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2003-07-24

holiday readings

By Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday July 24, @09:21PM
Summer holidays. Three weeks on a Greek island (Tzia). Backpack full of books &mdash lots of note-writing to do. Not to mention the backlog. So here's the to-be-written-about-but-already-read-list:
  • Death of a Dutchman, Magdalen Nabb
  • Castle Crespin, Allen Andrews
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis (again)
  • Because of the cats, Nicolas Freeling
  • Tsing-Boum, Nicolas Freeling
  • Fantoom in Foe-Lai, Robert van Gulik
  • Learn Greek in 25 years, Brian Church
  • Blandings Castle, P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Bugles Blowing, Nicolas Freeling
  • The King of the Rainy Country, Nicolas Freeling
  • Prisma Nieuwgrieks - Nederlands / Nederlands-Nieuwgrieks
  • Fingersmith, Sarah Watters
  • The Chinese Shawl, Patrica Wentworth
  • Harry Potter and the Oder of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
  • The Fox Woman, Kij Johnson
  • The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett
  • Oude en Nieuwe Buitelingen, Godfried Bomans
  • The Seven Seals, Dennis Wheatley
  • Dr. Joliffe's Boys, Lewis Hough
  • Destinies Shield, David Drake
  • Olive Oil

And I think that I scratch all books from the to-read list and start afresh...


Fingersmith

By Sarah Waters
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on July 24, 2003

Fingersmith, by Sarah Watters is a very well-written, very well-constructed pastiche of a Victorian novel. The plot is partly based in Collins' _Woman in White_, partly on Dickens' Oliver Twist -- make of that what you want! An it's also more or less a lesbian bodice-ripper, if I understand that term correctly.

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