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    2003-07-24

    holiday readings

    By Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday July 24, @09:21PM
    Summer holidays. Three weeks on a Greek island (Tzia). Backpack full of books &mdash lots of note-writing to do. Not to mention the backlog. So here's the to-be-written-about-but-already-read-list:
    • Death of a Dutchman, Magdalen Nabb
    • Castle Crespin, Allen Andrews
    • To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis (again)
    • Because of the cats, Nicolas Freeling
    • Tsing-Boum, Nicolas Freeling
    • Fantoom in Foe-Lai, Robert van Gulik
    • Learn Greek in 25 years, Brian Church
    • Blandings Castle, P.G. Wodehouse
    • The Bugles Blowing, Nicolas Freeling
    • The King of the Rainy Country, Nicolas Freeling
    • Prisma Nieuwgrieks - Nederlands / Nederlands-Nieuwgrieks
    • Fingersmith, Sarah Watters
    • The Chinese Shawl, Patrica Wentworth
    • Harry Potter and the Oder of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
    • The Fox Woman, Kij Johnson
    • The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett
    • Oude en Nieuwe Buitelingen, Godfried Bomans
    • The Seven Seals, Dennis Wheatley
    • Dr. Joliffe's Boys, Lewis Hough
    • Destinies Shield, David Drake
    • Olive Oil

    And I think that I scratch all books from the to-read list and start afresh...


    Fingersmith

    By Sarah Waters
    Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on July 24, 2003

    Fingersmith, by Sarah Watters is a very well-written, very well-constructed pastiche of a Victorian novel. The plot is partly based in Collins' _Woman in White_, partly on Dickens' Oliver Twist -- make of that what you want! An it's also more or less a lesbian bodice-ripper, if I understand that term correctly.

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