Recent reading

( Covid update (everyone is okay so far) )

Domestick Disruptions by L A Hall (#6 of the Comfortable Courtesan series, 2018)
Author, if you are reading this: bless you for writing such wonderful comfort reading. Just what I need during this time.

If you have not read these, start here. Features: 19th century pastiche, lots of great relationships between women (and men), lots of queer characters, and a lovely warmth in the storytelling.

Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken (1964)
Yes, this definitely featured more Hanoverian plots than the previous one, and it was a lot of fun! Airships, an exploding castle, mistaken identities, shipwrecks, further flocks of wolves, etc etc. Dido Twite was annoying at first but quickly became an engaging character. I do wonder whether Good King James III is by this time some sort of undead creature? I mean, it's the 1830's and he was born in 1688. Would not really be out of place in this book.

Musings on a possible Temeraire AU for Flight of the Heron

I don't know whether this is something I am actually going to write, but I thought it would be fun to jot down some notes on a possible Temeraire AU of Flight of the Heron.

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