The Incandescent is really good.

That's the new Emily Tesh, yes? I really liked her last book I read, although I cannot remember the name of it. The one that won the Hugo.

In other news, we read The Scarlet Pimpernel for book club (I listened to one of the multiple Librivox recordings), and I can just tell my sister will have loathed it. It's very overwritten, melodramatic, and tropey. Kinda dumb but also I think the source of a lot of tropes in modern genre fiction.

I am inspired to dig a little bit into the history of spy fiction because I wonder how this fits in...

I've never read the book, but I remember liking the movie adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.

I remember liking the movie adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.

I bet it cut out the worst of the anti-semitism, and the repetition. I don't think I ever saw it, maybe I'll see if it's on Youtube.

I remember liking the movie adaptation with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.

That really was delightful.