If you’re looking for something to read — literary fiction, mystery, memoir, spy novel, gardening, road trip books in translation — I have a few to recommend from my March reading. Click through to see, and be sure to check out the bookchat that generally builds in the comments (maybe you’ll leave a comment, even a recommendation of your own). . .
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February’s reading: two novels that explore the consequences of colonisation from provocative and entertaining perspectives; a book of short stories by a best-selling author; a collection of humorous personal essays; a comic novel, domestic (LGBT) fiction; and a satisfying mystery novel. Click through to read — perhaps you’ll find something here for your #ToBeRead list.
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I read SO much in January — all fiction, all English, literary fiction, historical fiction, some mystery novels, some books that beg a second reading, and books that take us to the Appalachians, to Cumbria, New York, Paris, Athens, 1950s Minnesota and even into toile-patterned wallpaper . . . Come see if there’s anything you’d like to pull down from the shelf and read. . .
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2023 was another rich year of reading, and putting my Annual Book List together was a good way to remind me of so many great titles. This list offers those titles with briefest of descriptions (genre, setting, subject, etc) and a link back to the monthly post in which the fuller entry originally appeared. Perhaps you’ll find your next book here? Click through to peruse. . .
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Being a grandmother, sometimes I’m lucky to become a child again — as when my grandson and I work together on a project that recalls something my Mother made for my siblings and I 60-some years ago. Technologies and years telescope into a happy afternoon of creativity and reading. . . Click through to read more. . .
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