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Last night‘s scores from the book swap on the way home from my private ballet lesson. This makes Monday bearable. When I arrive home I have a wine and a stretch then straight to bed. I even had a pretty good night‘s sleep and woke half an hour early this morning to some online shopping bargains.
pickNot a new book, hubby borrowed it from our DIL‘s collection for a vacation read. He loved it and recommended it, so how could I resist? Yet another WWII novel, a mystery that kept twisting and turning until the end. The first of a series (DIL has the next book, too) that I‘m looking forward to continuing.
I thought I still had a photo from inside Churchill‘s War Rooms in London, but this is the best I could do.
pickUnexpectedly fun and enjoyable epistolary novel! I admit the title put me off, but then it was recommended by people whose opinions I trust and I‘m so glad I gave it a chance.
pick25-4. SO GOOD! I couldn‘t put this down. Loved the mystery of which sister is narrating. Both sisters‘ stories were interesting to me. I cried multiple times at the horrifying things the Nazis did- especially the stories involving young children, as I couldn‘t imagine being in that situation with my young kids. Really wish our country would study this era closely to avoid repeating.
pickI‘ve always had a fondness of wild, unkept English gardens with stone walls. There are some beautiful passages in this book about the human condition that are expressed in the language of wild, growing things. The main character leaves a hollowing London and finds herself in such a garden, tasked with growing food for wartime. The garden meets her with mystery surprise, and ghosts, leading her to go deeper into her relationship with the ⬇️
