This week was not at all usual.  Monday was my birthday, so Jim and I went out.  Tuesday was filled with all sorts of appointments.  Wednesday, late morning, I had a violently bad sore throat.  I went to the doctor, on Thursday, and now have the reassurance that it’s not strep.  I also have some drugs to help with the symptoms, since quantities of tea and throat lozenges were doing nothing.   One good thing, I suppose, is between not feeling well and time waiting, that I had a lot more time to read.

Now for the usual reminder…  The Friday Fragments is not a book review column; it’s a list of what I’m reading and maybe a bit about my opinions.  I always read the Comments section, because I enjoy learning what other people are reading.  Oh, and I don’t usually list shorter works unless in a collection or articles.  I also don’t usually list my scattered research reading.

Completed:

The Mills of the Gods by Tim Powers.  E-ARC.  So far, I’m hooked.  Due out in early December but, if like me, you can’t wait, you can get an advanced reader copy from Baen Books.

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.  Audiobook.  Perhaps her best-known.  People either hate it for being slow or are fascinated by the complex plot—which has less to do with Richard III than with how quickly people jump to conclusions based on minimal evidence.

Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland.  Good plot, expanded setting, fun characters.

The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey.  Audiobook.  Published posthumously.

In Progress:

Practicing to Be Lightning by Betsy James.  ARC.  I’m liking so far.  Quite a bit!

Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey.  Audiobook.  Not an Allan Grant novel.  The first half sets up the problem so this reader finds herself feeling she knows that place.

Also:

A few odds and ends came in that have kept me from the latest Smithsonian, but I’ll be back to it.