Status Updates From The Splendour Falls

I give up! It just doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Too many books to read.

So much of my reading lately has been for various research papers. So nice to get back to fiction books!

Slow start but getting better. Going to set this aside for awhile as I start a book I’ve been waiting on for months.

"But sometimes taking the historical perspective helps you understand a little better why people do the things they do. That's what life's all about, I think---understanding each other."

“Things seemed less important, somehow, once the sun was up.”
Emily Braden

Enjoyable so far, easy to read

After putting off Susanna Kearsley's second novel because her first was so darned wordy, I see experience does pay off. She could still trim a lot of adjectives, adverbs, and fanciful description. There is strong beauty in good, direct description. However this is far more endurable than the soft adverbs of "Marianna". I like a livelier pace without romance. Straight mystery would do but there is intrigue here.

I am happy to see that I am liking this story right away. Susanna Kearsley's first novel was too wordy with pointless adverbs, especially the weakening kind like "idly", "softly". I love from the start an interesting premise: a female and male cousin who grew up as best pals, meeting on a research trip for him. Emily is the bilingual protagonist following him to France. Susanna certainly presents Canadians well!

I really want to go to Chinon, France now. :)

Doing a re-read

Slow going so far. Really struggling to get into this one.

Well I was not expecting that emotional turn. :*(

Going to start the second in my planned read through of Kearsley's bibliography. Here we go :)

:( this book is slowly letting me down a bit

having some mixed feelings on this book & kind of feeling a bit disappointed/let down...hoping it turns itself around or gives me some kind of answers by the ending :(

finally hit the 200 pager mark today between errands & the gym :)

I'm glad that I decided to pull this book out of my stack to currently be reading....this storyline has sucked me in & I haven't been able to put it down. Definitely already a page turner for me

Oh, calamity!

Oh, calamity!

A treat to start the New Year. I love this author, and I want to go stay in Chinon right this minute!

She really draws out the mystery~

Drama >:)

I want to stay in a picturesque little château town~

Page 261. It took 261 pages for anything, and I mean anything, to happen in this book. I was getting ready to DNF, and then, "Blam," somebody got dead. Fuck. Now I have to read this plodding mess to the end, or at least until I find out who killed Paul. Ugh!

Can't seem to DNF, but, fuck, this goes absolutely nowhere at a glacial pace. Ugh.

Do-doodle-do-do. The elevator music is still playing; I'm still waiting for something to happen. Likeable characters are the only reason this hasn't become a DNF.

This book should have elevator music playing while I wait for something to happen.

So...when does anything start to happen in this? Also, where do these people get all this money for extended holidays? Must be nice to be so privileged.

Sort of pleasant, but at this point, overly languid in pace.

*Shrug.* Too soon to tell...