The Shortest Way to Hades: Number 2 in Series | 
I really enjoyed the first book of this series, so I decided to get onto the second book right away. This one has a lot of the same tone -- funny without being slapstick, and not trying to push it too hard.
I find it interesting that apparently there's a lot of debate among readers about whether Hilary Tamar is meant to be male or female. It's completely ambiguous, and also utterly irrelevant.
willaful I always find it interesting, with books with ambiguously gendered characters, how often people don't even notice and just automatically assign a gender. Usually defaulting to “he.“ 🙄 10h
shanaqui @willaful I admit, in this situation I think my intuition leans probably male because the character is a law history professor at Oxford who seems to have an immense freedom to do whatever they want, and has a kind of pompous turn of phrase I definitely attribute to a particular generation of dude professors. I'd expect a bit more concern from a woman in that job in the 80s, I think. But I like consciously reinterpreting all that as female. 😄 1h
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