My #Roll100 picks for April are pretty sweet. I already read Jazz back in February, so only have two “musts”.
Marking Time will work for #SeriesLove2025, as it‘s the second in the Cazalet Chronicles.
I own a physical copy of Little Bee and will make it work for #OffMyShelf
I read Book 2 for book club a couple years ago, so I was happy to circle back to the beginning of the story. I listened to the audiobook version, which was a good production using three main narrator voices and a fourth narrator for the “framework” story.
Meanwhile, two more are actively in progress.
#serieslove2025
As she experimented with memoir, biography, and novels that contained elements of each, [Woolf] noticed that the process by which events are converted into history is inevitably distorting, for the past acquires in the telling a shape and coherence that is absent from the present. It's an observation that she expressed sharply when she came to write of her brother's death...
I could hear the water lapping almost at my heels, a flood tide rushing to glut the river. It rises and it falls, that flood, and in time it will have the barbastrelle and the brown-eared bat; it will have the Oak Eggar and the Garden Tiger; it will have the peregrine and the clattering jacks.
Hey @bookandbedandtea I mailed this book to you last week but never posted because I'm bad about that 😂 @Jerdencon The Nature of Disappearing arrived safe and sound as well!! @robinb just keeping you in the loop haha
Thoughts on another round after this one?
A marriage is a private business, even for people who leave behind them such a vast litter of diaries, letters and third-party gossip. What occurs at its centre, what bonds maintain it, are not always visible, or even guessable, to the outsider's greedy eye. The sense that arises from this residue of words is of an abiding love, comprised in equal parts of affection and intellectual stimulation. My inviolable centre, Virginia called Leonard...
pickI enjoyed this cosy mystery in the Harbinder series. The characters Edwin, Natalka & Harbinder give it depth & keep you turning the page. A fun mystery involving several authors from the same writers retreat dying, & the investigation takes us to the retreat & book club. So a little insider-y with tongue in cheek. The many & various victims felt a little disjointed but it comes together. A comfort read with heart & humour.
pickI liked Harbinder! I also appreciated diverse characters.
I really love gothic atmosphere, this reminded me of that. I loved the mixture of darkness and common police work. The setting was amazing!
The murderer was a bit too easy to guess beforehand but this was really enjoyable to read.
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pickNeeded something different, this had been on my TBR for a long time. I went in not remembering anything about it. I enjoyed the story and the different povs.
