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[LauraT]

Always to talk about Victorian literature, I'm listening to The Woman in White

[Karin]

Jade wrote: "Alannah wrote: "I think once I get the books sitting in that box for my 2021 challenge, I should get back into these classic books."

Before I joined goodreads, I normally stuck to the same classic..."

Goodreads is great for broadening your reading :) !

[Karin]

LauraT wrote: "Always to talk about Victorian literature, I'm listening to The Woman in White"

I liked that a lot in print--how is it on audio?

[Nichole]

I will read Tart of Darkness by Denise Swanson. It is the first book (2018) in Swanson's Chef-to-Go cozy series. I will reopen Let It All Burn later.

[Teri-K]

LauraT wrote: "After a strange book - for me whi I had never heard of it or the author: The Optimist's Daughter - I'm back to one of my several loves: Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre.
I love..."

I'm a huge Miss Read fan! So glad to see someone else who likes her books. Someone once asked me, "Aren't those the books where nothing happens?" For me, maybe nothing happens but I always enjoy reading about it anyway. lol

[Teri-K]

I'm listening to Shards of Honor and Soulless. Both rereads for me. Reading The Falcon at the Portal, reread, and Suddenly You, new-to-me. I'm also starting a couple more new books to see if I really want to read them.

I've always done a fair amount of rereading, but I'm finding this far into quarantine that it's hard for me to really get into new books. I just can't focus on new characters as well. So I've started a lot of new books I haven't finished lately, and am relying on old favorites to keep me entertained.

[LauraT]

Teri-K wrote: "I'm a huge Miss Read fan! So glad to see someone else who likes her books. Someone once asked me, "Aren't those the books where nothing happens?" For me, maybe nothing happens but I always enjoy reading about it anyway. lol."

Well it depends! Think for instance at Miss Claire Remembers: I find it one of the most perfect description of what is called "The Short Century". Far more illuminating than hundreds of essays

[Teri-K]

LauraT wrote: "Well it depends! Think for instance at Miss Claire Remembers: I find it one of the most perfect description of what is called "The Short Century". Far more illuminating than hundreds of essays"

As a girl in school I loved history, but I wanted to know more about the lives of the everyday people, including the women and girls. We didn't get any of that back in the '70s. Book like Miss Reads' celebrate the ordinary people and the children, which I like a lot. And she includes wonderful details, like Miss Read pulling out her big tub and filling it with hot water from her tea kettle when she wants a bath. Also, as a school teacher I love the peeks into how schools worked and the problems their teachers struggled with.

[LauraT]

So true!!!!

[Karin]

Teri-K wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Well it depends! Think for instance at Miss Claire Remembers: I find it one of the most perfect description of what is called "The Short Century". Far more illuminating than hundreds..."

Right! However, in university, which I started in the late 1970s, we did study this stuff more, especially in Women's Studies, which was a new field (none of the profs had degrees in it, but came from other disciplines which I think is important and I hope these departments do this and don't just rely on profs with degrees in it--we got so much great input that way). Also, there was some of that in the Canadian history classes I took (2 or 3 or 4) due to labour history, etc.

[Christine]

Colton Bullseye by Geri Krotow

[LauraT]

I've started The First Man in Rome and I'm still wondering why: I really don't like Roman History!!!!

[Teri-K]

LauraT wrote: "I've started The First Man in Rome and I'm still wondering why: I really don't like Roman History!!!!"

Haha! Maybe this will be the book that changes that. ;)

[Teri-K]

I just started Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce. I need it for a challenge I'm doing that only counts new-to-you authors. It's definitely a kids book, but I'm enjoying it so far. I think I might have liked it quite a lot if it had come out when I was a girl desperately looking for books where the girls weren't always relegated to sidekicks or being rescued.

[Karin]

I'm reading Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak and 3 others.

[LauraT]

Teri-K wrote: "LauraT wrote: "I've started The First Man in Rome and I'm still wondering why: I really don't like Roman History!!!!"

Haha! Maybe this will be the book that changes that. ;)"

It didn't!!!!!!

[Teri-K]

LauraT wrote: "It didn't!!!!!!"

Oh, too bad!

[Christine]

What You Don't See by Tracy Clark

[Christine]

The Next Widow by C.J. Lyons

[Christine]

No One Saw by Beverly Long

[Christine]

Standoff by Patricia Bradley

[Teri-K]

Finished Alanna: The First Adventure. It was OK. I don't think I'd have loved it even if I'd read it when I was younger - a lot of the book concerned pranks and fighting, two things I've never been interested in.

I'm working my way through The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Three Musketeers.

I'm finishing up one reread on audio - The Beekeeper's Apprentice, and am starting another - Changeless.

[Nichole]

I opened The Stairs to Chapel Creek by Danielle Stewart. This is book 4 in Stewart's Missing Pieces series.

[Christine]

Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson

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I crossed another 4 titles off my Netgalley list last week, and added 4 more 🤦‍♀️🤣😂 I read:

A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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The Ex by Nicola Moriarty https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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A Week to Remember by Esther Campion
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And I listened to the audiobook of
The Paris Dressmaker by Kristy Cambron
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[Christine]

Sandy how are 18 of your books going?

[Jess]

I'm now kicking off a month of Irish reading. Starting with The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty

[Christine]

I finished my book called Evasive Action by Carol Ericson

[Teri-K]

I've added A Country Affair - which has a LOT of characters to keep straight and isn't as good as it's cover so far. :(

I'm stretching out my reread of Gaudy Night because I love it so much I never want it to end, and am rereading The Wild Hunt before I go on to read the rest of the series for the first time. These are shorter than Chadwick's later books but still full of real history and interesting characters.

[LauraT]

A funny little book: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Enjoying it quite: a fresh book is something you need these days

[Christine]

Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

[Karin]

LauraT wrote: "A funny little book: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Enjoying it quite: a fresh book is something you need these days"

I have this on my tbr from someone else's review, so I'm glad to read that you are enjoying it.

[Christine]

I finished my book called Unraveling Jane Doe by Carol Ericson

[Christine]

I finished my book called Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Christine wrote: "I finished my book called Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson"

I haven't read this book Christine but I really like the author. ❤📚

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

I only managed to finish 2 books from my Netgalley shelf, and listen to one audiobook last week:

⭐⭐⭐⭐.8 Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
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⭐⭐.3 A Home Like Ours by Fiona Lowe https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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And my ⭐⭐⭐.6 audiobook was Olive by Emma Gannon https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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[Nichole]

I am now deep into Manor of Dying by Kathleen Bridge. It is fourth in Bridges's Hamptons Home and Garden cozy mystery series.

[Dale]

Now reading Of Literature and Lattes by Katherine Reay

[Teri-K]

I finished The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman. It was fine for a mystery, but the characters weren't nearly as interesting as in her longer, straight historical works. I probebly won't read another in this series.

I alsof inished Gaudy Night, though I tried to read it slowly to savor it. ;) Now I'm trying to go slowly through Duplicate Death, since I always enjoy it a lot. Plus I'm listening to Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold. This is another reread for me. These books are so good, though it's hard to convince some people to try them, as they look like scifi, and I guess they are. But they're really great novels in their own right!

[Leslie]

Teri-K wrote: "Plus I'm listening to Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold. This is another reread for me. These books are so good, though it's hard to convince some people to try them, as they look like scifi, and I guess they are. But they're really great novels in their own right!..."

I love the Vorkosigan books!!! I reread the whole series a couple of years ago but it would be very easy to talk myself into rereading them once again - lol!

[Teri-K]

Leslie wrote: "I love the Vorkosigan books!!! I reread the whole series a couple of years ago but it would be very easy to talk myself into rereading them once again - lol!.."

This series is very rereadable. The books aren't all just the same - there's adventure, romance, caper style books, military ones, even a prison break book. And some of them are quite funny. I've read them all a few times, so now I may reread in order, or skip around and pick whichever one fits a challenge or my mood. I get so caught up in these people's lives I can't stay away for long. :)

Have you tried the audio books? They are wonderful, too. At last one got an Audie for best audiobook of the year, and they all have the same excellent narrator so you don't have to make any abrupt listening shifts as the series goes on.

[LauraT]

I'm at the momenti reading two very beautiful book, but hard both of them.
The first one is Conjure Women - a bit confusiong all this going up and down the time line.
The second is a very long book on Italian Soldiers in Russia during WWII, The Red Horse. To Be Read - if you've got time!

[Jess]

I'm currently reading At Swim, Two Boys its quite a difficult writing style but worth it for the characters and setting.

[Christine]

I finished my book called Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

[Leslie]

Teri-K wrote: "Have you tried the audio books? They are wonderful, too. At last one got an Audie for best audiobook of the year, and they all have the same excellent narrator so you don't have to make any abrupt listening shifts as the series goes on. ..."

I have! I started with the paperback omnibuses which my mom gave me and now own most of the books in Kindle format but the last time I reread the series, it was almost all in the form of audiobooks. Grover Gardner is such an excellent narrator :)

[Leslie]

Jess wrote: "I'm currently reading At Swim, Two Boys its quite a difficult writing style but worth it for the characters and setting."

I haven't read that but I have often wondered if the book alludes to or riffs on At Swim-Two-Birds. Have you read that Flann O'Brien book?

[LauraT]

I've started a mystery that I didn't know inspired a tv series of the 70s, Appointment in Black, and a film by François Truffaut.
The book is quite interesting to me, also because I was a kid when the series was broadcasted in Italy and it struck me quite at the time.
The title is The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich

[Nichole]

I'm currently reading Magical Midlife Dating by K.F. Breene. It's book 2 in Breene's paranormal Leveling Up series.

[Teri-K]

Leslie wrote: "I have! I started with the paperback omnibuses which my mom gave me and now own most of the books in Kindle format but the last time I reread the series, it was almost all in the form of audiobooks. Grover Gardner is such an excellent narrator :).."

He is. There are several series I think are at least as good on audio as to read - Eve Dallas, Amelia Peabody, Jeeves and Wooster, and Mary Russell all spring to mind. Once I've heard the audio books the characters will always sound like they do in the books, to me. :)

Speaking of that, I'm now listening to Seeing a Large Cat, Amelia Peabody #9, where we really see "her kids" growing up. I just finished Jeeves in the Offing, a particular favorite of mine.

I'm ready to reread Hand in Glove by Ngaio Marsh. I confess I don't remember this one very well, but I gave it five stars, so I must have liked it. :) This is another series I really enjoy.

It's not all rereading for me, I'm about half way through Diana Wynne Jones' The Pinhoe Egg. I've only read the first in the series before. And I'm starting a "new" Ellery Queen mystery, Cat of Many Tails. Thank goodness for Overdrive - I love being able to read these old books so easily!

One of my goals this spring is to read more nonfiction. I'm just about done with The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds, which I'm enjoying a lot. I wish there were more true-life-adventure books out there. And I've started Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. My son, a test engineer for nuclear ships and subs, recommended it.

[Leslie]

Teri-K wrote: "Leslie wrote: "I have! I started with the paperback omnibuses which my mom gave me and now own most of the books in Kindle format but the last time I reread the series, it was almost all in the for..."

I do agree - for me, Jonathan Cecil's narration of Wodehouse books are even better than reading the books these days! And Grover Gardner is excellent in the Inspector Montalbano mysteries (though I do miss some of the end/foot notes by the translator in the audio versions).

Sounds like you have been pretty wide-ranging in your reading recently - good for you! I have not been very successful with that lately...