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I don't think I've ever come across the name Glendenning before, but here it is in the last book I read and the book I'm reading now. Weird.

The trouble is that although I like Oxford setting and the fiendishly clever puzzles in these books, I've come to realise that despite the occasional flashes of erudition I don't actually like Morse himself very much. Yes, this is the 1970s but the spectacle of a middle-aged man who acts like a teenager who has just discovered the top shelf at the newsagent's is just too depressing.

Always glad to see antepenultimate in the wild, as it were

"LIMPLY THE REVEREND Lionel Lawson shook the last smoothly gloved hand, the slim hand of Mrs Emily Walsh-Atkins, and he knew that the pews in the old church behind him were now empty."

@ShyBookOwl
#FirstLineFridays

More fun on the telly.

Good prose, ridiculously contrived murder(s), and everybody's awful including Morse. And some parts really haven't aged very well.

#EasterCrime

Catching up on #NovemberNarrative!

Day 1: #DayOfTheDead.

I love Morse, both the books and the TV series

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

“Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...”

Another thoroughly enjoyable Morse mystery on the books. I think this one‘s the best so far. Hope to finish the series this year. So on to the next!
#doublespin #bookspinbingo
⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ ½

So excited for #bookspinbingo this month! Here‘s my card, which is almost exclusively made up of prompts to help keep it extra flexible.
#Bookspin : Purchased in 2014
#DoubleBookspin : Service For All the Dead

If you are expecting nice gentle Morse then you will be very disappointed. Didn‘t enjoy this.

Bk6 of my #QuarantineLibraryHaul is another Inspector Morse novel. Unfortunately my library doesn‘t have the next in the series, is it just mine that have only certain books in a series? Every set of crime novels I‘ve looked at so far has books missing from their order, they‘ll have bk1 then Bk4 & bk7 or maybe it‘s Bk2 without the 1st. Very annoying!🙄

Finally getting round to a book that has been stuck on my shelf for years, Book 4 in the Inspector Morse series. It was the tv programme Morse that helped develop my love for crime fiction. Reading this to cover 1979 in my #CenturyofBooks Challenge.

1. It varies from time to time. Right now I‘m enjoying crime/detective novels, because after watching Endeavour I decided I needed to read all the Morse books.
2. I don‘t really have one, but I‘m reading a lot of Colin Dexter right now.
3. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
4. Horror
5. Slightly cheating, I finished the third Morse book (The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn), today, and starting book 4 (tagged) tomorrow.

#HelloThursday

I read a bit of the book sat at Lewis and Hathaways table at The Buttery, Oxford, which excited me more than it should have! Another wonderfully woven story from Colin Dexter, I like how Morse seems to almost accidently happen across the truth #morse

Don't think I've had a better #readingspot