Hello all Random Readers and my thanks for your patience. I have now emerged blinking in the sunlight and feeling human again. This happened a day or so ago when I got out of bed and thought "something is wrong" and then I realised that was was wrong was that I felt alright, if that makes sense. Gone was the shakiness, the feeling of nausea and the tiredness. Vanished overnight and gosh, gor blimey, what a relief. I would not wish this virus on my worst enemy no matter how much I loathed them as it totally wiped me out. I stayed indoors as well after my recovery as I gather I could still transfer this fiendish thing to others so thought discretion was the better part of valour.
Anyway, I rejoined my walking group yesterday and had a gentle stroll for about an hour and feel much better for it. Normality has returned.
One does tend to think that when ill you can lie in bed and read and it will all be lovely. Well, it doesn't work that way and I have done very little reading of note over the past month as I could not seem to focus on anything other than the thought was I going to throw up in a moment. Rather limiting.
Anyway, cut the waffle, and I am just going to do a general round up of books I have managed to get through, or start.
Lee Child – Gone tomorrow. Skipped great chunks of this as pages on the best type of machine gun to use and how to assemble it do not appeal. I read this one afternoon, in between dozing, and now cannot remember a thing about it. I am pretty sure, as this is not a new book, that I have already read it but as they are all the same it does not matter. Jack Reacher can get a bit boring after a while. The Netflix series is quite entertaining though. It is now on the charity shop pile.
Tess Gerritsen – The Spy Coast. A new series from this author as she seems to have come to the end of Rizzoli and Isles which is a shame as I really enjoyed them. (the tv series was an abomination turning the relationship between the two protagonists into a silly, sassy ad
libbing pair). This features a bunch of retired spooks who live in Maine and think they are safe. Well, they are not as we all know that Old Spooks never retire, they keep coming back to save the world. Dead bodies start turning up on porches which is obviously A Warning and 
links back to a botched operation some years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed it as I do all this author's books as they are well written with a narrative which moves along nicely. There is a throw away line by one of the characters that they are members of "the Martini Club". and lo and behold the second in this series is called, guess what, the Martini Club. (Reminds me of the Thusday Club series by Richard Osman which features another bunch of retirees solving murders etc. There seems to be a lot of that around at the moment).
Murder as a Fine Art – Carol Carnac. Another gem from the British Library Classic Crime series. this author also writes under the name E C R Lorac and it seems these have been hugely popular and one of the best sellers of this publishing arm of the British Library. And quite right too. There are many more to come and it seems that this is because of their popularity and good to hear. I enjoy the writing of Lorac but, somehow, the style under Carnac is easier to grasp. Not sure why to be honest but there is a sense of clarity about her Carnac style, I sometimes find the Lorac writing can get a bit convoluted.
In the Ministry of Fine Arts (this dates this immediately, can you imagine this current 
government being interested in such an elitist idea?) there is a hideous marble bust on a
pedestal at the top of a staircase
"I've often wonders if it would topple off with a little encouragement" said Pompfret "it would be a wonderful sight to see it bounce down the stairs. It must weigh several tons…."
No guessing what happens next.
Throughly enjpying it and I have no idea Who Done it yet.
Flagging up another received from the BritLib – Lettice Cooper, Tea on Sunday. Bunch of disparate peeps invited for afternoon tea but when they arrive their host is dead.
What larks!
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