PERSONAL: Post-Easter update

[feather_ghyll]

Of course I caught a cold for the Easter holidays, but I did little more than read. I'll be posting fuller reviews of books about murder, heroic new girls, a school for spies and why advertising was the perfect job for a girl in the fifties while she decided whether she wanted to be a career woman or a married housewife.

I also read a generic family inherits a property about which there is a mystey story by Francis Cowen, where the family was pretty lucky that the heroine had finished school and was willing to take care of them all until she was old enough to train as a nurse (Mystery Tower) and a book that's about the production of a 'book' or collection of stories by friends (A Job for the Jays) for another chum. Each chapter contains one of these stories, which the friends all criticise e.g. for contrivance. I couldn't make out if these were stories the author was trying to get rid of somehow because they hadn't sold off. It didn't seem to me as if each stories was saying much about the supposed author, as I couldn't differentiate between the Jays (all girls with names starting with 'J'.) Peculiar. (A Job for the Jays).