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The Sunday Salon


Another quiet weekend here, as usual. I took a trip to the library yesterday and came away with Barbara Michaels’s Wait For What Will Come, Death at the Priory, by James Ruddick (nonfiction about a Victorian murder, much like The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher), and The Rossetti Letter, by Christi Phillips. I finished the Michaels book pretty quickly, and I’m about 30 pages into the nonfiction book. This week I also read The Winter Mantle and Daughters of the Grail, by Elizabeth Chadwick; Season of Storms, by Susanna Kearsley; and The Chevalier, by Susanna Kearsley. Reviews of some of these are already up, and the reviews of others will be posted later this week, as will a review of Katherine Howe’s The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.

How was your Sunday?
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Unknown said…
I have The Rosetti Letter and The Devlin Diary, too. I hope that we like them! You definitely came back with some great stuff!

Jennifer @ The Literate Housewife Review
June 7, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Andi said…
Good Sunday here...full of reading. That's always a good thing.

Death at the Priory sounds especially good. I hope my library has it, too!
June 8, 2009 at 1:33 AM
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