Life and a slump made May a lighter reading month for me. I enjoyed the The Island of Missing Trees and Spring Magic was an absolute delight and helped me wade through May. Have you read any of these? 📚🤓🤩 What helps you get through reading slumps?
pickSuch wonderfully rendered, full characters in this one! Many of them pushed my buttons and got my ire up (and the men were particularly spectacular jackasses), but they all felt true to life, and the glimpse into this small English village, upended with the arrival of the perplexing Miss Plum, was a light, fun way to spend some reading hours.
Can't even get up for a glass of water around here! #TomKitten claims another one. #CurrentlyReading #CatsOfLitsy
pickSeaside holiday in Scotland. What could be better? Thank you, @LeahBergen for the recommendation! Bonus: it was my #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
pickI joined the #furrowedmiddlebrowclub for my first read & am smitten 😁 Based on the title & how it started off, I expected a somewhat dark tale of #spinsterlit but this bloomed into quite a different story. The characters were flawed & real; they felt alive, very much as people are. There were no sudden reveals, but everything felt emotionally true. I took great comfort in the descriptions of a quiet but not quite idyllic 1950s English village.
pickThis 1959 novel shows the effect of performing an impulsive act of kindness (rescuing a suicidal stranger from ‘death by duck pond‘) on a ‘set in her ways‘ spinster‘s life. It‘s a delicious peek into a cozy, insular village and tinged with just a bit of suspense. I loved it.
Okay, #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub! What‘s our July read? It‘s your pick, @quietjenn !
pickAs part of the #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub , I enjoyed this novel. It could have gone darker, but didn‘t. Miss Penny does a stranger a good deed by saving her life and then can‘t get her out of her life or her spare room.
Set in 1950s Yorkshire, it has a lot of the markers I‘ve come to expect from this imprint...light humor & romance & very much Britain at a certain place and time.
Now the question is what‘s our pick for July? You‘re up Jenn. 😀
pickAn enjoyable read with the #furrowedmiddlebrowclub gang. I liked the setting, the characterisation, and the ice skating scenes were fun. I don‘t know why the book is not titled Miss Penny and Miss Plum instead. I would have liked to know the backstory of Miss Plum. The ending was a surprise but I think very apt.
pickI think this book should have been called Alison & Ada, because that relationship is at the heart of the book. Miss Plum was a spectacularly damp squib, & don't get me started on the men! I'd suggest that this is a feminist text, except that Miss Penny seemed trapped in childishness in spite of her independence. Did anyone get the Victoria Plum joke? #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub.
I think the two Miss Ps fit #CharactersAreFrenemies for #Booked2021
rubyslippersreads, quietjenn, Cinfhen, erzascarletbookgasm, BarbaraTheBibliophage, LeahBergen, batsy, alisiakae, Cathythoughts, Ruthiella
Enjoying a bit of Miss Plum and Miss Penny before bed. I've slept *a lot* today (2nd vaccination yesterday), so we'll see how long it takes for sleep to come. I'm still pretty early in the book, but quite enjoying it. #furrowedmiddlebrowclub
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