I mentioned in Weekend Update Post 3(b) that part of the reason I decided to go bother Gloryhound on Saturday night was, I am not used to driving in Dartmouth and I thought it would be good practice. And it turned out to be easy.

So last night, since I missed the UPS delivery guy during the day and the pickup place was open until 9 PM, I felt quite confident about Driving In Dartmouth: The Sequel.

Yeah, I know, I should have been more suspicious.

( In which Coneycat navigates on the other side of the harbour... )

Okay. End of driving adventure. It only gets easier from here, I'm sure!

We spoke of Tudor history last week and carmine_rose pointed out a biography that looked interesting. I got hold of it through document delivery this week, and here is a nice meaty review. Sounds like, if you're interested in Anne, this is one you have to read.

Done!

I know I said I was all through with the Tudors, but as my last post makes clear, I seem to have lied. I'll finish The Sunne In Splendour and then it's ho for the Ives book on Anne Boleyn, which appears to be the biography of Henry VIII's second queen.

Over the weekend, however, I had two vampire novels by Barbara Hambly out of the public library. Over the past few weeks I have done considerable giggling and a little ranting about this one inept vampire novel, and in passing I commented that I really don't do vampires in the first place. Hambly's books, especially Those Who Hunt the Night (classed as young adult in my public library) were recommended to me as excellent examples of the genre. Subgenre. Whatever. I also signed out Traveling With the Dead (containing absolutely no references to Jerry Garcia) which is about the same characters (James Asher, Oxford don and former spy, his intellectual wife Lydia, and Don Simon Ysidro, 350-year-old vampire who "danced with both of Henry VIII's remarkable daughters"--a nice turn of phrase for sure.) The books take place in 1907-08.

( And my verdict is... )

So. Apparently I'm not into vampires, and apparently I know why.

Good. Now I don't have any scruples about dropping the subject and moving on to other things that interest me more. Whew!