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I still hate packing. It's not going any faster than usual, either.
For some reason, the last time I read Gaudy Night (third or fourth reading approx?), it occurred to me to wonder why on earth I haven't read any of the rest of the Wimsey novels. All I can say is, thank god this didn't occur to me while I was in the midst of my finals, because I have developed a serious problem in this regard. Of course, as new fandoms go, this isn't a House, MD or an SG:A or anything -- there's comparatively little canon and so little fanfic that I don't even know where to look for it (but I read everything there was at the Yuletide archive in a single afternoon). Anyone care to help a sister out?
Memo to me: you're drowsy because you keep forgetting to take the sudafed, you ninny. Repeat after me: mmmmmdecongestants.
I AM GOING TO GET PIZZA NOW OMGYAY.
For some reason, the last time I read Gaudy Night (third or fourth reading approx?), it occurred to me to wonder why on earth I haven't read any of the rest of the Wimsey novels. All I can say is, thank god this didn't occur to me while I was in the midst of my finals, because I have developed a serious problem in this regard. Of course, as new fandoms go, this isn't a House, MD or an SG:A or anything -- there's comparatively little canon and so little fanfic that I don't even know where to look for it (but I read everything there was at the Yuletide archive in a single afternoon). Anyone care to help a sister out?
Memo to me: you're drowsy because you keep forgetting to take the sudafed, you ninny. Repeat after me: mmmmmdecongestants.
I AM GOING TO GET PIZZA NOW OMGYAY.
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Woman, never mind the fanfic-- go get yourself a copy of Whose Body? and read the novels in order. Worry about fanfic later. (Actually, since they go fast, go get yourself Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, Unnatural Death, The Unpleasantness at the Bellonna Club, and Strong Poison now. That should see you through a week, maybe *g*. )
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Correction: I hadn't read any Wimsey novels except for Gaudy Night. I have now read Whose Body? and begun Strong Poison, and in the bag for after that/reading on the plane/whatever are Unnatural Death, Murder Must Advertise, and Busman's Honeymoon, this representing one copy of each title that was available when I went down to the bookstore the other day.
Did you think I was asking about fannish recs instead of canon?!
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Had the bookstore had all the books available, I would have recommended reading them in order, but if you'd have to wait until you got to a better-stocked bookstore, don't bother. But do read all of them-- I know a lot of people who read only the Harriet books, and that makes me sputter incoherently; I love Harriet to pieces, but that romance works so much better if you have the whole context.
Oh, also, The Nine Tailors is still in print, but from a different publisher than the other books, so it sometimes can be hard to find, but don't miss it; it's probably the single best novel of the series.
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I recognize the name of The Nine Tailors, so it's possible that the publisher on this side has access to all of them. Or that I'm hallucinating. Either way, noted; next time I hit the bookstore I'll see what else I can dig up. Do you have opinions about whatsitsname, the last one, that was finished by someone else and published in the, like, -- hang on, here it is: Thrones, Dominations, finished by Jill Patton Walsh, published in 1998? (See, there are times when being a completist crashes into being a purist, and something has to give.)
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