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<![CDATA[Gloria added 'Mr. Darcy's Diary']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78456016
Mr. Darcy's Diary (Paperback)
byAmanda Grange bookshelves: austen-stuff,
currently-reading
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is on page 317 of Pride and Prejudice...
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http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70738930
Gloria
is finished with
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Getting ready for the showdown?
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<![CDATA[Gloria added 'Mr. Darcy, Vampyre']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65273613
Mr. Darcy, Vampyre (Paperback)
byAmanda Grange bookshelves: austen-stuff,
to-read
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<![CDATA[Gloria added 'Rattle His Bones']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54412736
to: Rattle His Bones (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, #8)byCarola Dunn bookshelves: mysteries
This was a very simple mystery, but I enjoyed it. It is set in the British Natural History Museum, and carefully explores the relationships between the different curators and museum staff. I found this interesting, because it touches upon rivalries between related scholarly fields and the big egos common in academia. Really, the book could quite easily have been set in a university department and had a similar flavor (though there wouldn't be an excuse for jewel theft!).
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<![CDATA[Gloria added 'Death at Whitechapel']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54124930
Death at Whitechapel (Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries, No. 6)
byRobin Paige bookshelves: currently-reading,
i-own,
mysteries
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<![CDATA[Gloria added 'Dead In The Water']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49580469
to: Dead In The Water (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, #6)byCarola Dunn bookshelves: mysteries
I had read the earlier installments of this series several years ago, and I had always meant to read more. I finally got around to it, but this book was not really worth it. The mystery is not well constructed, and the ending is rushed (both figuratively and literally--for some reason we get a wierd foot-chase scene that was really out of place). What I found most distasteful was Daisy's attitude. She kept thinking unkind thoughts about the other characters, and then only sort of regretting her meanness. I didn't remember Daisy being so unlikeable before. Since these books are short, I will give them another chance. But they better bounce back quickly.
One note for me, since I've also been reading Robin Paige's Victorian Mysteries: these books take place only 30 years after Paige's, but here finger-printing and other methods of modern forensics are used regularly. In Paige's series the police look upon these methods with a lot of skepticism. The turnaround from distrust to acceptance of these techniques is interesting.
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