Ryan

This was suggested to me on the basis of it winning the Stephen Leacock medal, but having read it I'm not sure why it did? I didn't find any humour in the story here. It's a sad story, and those can of course have a lot of value, but I must have completely disconnected from the type of story that Johnston was trying to tell here.

I've been playing a lot of the Arkham Horror living card game lately, which has been so enjoyable that it encouraged me to go back and re-read some of the source material. Lovecraft does a great job here of creating a fascinating setting and building a world.

This was fairly interesting in a history trivia sort of way - Peal has an engaging style that makes it feel like you're getting a history lesson from someone down at the pub rather than in an academic lecture. The book felt fairly meandering, though - there's no real sense of why these are the Georgians we should want to meet, or how they're connected to each other or to larger historical narratives.