Wednesday reading: The Ringed Castle

After a brief interlude to read Guards! Guards! and The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage* I was unable to resist starting on The Ringed Castle. I managed to race through all 600-plus pages in just over a week (despite pauses to cross-reference with Wikipedia and Google Earth) and finished it last night after having serious difficulty restraining myself from carrying on reading it when I was supposed to be working.

( Spoilery thoughts )

*not actually all that thrilling, tbh, and disappointingly slight for such a thick book. I liked the initial cartoon about Ada Lovelace's life, but I felt that the "adventures" were mostly a bit silly.