pickEvelyne Redfern is the perfect character to center a historical mystery series around. She is a spunky, smart, avid reader with an intriguing backstory. When she finds the body of a murdered coworker, of course she is going to investigate and do a better job than anyone else and I am going to enjoy every page detailing her progress. This was a really charming start to a series that I am looking forward to continuing.
so-soBeautifully written but this didn‘t work for me. We flit between characters & timelines so it feels more like a story cycle - it lacks the satisfying narrative of a novel. We only scratch the surface of characters & their stories. The love stories are all sweet in contrast with the war scenes but felt contrived or unreal. Stunning, economical prose. It just didn‘t quite hang together for me.
pickI savored this story of a life well lived, told in a series of delicious morsels over the course of 30+ years.
In the making of friends, and family, and in the mastering of one‘s circumstances, The Count is a delight and an inspiration. For some limitations are no match for an open heart.
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When I first read this book many years ago, I absolutely loved the story, characters, and humor. I still feel the same after reading this for the second time, however it did lose a little bit of its magic after the initial read. Regardless, I still really enjoy this book and look forward to watching the new television series based off of it!
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Successful sourdough class and loaf with my youngest daughter and my friend, feeding my starter daily with a new loaf in the works today!
2. My first #litsylove mail ❤️
3. After work party fun, really enjoying my DOC family in the home stretch
4. Laughing til I cried
5. Eldest daughter‘s successful oral surgery today🎉
Thank you the tag @Kshakal
#5joysFriday Thanks @DebinHawaii for the tag!
1) visiting my father-in-law in Reading, England
2) seeing Stonehenge!
3) visiting the Roman Baths
4) visiting FANTASTIC bookstores and literary sites in Bath, England
5) touring Arsenal‘s football stadium in London
So many more things that brought me joy this week! Tonight we arrived in Dublin, so I‘ll have to add our time in Ireland to next week‘s joys!
pickReading along with @peanutnine and the #Pemberlittens group was a lot of fun. This was a great mystery and I liked the twist that the victim hadn‘t yet been killed. I love our two leads and can‘t wait to read more about them.
“She held the gun the way a certain kind of careless man held his glass of whiskey.”
I love a book that means business from the first line!
I just started this book that tells the story of Gatsby from the women characters‘ perspectives.
#FirstLineFridays
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pickI read this for the book club I lead at work and was fascinated by Belle's life. I think the most interesting part about her though was her determined effort to erase her personal life from posterity. My only real hesitation about this is that in the notes at the end the authors stated how they did take some liberties with known fact. It's all well and good to use artistic license when there are gaps in the historical record but not when you know.
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