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X: Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season (1999?)
The tenth Inspector Banks novel, and the back story has moved on: he is now estranged from his wife, worried about his son, and about to have an affair with another police officer. Meanwhile, the novel forms a bookend with Hawksmere, which I read just before Christmas, about the coming of a reservoir. In Robinson's novel a dry summer leaves a body exposed as the water levels drop, and Banks sets out to find whodunnit. Another competant thriller.
XI: David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy (2005)
A rather slight gay YA novel, which a case could be made for as sf. A group of friends fall in and out and in of love, and no one seem particularly bothered about sexual orientation, or a cross-dressing quarterback. Actually, that's not entirely true; one of them is hassled by his parents, but everyone else is miraculously tolerant. If only, and so forth. Needs a re-read - both as I'll be writing on it, and because I read it on a train.
I see the Inspector Morse boxset is down to a tenner. H'mm - do I want that much commitment?
The tenth Inspector Banks novel, and the back story has moved on: he is now estranged from his wife, worried about his son, and about to have an affair with another police officer. Meanwhile, the novel forms a bookend with Hawksmere, which I read just before Christmas, about the coming of a reservoir. In Robinson's novel a dry summer leaves a body exposed as the water levels drop, and Banks sets out to find whodunnit. Another competant thriller.
XI: David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy (2005)
A rather slight gay YA novel, which a case could be made for as sf. A group of friends fall in and out and in of love, and no one seem particularly bothered about sexual orientation, or a cross-dressing quarterback. Actually, that's not entirely true; one of them is hassled by his parents, but everyone else is miraculously tolerant. If only, and so forth. Needs a re-read - both as I'll be writing on it, and because I read it on a train.
I see the Inspector Morse boxset is down to a tenner. H'mm - do I want that much commitment?
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