Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
1/16: a mystery
It's been some time since I picked up a Victorian novel with a mystery plot, but I'm now reading Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and it definitely falls in that genre. At times it reminds me of Wilkie Collins (one of my all-time favorite authors), though with fewer eccentric characters overall (or at least so far). I'm enjoying the way in which Braddon pulls a reader in and along, and I really like the character who's doing the detective work. I didn't think I'd warm to him (a young lawyer who's never actually practiced law), but Braddon gradually unfolds him to her audience, and now I'm won over.
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