*cough* Thursday *cough* reading

Finished:

The Day The World Turned Upside Down. Thomas Olde Heuvelt. The only non-puppy piece of short fiction on the Hugo ballot. It's quite fun, and an amusing idea. But I'm still not a huge fan of short fiction that isn't a cute logic puzzle or a silly pun which means I'm mostly "meh" about it.

Current:
Rogues. Still a set of short bits, still largely "meh" because see above, but tolerably entertaining.

Exotic England: Them Making of a Curious Nation; Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. The author describes herself as Ugandan Asian, and the book is a summary of English interactions with non-white people both positive and negative throughout history. Lots of interesting facts about things I'd sort of vaguely heard of.

Buffy season 9: I've read 8, it was OK, Richard got 9 so I'll read it

Next:

I am bouncing off the notion of reading dreadful puppy crap something rotten. I do think that horrible people can write good books sometimes (I have read and enjoyed quite a bit of it), but I'm not a huge fan of short work in general and I read all the puppy stuff last year and it's not that it's *enraging* but just... dull. Anyway, it's all on my Kobo in case I develop a sudden case of wanting to read it.

I've got Novik's Uprooted which I am looking forward to, and have fixed my copy of Crusades Through Arab Eyes so I can read it, so one of those.

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Died on this day in 1972 aged 77 King Edward VIII of Great Britain (my toy,wikipedia). Edward was King for less than a year before abdicating to marry Wallis Simpson; apparently the British couldn't cope with a King marrying a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands. Since he was a Nazi sympathiser this was probably a Good Thing. He lived most of his life in France.

Born on this day in 1660 to Ernest Hanover , Elector of Brunswick-Luneburg and Sophia of Hanover, King George I of Great Britain (my toy,wikipedia). Queen Anne died without any living children, so the crown passed to her 2nd cousin George who was also a grandchild of James VI & I. George had married his first cousin, to ensure that he inherited his uncle's bits of Hanover as well as his father's, the marriage was not happy and was eventually dissolved (she was basically locked up subsequently, albeit in a nice castle). In Britain he was unpopular for being "too German".