Forgot about this one last night:

#23 The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritson

This was a bit of a departure from the other novels I've read by TG, with a large chunk of the book taking place in the past. But I think I enjoyed it all the more, for that. Some romance, a mystery, engaging characters...and some very disturbing details about the state of maternity medicine in 1830's Boston and the horrors of childbed fever. Certainly made me think about all those young lives ruined and lost because doctors didn't know enough not to go straight from an autopsy to examining their pregnant patients without washing their hands first. frown

Oh and Asterix and Cleopatra! Yes, I succumbed to temptation and treated myself to this one in a fit of nostalgia. Perhaps inevitably, so many years down the line, I found it had slightly less depth than I recalled, but still chockful of LOL moments and quiet chuckles.


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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

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