OMG, that's amazing. I have seen shout-outs to the family in Penny's book notes, and wondered how close they were.

I hadn't seen it mentioned on the board, but Laurence Ferlenghetti has died.

eee! new T. Kingfisher - Paladin's Strength!

YOU JUST MADE MY NIGHT!

That’s what I’m going to read next! I’m excited

Today I finished reading Ngaio Marsh’s complete oeuvre. I feel like I should do something with the knowledge and opinions I have picked up other than thinking “Nice call back to A Man Lies Dead” when a glove button is found in the paddock in Last Ditch. I can advise that if anyone else wants to do it, either slot Money in the Morgue (which was finished by someone else from Marsh’s notes and a few chapters, per the afterword) after Died in the Wool or just skip it. I read it last and I was often thinking “Rory would never!” and maybe I wouldn’t after only 13 books instead of 32. I am now intensely curious about whether any of the unfinished ms made it into the final book unchanged.

So if anyone knows of a graduate program in Murder Mysteries I could apply to with my no-academic-background-in-literature-of-any-kind, let me know.

But now, T Kingfisher awaits!

You can believe I ordered that about five seconds after seeing it ... I'm in the middle of another book right now, but will start the Kingfisher right after.

I have most? all? of Ngaio Marsh's stuff in paperback and can't decide if I want to keep it, or if I just want to get ebook copies of the ones I really like.

I pre-ordered so it just showed up on my reader. I love when that happens

Except two more books I forgot I had pre-ordered have showed up on my reader this morning and I still have the new Mag of F&SF to read - the pressure of the TBR pile, electronic version, mounts!

Always a difficult question with paperbacks, Dana. They (murder mysteries in general, although my mom did have a shelf full of Agatha Christies for a long time) were always fodder for the used book stores for me, which is where I usually got them in the first place so that made sense. I now have shiny matching covers in a folder on my reader, though, which is weirdly satisfying.

I whipped through Paladin's Strength in pretty much record time; it was enjoyable - and brought in more of the paladins from the earlier book. I still prefer Swordheart and the Clockwork Boys to the paladin books in that world, but it's T. Kingfisher, so an auto-buy (still not enough gnoles, though).