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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: A Sultry Month. London in 1846. For a bookclub.
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Which was not very good. Unless one likes mixed up details of the lives of literary, artistic and political figures of the 1800s.
Very dry. Fails to be satisfactorily chronological, jumping back and forth in time seemingly at random.
Supposedly documenting one hot month in 1846, but skips the first half of the hot month, and details half of July instead, after thunderstorms and rain end the sequence of hot weather.
The author should at least have kept to their conceit of documenting a month chronologically a little. It happens throughout the book that in chapters supposedly concerning specific days, days before and after are also detailed. For example,
Chapter XVI: Tuesday, 30th June. The second sentence starts "The Times had a resounding article on 26th June, ...."! The previous chapter is entitled "
Thursday 25th June to Monday 29th June".
Not a good read for me. 2/5.
Next up: A Prime Read freebie,
The Real Deal by Caitlin Devlin