mysteries - I am pretty sure they were from the Spooks LJ fandom. Their first series has leads called Ruth and Harry! XD

[paranoidangel]

I've looked them up and they sound interesting. I wondered if the Ruth and Harry in those books spend a lot of time looking at each other, but I saw in the summary of later books that they don't.

[thisbluespirit]

I've read one or two - I liked them, although enough to pick them up if I saw them in a cahrity shop, and not to chase down, if you know what I mean.

And, ha, I've only read a later book. Maybe in early ones they sit on a bench by the river. I'm sure they are the Spooks person - I had a feeling when I saw the name that they were the one people had mentioned as getting published, and then when I realised they'd used Ruth and Harry, I laughed.

[liadt]

'A Girl Called Justice' sounds like a western; might have been a better book!

[paranoidangel]

It does now you mention it! It's called that because the main character is called Justice. And the book wasn't that bad, it was the boarding school that I had a problem with it. If that was a better place then I'd have been more into it.

[liadt]

Heh, shame they didn't have a book called 'Justice Changes School' for you:D

[paranoidangel]

That was how I thought the book was going to end!