Books

[wellinghall]

Reading this week has included:
- A Secret Vice, by JRR Tolkien, ed Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2016, ed Lawrence Booth (NB other Wisden-buyers - my copy has pp 865-992 bound upside down) (partial read only!)
- Merchant Adventurers: The voyage of discovery that transformed Tudor England, by James Evans; adaese gave this to me for my birthday, and I am part-way through it; an interesting and well-told tale of an expedition to find the North East Passage in 1553
- The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, ed Michael Sims (partial re-read)
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Early Detective Stories, ed Hugh Greene (partial re-read)
- ETA: Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie; the third in her Imperial Radch trilogy. I thought that the pacing was a bit off, although it was still a very good book

Comments

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

The north-east passage one sounds terrific! We have a copy of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's a great story. [spoiler] They didn't find the NE passage [/spoiler], but they did establish trade with Russia.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I thought they might have! (I've just coincidentally been swotting up on the life of Boris Godunov, and there they are!)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I know very, very little about Russian history (or, indeed, that of most other countries).