What I'm reading
Mar. 23rd, 2019 07:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readerjaneY'know how everybody has a spiciness threshold, where you still enjoy the flavor of the dish, but it's not hurting your mouth so much you have to stop eating? And for some people that's barely spicy at all, where others can chow down blazing-hot dishes?
Paul Cornell is my creepiness threshold.
I'm reading Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? the third in Cornell's Shadow Police series. Thematically, these books aren't that far from Rivers of London: British police officers trying to protect the public from what goes bump in the night, while letting that public stay unaware of the bump-ers. And there are certainly creepy characters and events in RoL, but the feel, the outlook of the police officers, makes SP much scarier to read, for me at least.
I like these police officers. And I'm intrigued by the idea of a city having its own zeitgeist so strongly that people whom the zeitgest remembers most can actually manifest, even if those remembered people are fictional. And I want to find out who SP's Smiling Man is, damnit, and see our heroes (hopefully?) defeat him.
But because I can't read Cornell's books at bedtime, I'm making very slow progress with WKSH. Which means I'm having trouble following the plot, because more time goes by between the small sections I read.
It's frustrating. Like if you can't eat a spicy dish at bedtime 'cause it will keep you from sleeping, but it's a supper food, not a breakfast food, so you may have to give up eating it at all.
Paul Cornell is my creepiness threshold.
I'm reading Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? the third in Cornell's Shadow Police series. Thematically, these books aren't that far from Rivers of London: British police officers trying to protect the public from what goes bump in the night, while letting that public stay unaware of the bump-ers. And there are certainly creepy characters and events in RoL, but the feel, the outlook of the police officers, makes SP much scarier to read, for me at least.
I like these police officers. And I'm intrigued by the idea of a city having its own zeitgeist so strongly that people whom the zeitgest remembers most can actually manifest, even if those remembered people are fictional. And I want to find out who SP's Smiling Man is, damnit, and see our heroes (hopefully?) defeat him.
But because I can't read Cornell's books at bedtime, I'm making very slow progress with WKSH. Which means I'm having trouble following the plot, because more time goes by between the small sections I read.
It's frustrating. Like if you can't eat a spicy dish at bedtime 'cause it will keep you from sleeping, but it's a supper food, not a breakfast food, so you may have to give up eating it at all.
