Books 85-86

85) Stone's Fall: The new Iain Pears novel this one is intended to be structrually similar to his very impressive an Instance of the Fingerpost, but while that one had overlapping views of the same event, each providing additional details to both deepen and clarify, Stone's Fall is chronological, with three accounts providing additional detail on a particular family working back through time. As such it isn't quite as satisfying, because the rules of the nartrative made it easier to determine the mysteries and the endgame then it was in Fingerpost. Still, it was very good, and the detail it gives on finance, the military industrail complex and espionage in the Victorian era is fascinating.

86) The Haunting of Hill House: Shirley Jackson's classic (well, one of them), I was reminded that this was a gap in my reading by some recent discussion in A&E. Creeeeeeepy.