More Light Summer Reading

I've been trying to read or finish reading some of my more serious books, but that is so hard to do when the weather is hot. Yea, the weather wimp strikes again. Instead, I've read this new Inspector Lynley book, Careless in Red. I haven't read any others in this series, but I have seen the BBC series about the Chief Inspector and his Sargeant. I liked it. It seemed overly long the subject, a lot of un-necessary red herrings and subplots. But it was nice to read about these characters that I've only seen up to this point.

Authors give very precise descriptions of their main characters, of course, and actors don't always look like they should. Lynley is much taller than he appears on my television. Havers seems to be more of a physical mess than she is on the show. That's the only interesting thing about the book. Not quite a beach book, but not The Black Swan, either.

I told Adrian that I am reading The Black Swan. I've been pretty interested in this theory of induction. I think that's what Adrian called it. He just gasped and said that is so old school. Sort of like Sea Change. Once the concept is out there, everyone uses the new bit of jargon. He's sick of it already. I don't normally read The Economist or other similar websites. None of my food or travel blogs talk about Black Swans, so this is new to me. Now that he's disparaged the subject I'm finding it hard to read the book. The guy sounds a little snooty. He was okay before. I guess perception is everything. But I will finish it.