Wow, I got a lot of reading done here this week: After The Creation of Eve, I read another review copy: 31 Bond Street, by Ellen Horan. After that I read Hester, by Paula Reed, a book I won through LTER but never received, so I borrowed my copy from the library. Now I’m reading Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks. All of these books, with the exception of Hester, I enjoyed very much.
I suspect that I’m not the only one who’s been affected by the rainstorms we’ve been having here—the power went out for six hours yesterday, and since there was really nothing else to do, I sat and read for most of that time. Therefore, I got a good chunk of Miss Marjoribanks read in the afternoon, by flashlight. Today it’s still be wet out, but not to the extent that it was yesterday. Still, since we live in a valley, there’s a huge pool of water on our corner!
Up this week I have a few more review copies I have to read for this month and next, and then I’m going on vacation, so I need a few books to read while I’m away. I’m going to be in Arizona for a few days at the end of the month, and I was thinking about bringing one of Mary Stewart’s books, and I’ve been saving The Expendable Man, a classic suspense novel set in Arizona, about a young doctor who’s accused of the murder of a teenaged hitchhiker. Don’t know what else I’ll take, but oddly enough I’m in the mood for mysteries. What books do you bring on vacation? Does where you go influence what genres you pack to take along?
I suspect that I’m not the only one who’s been affected by the rainstorms we’ve been having here—the power went out for six hours yesterday, and since there was really nothing else to do, I sat and read for most of that time. Therefore, I got a good chunk of Miss Marjoribanks read in the afternoon, by flashlight. Today it’s still be wet out, but not to the extent that it was yesterday. Still, since we live in a valley, there’s a huge pool of water on our corner!
Up this week I have a few more review copies I have to read for this month and next, and then I’m going on vacation, so I need a few books to read while I’m away. I’m going to be in Arizona for a few days at the end of the month, and I was thinking about bringing one of Mary Stewart’s books, and I’ve been saving The Expendable Man, a classic suspense novel set in Arizona, about a young doctor who’s accused of the murder of a teenaged hitchhiker. Don’t know what else I’ll take, but oddly enough I’m in the mood for mysteries. What books do you bring on vacation? Does where you go influence what genres you pack to take along?
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I look forward to hearing what you make of it!