Books in March
In these very strange times, reading can be very consoling. So it was in March, anyway! Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Claudia Griffoni are asked to attend to a dying woman in hospital...
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There's nothing like a public health crisis to give one a chance to read more than normal! Chief Inspector Montalbano is about to be seriously inconvenienced when a film crew arrives in town to make a...
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Another long month, in which to get some reading done! When Elizabeth Glendinning, QC, unexpectedly dies, her one-time colleague and now monk Father Anselm receives a key with instructions from her to...
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I don't think I've ever in my life had a whole month in which I read only ONE book, but it happened this June! I have some excellent excuses though:1) I spent literally the first two weeks of the month...
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A bit of reading for the summer! Ellen Datlow has been editing dark fantasy and horror anthologies for decades, and she definitely knows how to do it. This anthology of all-original stories is no...
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It's September already - amazing! And more books coming this month, too.... Here's last month's choices: In the summer of 1921, Lord Purleigh of Devon hosts a house party at his country estate, with...
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September was a good month for reading; here's to many more such months! Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, his wife Reine-Marie and their children and grandchildren are all in Paris, visiting with...
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Lots of reading time, now Montreal is back on lockdown yet again! Nicholas and his sometime lover Nakota discover a mysterious, pulsating hole in a storage room in the building where he lives; they are...
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Another good month for reading!“Soot and Steel: Dark Tales of London” is a collection of short stories set in London, focusing either on dark fantasy/horror or bleak lives in the city. Seven of the...
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Happy New Year! In late 19th Century New York City, a Golem from Poland and a Jinni from the Syrian desert find each other and become friends. Chava is masterless in that the man for whom she was...
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Happy New Year, and Happy New Books! Charlie Worthing has applied to and been accepted for a job with the Winter Consuls, that hardy group of people who keep the rest of humanity safe during the annual...
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Okay, so this is nuts: When one of Phryne’s intimate acquaintances, a carousel operator in a carnival attached to a circus, asks her to go undercover to investigate a series of mishaps at the circus,...
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Not an April Fool's Day joke - I really *did* read 16 books in March! And here they are: Dr. Edmund (Teddy) Bickleigh is the local GP in the comfortably middle-class hamlet of Wyvern’s Cross;...
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Not enough room in one post! So here is the 16th book I read in March: Re-read; clever.Actually, I finished a 17th book in March, but am saving it for April because otherwise it's just *too much*!
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Wow, I can hardly believe it's the end of April already - time just keeps moving faster and faster, while also standing still! Lots of time to read, though: It’s 1973, and Devin Jones, a 21-year-old...
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Here we are at the end of May - numbers are down here in Quebec, and the curfew is finally lifted! But I still had a lot of time to read: Professor Hilary Tamar, Don of Oxford specializing in the...
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Fewer books than I've been reading of late, but then it's summer now and I'm getting out more! The Hon. Phryne Fisher is invited by Captain Spencer to visit his health spa near Daylesford, with the aim...
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The month began busily and ends busily too - Happy Lughnasadh! Curator Hayley Burke is excited by the prospect of staging an exhibition of Lady Georgiana Fowling’s first editions in a posh hall in...
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Wow, this month just flew by! Re-read. Definitely a hard slog, given how long it is and the extreme teenage angst; one thing the author gets perfectly, though, is how after the death of a loved one,...
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The month began as teeshirt and parasol weather, and reading outside: It’s November, four months since Kate Sharp has been working in England; she had returned to Los Angeles to care for her ailing...
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It's getting blustery in Montreal, perfect reading weather! The elderly members of the Thursday Murder Club - Elizabeth, the one-time spy; Ibrahim, retired psychiatrist; Joyce, the practical nurse; and...
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So I'm a day late posting this, not that it makes any difference! The new President, Douglas Williams, has surprised everybody by appointing Ellen Adams to be his Secretary of State. Adams is from the...
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And we close out the year with another batch of good reading! DCS Simon Serrailler is worried about a new scheme by drug-runners to sell their product: buddy up to small children, show them kindness,...
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Happy New Year! Lots of reading to do! Maisie Dobbs is asked to travel to France, to confirm the death in WWI of an aviator whose dying mother believed that he had lived and whose father promised one...
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A short, but tough, month is February; thank goodness for time to read! Professor Kate Fansler takes over a house in the countryside to sort through the correspondence between a deceased publisher and...
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