It’s just hot. We had 101 on Tuesday, and a record high low temperature on Wednesday. That means our low temperature was 81, and the previous high low temperature was 77. The good news is we haven’t had fireworks for the last two days. Not a fan.
I’m reading a previously unpublished mystery from E.C.R. Lorac, Two-Way Murder. According to Martin Edwards, editor of the British Library Crime Classics, this one was written in the last couple years of her life, and set in a different location than her other mysteries. It’s still a puzzle mystery.
Here’s the quick summary. “It is a dark and misty night—isn’t it always?—and bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball at Fordings, a beautiful concert hall in the countryside. There waits the charming Dilys Maine, and a party buzzing with rumours of one Rosemary Reeve who disappeared on the eve of this event the previous year, not found to this day.” Nicholas offers to drive Dilys home, but on the way, he finds a body in the road. And, everyone is hiding something or telling lies. It’s another enjoyable Golden Age mystery.
What about you? I think most of us are coping with hot weather. Are you okay? And, what are you reading to take your mind off the weather?
It’s actually been cool here – only in the 80’s. It was weird to be that low for the 4th. It’s always blazing hot. But we’ll get back there this weekend.
Right now, I’m about a third of the way into Movieland by Lee Goldberg. This is the 4th in his Eve Ronin series. So far, I’m enjoying it. Not sure where the book is headed, like not even sure where a thread is for the characters to pick up, but I’m along for the ride and I trust that we will get there.
You’ll get there, Mark. One of my favorites in that series.
I love Lorac, she is definitely my newest favorite of the Golden Age writers. Murder in the Mill Race and Fell Murder are two noteworthy books. I’m reading Death In Old Bombay, continuing my around the world mystery tour, and 4:50 From Paddington for a book club.
I’m enjoying Lorac as well, Becky. And, I’m going to be reading the forthcoming Clare Mackintosh, The Last Party (Nov release), set in Wales, for our genre study at the library.
My boyfriend’s family visited on the 4th and now my sister-in-law and niece are staying with us for a few days. My brother wanted to see them so I wound up doing dinner for eight last night. So I haven’t managed to finish anything but I’m about halfway through Thomas Kings’ DREADFULWATER and am enjoying it. Thanks for the recommendation Lesa.
You’re welcome, Sandy! I’m glad you’re enjoying DreadfulWater. And, it’s always nice to have family time.
We’re away for a few days with cousins in Connecticut. It was warm (mid-80s) yesterday but the next three days will be a pleasant and cooler than normal upper 70s. So far we’ve been lucky with the weather this summer, not sweltering like so many of you are.
Like Mark, I read Lee Goldberg’s MOVIELAND, rushing to finish it yesterday morning before we left. There seemed to be less of Eve’s partner Duncan than usual, though what there was was amusing as ever. There are a series of shootings in Malibu State Park (sorry; I don’t have the book to check the actual name) and officials are giving it the “Mayor of Amity” reaction from JAWS – denial that there is a serial shooter, even after someone is killed, in fear of hurting tourism, not to mention house values of the super rich. Duncan knows it is real, and as usual Eve rushes in recklessly and puts herself in danger. The book is longer and more complex than the earlier ones – Goldberg indicates that it is partly based on facts – but it holds the interest throughout. But start with book one, LOST HILLS.
I talked about Sulari Gentill’s THE WOMAN IN THE LIBRARY last time. Good book.
Currently reading short story collections by Jean Rhys and David Alexander. I started THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB by Robert Thorogood, who created DEATH IN PARADISE (on Britbox). Too soon to see where it’s going. Jackie is reading it too after finishing her Keri Arthur book about Lizzie Grace, SORROW’S SONG.
You know how much I like Duncan in Goldberg’s series, Jeff.
Enjoy that weather! We had a slight break today because we had rain before 5:30 this morning. It helped to cool things off a little, and we needed the rain.
We’ll see what you both think of The Marlow Murder Club.
Beautiful summer weather here in Northern NV with warm days and cool nights. Just a tiny bit of haze from CA wildfires. Quite an abundance of birds this year, morning’s are almost noisy.
I’m currently reading the Lorac featured here recently, FELL MURDER. The first quarter of the book sets the scene before any crime is committed.
While not my typical read, but I fell for the cover art! With AUNT DIMITY AND THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE I jumped into Nancy Atherton’s Aunt Dimity series with the 25th installment. A charming cozy set in a quaint English village. Mostly about the characters with a bit of English industrial history gently woven in. The language is a bit over the top (harbored a harrowing secret), perhaps making it a perfect audio series.
DEATH AND THE PENGUIN 2011 Andrey Kurkov is having a resurgence from literary fundraising for Ukraine. Dark humor infuses this unusual, moving satire featuring an aspiring writer and his only friend, a zoo penguin.
This next one I selected for the location. BADLANDS by C.J. Box has drugs, gangs and corrupt cops all in a North Dakota oil boom town in the cold of winter. Detective Cassie Dewell has her hands full when she transfers in as Criminal Investigator.
Coincidentally PAY DIRT ROAD, this year’s debut novel by Samantha Jayne Allen also features a small town and an oil boom. Faced with no job prospects and no money for grad school, Annie returns to her hometown in hardscrabble Texas where she waits tables at the town diner. The writing was very descriptive, I could imagine the landscape and the characters, but overall a sad, depressing story.
You’re right, MM. I liked Pay Dirt Road, but that is a sad community with little hope for young people.
It’s been years since I read an Aunt Dimity novel. I think I read the first couple that came out, and that was it.
I’ve enjoyed every Lorac that I’ve picked up. I hope that continues!
Good morning! Getting ready for my walking group at 8:00 a.m.–finally it’s not to hot to walk . . . yet. High may be 87 today, and we’re in for another hot spell (sigh). Reading this week has been good, though.
Thanks to Jenny Colgan for providing a brief recap of the first four books in the Mure series at the front of the fifth book, AN ISLAND WEDDING, as she writes more than one series at a time and it’s easy to forget what has happened in the last book. Having said that, I would still recommend reading the series books in order, to get the full impact of each character’s journey. Cafe proprietor Flora and her fiance, Joel, have a one-year-old and are looking forward to their wedding, which Joel sees as very small and intimate. At the same time, Flora has also taken over her brother’s late husband’s luxury hotel, the Rock, and is eager to plan an extravagant wedding there to build the business. Beautiful Olivia, younger sister of jealous, plain Jan, wants to return to the island for her nuptials, with no expense spared, and her wedding planner has no problem spending Olivia’s wealthy fiancé’s money in the process. What happens when both weddings are planned for the same weekend and Flora starts to regret keeping hers so small? There is so much to enjoy here, including the wonderful culture of a tiny, remote island between Scotland and Norway, some poignant and hilarious bridal gown shopping scenes, a wedding celebration that is nothing short of a bride’s wildest fantasies come true, and an unexpected resolution. The subplot of a Syrian refugee doctor, his two young boys, his lost wife and his current secret lover is engrossing and heart-breaking. I’ve said it many times–Colgan is my author of choice for comfort food books, and this one is no exception.
Claire Pooley’s books make me happy. Her second novel, IONA IVERSON’S RULES FOR COMMUTING, illustrates how strangers who see each other regularly on a train can (sometimes reluctantly) come together as “found family” to help each other gain new perspectives and resolve problems they can’t seem to solve on their own. Title character Iona is 57 and has worked for decades as an advice columnist for a women’s magazine after a career in show business. Her editor thinks her column is not relevant to millennials, so she is struggling to keep her job. Flamboyantly dressed and toting her French bulldog and a copious tote bag, Iona is a familiar sight to fellow travelers and not shy about communicating with them. Piers appears to be a wealthy, entitled banker, but he is hiding something. Martha is a teenager who humiliated herself when she was just trying to fit in at school. Sanjay, an oncology nurse, is loved by his patients and their families but is plagued with panic attacks. And he is attracted to another fellow traveler, Emmie, who seems to have the perfect romantic relationship already. Then there’s David, an older attorney who feels his wife is slipping away from him. How these individuals find each other, for their common good, is clever, poignant, sometimes humorous, and absolutely life-affirming. Pooley’s writing style is accessible, both grounded and emotional, and the details are priceless and often unexpected. This will be on my favorites list for 2022.
Jenny L. Howe’s sparkling debut novel, THE MAKE-UP TEST, is for readers who don’t mind a little Beowulf or Chaucer in a contemporary romance. The relationship Allison and Colin had built at Ivy League Brown University had ended badly. Allison felt betrayed when Colin unexpectedly won a prestigious prize she coveted and he had claimed he wasn’t applying for. Two years later, Allison is dismayed to find Colin in her Ph.D. program. Both are studying medieval literature–Allison’s specialty–and vying for the plum role of permanent teaching assistant to a highly respected professor. There’s clearly still a spark between them, but Allison is resisting. Both characters also have family issues. Colin’s beloved grandfather and mentor has early dementia. Allison’s estranged and alienating father is having medical problems, and Allison can’t seem to care. Although I couldn’t help wondering whether Allison and Colin SHOULD be together, I enjoyed them as flawed but evolving characters. Supporting characters such as Colin’s grandfather, Allison’s clothing designer best friend and roommate Sophie, the esteemed professor herself, and some of the other students in the pair’s graduate program lent interest and depth to the narrative. This book surprised and delighted me with the author’s self-assured writing style and intelligent plot. (September)
Next up was A SHOE STORY by Jane L. Rosen (loved her two earlier books). After seven years of taking care of her now-deceased father, who was gravely injured in the accident that killed her mother, Esme tries to reclaim the dreams she had for herself following graduation from Dartmouth. Those dreams included moving to NYC with her boyfriend, starting a job she had landed at an art gallery, and getting married before she turned 30. Grabbing a month-long temporary gig as a live-in dogwalker for a woman in rehab, she can at least experience New York daily life. Her old boyfriend, whom she left for his own good (she thought), now has a wealthy girlfriend, and Esme’s professional resume is way out of date, but she finds some solace with a friendly senior citizen with a lively back story that she meets at the dog park and with an attractive man who is also trying to work out his future plans, careerwise and with his wife in Cuba. Best of all, Esme finds that her temporary employer is a luxury shoe collector–Esme’s passion as well, though she can’t afford to buy the shoes–and that she doesn’t mind if Esme borrows them. Coincidentally, their feet are the same size. I don’t share their shoe passion, but I enjoyed this delightful story and was engaged by Esme and her new friends, not to mention her struggle to find what–and whom–she really wants in life.
In MEREDITH, ALONE by Claire Alexander, Meredith, age 39, is proud to have bought her own home in Glasgow, Scotland, but she never anticipated she wouldn’t be able to leave it for more than three years. In this deeply affecting debut novel, we don’t learn why until almost halfway through the book, which adds a measure of suspense. But this is really an in-depth study of the title character, whose life is far from empty, even though she is stuck at home. Meredith has a writing job she enjoys, a flair for baking, a precious cat, and a few individuals who become adept at understanding and supporting her–her sister, her longtime best friend, a young woman she meets in an online chat room, and a man from Holding Hands, an agency whose mission is to help “social recluses” move on with their lives. I agonized along with her as she strives to deal with her depression, her fears, and her desire to rejoin the world, despite a mother who still denigrates her and is incapable of parental love. The relative richness of Meredith’s life and the strides she slowly makes keep the story from being impossibly bleak, and I kept cheering for her through the entire book. An unusual and beautifully told portrait of a memorable woman. (November)
Margie, We just all need an author for comfort reads. Although, I have to admit some wedding scenes in books just drive me nuts, and I’m not fond of over-the-top ones. Actually, let’s face it, I’m not a fan of weddings in general. That’s probably why I just wore a suit and got married in the library meeting room. I was never interested in the whole “big white wedding” thing. And, these women who decide they have to be married by a certain age, and that’s a goal. I guess I just don’t get it.
I’m glad you enjoyed the books. I think I have an ARC of Iona Iverson someplace.
I too loved Claire Pooley’s second novel, IONA IVERSON’S RULES FOR COMMUTING. Like Margie her books make me happy. If you can find your ARC I think you will like this Lesa. Maybe after a few dark, sad books🙂
I haunt used bookshops and Friends of the Library sales shelves so I am reading an oldie, but goodie – A City of Strangers by Robert Barnard. And in my quest to learn more about the ethos of the American West, I’ m also reading Betsy Gaines Quammen’s American Zion which, so far, has been a history of the Mormon Church and coming up, how the Church and some of its members consider land use (Cliven Bundy, anyone?)
Meanwhile, I am doing this in the cool Pacific Northwest, where I have yet to drag my box fan out of the closet this year. An old time weather forecaster said in the past that summer starts here on July 11th – next Monday!
I hope you’re enjoying your weather, Emma Kaye! And, you’re right about Robert Barnard – oldies but goodies.
Good for you with reading about the American West!
I meant to say that I love the cover of the Lorac book and I’m glad they are printing them.
I am, too, Jeff, or I never would have read her.
Just finished Suite Spot and float Plan. Loved them and out local reference. Reading The Paris Apartment now so far I feel it is Mediocre crime will tell
Carol Jeanne, My friend, Kaye Barley (see below) wasn’t at all impressed with The Paris Apartment.
Wasn’t it fun to read those books with the local references?
Carol Jeanne. It is unusual for me to not like a book about anything to do with Paris, but i didn’t even bother finishing this one. There was not a single appealing character in this book.
Hello, Thursday Peeps.
Some days a person just needs a “feel good” book.
And Beth Moran’s JUST THE WAY YOU ARE hits all the right notes and was exactly the right book for me the day it found me. Books do that, don’t they? 😊
A novel about friendship, romance and learning to love yourself – just the way you are.
When Olivia Tennyson – or Ollie to her friends – was sixteen, she wrote a Dream List of all the things she wanted for her life, including a happy marriage and a family. But at twenty-nine, Ollie is single, living at home with her over-protective and manipulative mother, and is feeling like her dreams are getting further out of reach.
It’s time for a change.
It’s time to take matters into her own hands.
Without telling her mum, or more importantly, asking her permission, Ollie finds the perfect place to start her new life. End Cottage has a duck-egg blue front door, a garden that leads to acres of forest, and definitely counts as her dream home.
Now all Ollie has to do is complete the rest of her list and find out who she really is, before she can imagine any romance coming into her life. After all, how is she going to find her dream man in the middle of a forest…
Reading Beth Moran’s gorgeous novels makes every day better. Uplifting, smart, with unforgettable characters and gorgeous settings, it’s impossible not to fall in love with a Beth Moran story. Perfect for all fans of Jill Mansell, Julie Houston, and Jenny Colgan.
Praise for Beth Moran:
‘Life-affirming, joyful and tender.’ Zoe Folbigg
‘Every day is a perfect day to read this.’ Shari Low
‘A British author to watch.’ Publisher’s Weekly
And, my praise for Beth Moran on Saturday. My review is up then. I’m so glad you steered me to her book, Kaye. Thank you!
Just the Way You Are sounds great, and I just scored it for free on Kindle. Thanks, Kaye!
That’s how I read mine – free on Kindle after Kaye recommended it, Margie.
We got rain yesterday to give us a break from the heat, but we are paying for it today with high humidity. Over 44,000 still without power in Cincinnati. We are grateful to not be amongst them
Two books this week. I also read Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley. I enjoyed it but not as much as Margie. Perhaps everything worked out a little too neatly for all the characters?
I enjoyed my second book more-Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan. Nora is a single mother of two who writes scripts for The Romance Channel. She writes a screenplay about the disintegration of her marriage that is picked up by Hollywood. It is being filmed at her house over a period of three days. Leading man Leo decides he wants to stay a little longer and offers cash strapped Nora money to stay for a week. I got a little frustrated toward the end with how things played out, but I liked it enough to read it pretty much in one sitting. I think this was more the right book at the right time.
Happy Reading!
I’m going to try Nora Goes Off Script eventually, Sharon. We’ll see if it’s the right time for me.
I’m glad you have power! We had rain this morning, but obviously not as much as you did if people are without power.
We have week of 101s, plus a 105 in North Texas. I love the cover too! Maeve Binchey is my comfort author! And I have started a new one of hers,
Heart and Soul, not very far in it but I love the characters. Young doctor in a brand Cardiac Clinic, shy and very sweet and he has started courting.
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Also reading a true story, Frances Finkel and the Passenger Pigeon by D.M, Mahoney,. WWII ,Seal Rock Oregon. Frances loves to fly and she is experienced. Her younger brother died, swalllowed up by the ocean, she was very far a way when it happened but it seems that her mother blames her. Her mother left the family, now just Frances,, her father and younger brother left. The younger brother was thirteen but wanted a white kitten with ink black tips very much, Her father was confused, why would his teenage boy want a kitten so much. But Frances figured out how to find a kitten that matched his dreams. Great writing and lovely storyaround that!
Later on, Frances and her brother find a passenger pigeon that had been hurt. It was extinct but it matched the description in the bird book for a male. Nursed back to health, she let go and it returned. They buit a cage and trained as a homing pigeon and it timed very fast on its trips. Frances was Jewish but she named him Easter for when they found him, she refused to name him Passover. (More to come after I read more!
Carolee, I can see why Maeve Binchy is a comfort author. Her books would fit.
I hope that passenger pigeon does okay. I always worry about the animals in books.
It’s been relatively cool all week, but it’s heating up just in time for the weekend. The 4 wasn’t so hot, but it seemed very crowded.
This week I read:
The Corpse inthe Cabana by Shea Macleod; A mystery writing diva is murdered, and another writer decides to solve the mystery. Of course, eligible bachelors, including the detective start coming out of the woodwork. Maybe it’s best writers stay home most of the time.
War Bunny by Christopher St John; When an author tells you their book is a new Animal House, that’s never a good sign.
Murder in the Hamptons by Amy Garvey; A movie star is killed at a party celebrating his comeback. The police force everyone to stay in the house. Cask of Amontillado started to loom large in my mind by the end.
The Aquatic ape Hypothesis by Elaine Morgan; A book that tries to explain the theory that humans actually came from swamps. Unintnetionally hilarious, as every time the book asks why humans walk upright, or have subcutaneous fat, in my mind I could see the guy from TLC shouting “Aliens!”
Thank you, Glen, for those quick recaps that liven up my day.
The weather has been mild here in Santa Barbara, with the highs in the 70s, but in our two-story condo with no air conditioning, it gets quite warm at night upstairs in the summer, so nights can be uncomfortable. Downstairs it stays quite cool unless the temperatures get really high.
I finished three books on July 5th and 6th, and only one of them was a happy read.
I read THE GREAT GATSY by F. Scott Fitzgerald for my Classics Club List and I was disappointed. The writing was good but I did not enjoy reading about the characters or their rich, decadent lifestyle. Nevertheless, I am still glad I read it.
Shortly after that I read THE BOOKSHOP, a very short novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. Having never read anything by that author, I had no idea what to expect with this book. The cover led me to think this was a light-hearted book about a bookshop, and it wasn’t that at all. I did give it a high rating, because I think the author was expressing exactly what she wanted to, and did it well, but in the end it was depressing.
Between those two books I finished the second book in the Lady Hardcastle mystery series by T. E. Kinsey, IN THE MARKET FOR MURDER. Thank goodness that was a cheerful, upbeat read. Definitely not as realistic, but fun. Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, work on two cases, one a local case of theft, the other the murder of a disagreeable farmer in the area.
With many of E.C.R. Lorac’s books being reprinted recently, I think that there a lot of them available for me to read sometime. I have read one one of that author’s books so far, and I liked it a lot.
Tracy, I haven’t read the Lady Hardcastle mysteries. However, I read The Great Gatsby, and know enough about The Bookshop that I totally agree with you. Depressing endings.
I’m glad you found one that you liked!
Tracy, I just bought the latest book in the Lady Hardcastle series and hope to read it soon. She and Florence have remained delightfully entertaining so far. This is one of the few series that makes me cackle out loud while reading!
Hi Lesa,
Dashing in here at the last minute (it’s almost 11pm here) as I seem to have been busy all day. I had hoped to achieve so much reading and writing this week, but like most of the country I have been transfixed by events in Downing Street and Westminster. The Prime Minister’s refusal to resign, which persisted all day yesterday, made us draw many parallels between his bizarre behaviour and your former president’s refusal to leave the White House.
British people are, perhaps, a little more reserved than some Americans, but the tension here has been palpable, and when the announcement finally came just before 10am this morning, there was much rejoicing in Scotland. The BBC seems to have dug out the few people in the south of England who actually wanted Johnson to stay, then linked their interviews together to look like this was a nation in mourning or something. I can assure you that was definitely not the case (and not just in Scotland either. My friend in Cambridge was every bit as excited as we were.)
Apart from that, this morning Nancy and I went on another guided walk as part of the University of Aberdeen’s HAME festival. It was about the Architecture of Old Aberdeen, but the lady who leads the walks has so many stories about the people who lived and worked in these very old (some are 15th century) buildings that she makes it really interesting. Old Aberdeen is a wonderful, peaceful enclave to the north of what was once called ‘New Aberdeen’ (now the city centre). It has gracious old houses and lots of trees and gardens. It was a beautiful sunny day, and the walk ended in Seaton Park, beside the River Don, which comes down from the north and joins the Dee at the estuary.
Books;
I finished Katie Fforde’s ARTISTIC LICENCE but only just – it really was not one of her best. It felt like she had just thrown in all the usual tropes – Cotswold country town (where property prices are notoriously eye-watering but needless to say that’s not mentioned), broken heart, AGA, puppies, wealthy, bored friend who is only too thrilled to take impecunious heroine on wonderful all-expenses paid holiday, sexy but unreliable man, sexy but permanently furious man, new business that in the real world would last about 5 minutes, but which OF COURSE is a spectacular success – thanks largely to funds of that wealthy bored girlfriend…..
I do appreciate that all of these things are used by writers like Jenny Colgan, Jilly Cooper, etc – but they also create characters that work, and about whom we care. I found the characters in Artistic Licence either hugely irritating – eg Thea, the heroine, who I think is meant to come across as cutely scatty and spontaneous, but to me just seemed to be tremendously silly and predictable – or cardboard, as in the grumpy but dishy Ben, who just stomps around in a bad mood all the time, and whose behaviour – when he does declare himself to Thea (who apparently, even at the age of 35, thinks she is in love with someone after approximately ten minutes in their company) – is at times really bordering on the physically violent. She, need I tell you, interprets this as passion. Or if not that then she decides it’s all down to her own stupidity – ie she ‘must have asked for it’. I know this book was written in 2001, but really, that wasn’t that long ago!
Dreadful endorsement of gaslighting if you ask me. But as Fforde has at least 29 novels to her name so far, I very much doubt she will…
I’m still finishing up Christopher Fowler’s BOOK OF FORGOTTEN AUTHORS, and enjoying it very much. Fowler has such a witty approach, and serves up so many fascinating titbits about some of these writers.
And I am about to start OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout, which I’ve seen so many good reviews for.
On television I came across an old series called KINGDOM – Jeff, maybe you have seen it? It stars Stephen Fry as a country solicitor, Celia Imrie as his longstanding secretary, and Hermione Norris as his dipsomaniac sister. It’s quite gentle but has some serious themes. I’m enjoying it so far.
I’ll have to stop here and get to bed.
Have a good week all!
Rosemary, I’ve been watching everything about the Prime Minister, and I didn’t think it looked as if he was popular. I did find something on Twitter about it that I loved, and retweeted. Here’s what is was:
Larry the Cat
@Number10cat
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16h
Time to clarify a few things:
1. I’m not “Boris Johnson’s cat”
2. Like all Prime Ministers, he’s only a temporary resident of Downing Street
3. I live here permanently. When he finally goes, I stay
4. Yes, it’s all very embarrassing but it will be over soon
Way to go, Larry. If people don’t know, Larry is the cat at #10 Downing Street, NOT Boris Johnson’s cat, as he makes clear.
And, I agree with you. It does remind me of our former President who thinks he won the election. (sigh) You are much more civilized over there. Good for you!
I haven’t read that Lorac book, but I’ve enjoyed all the ones I’ve read. I’ll be curious to see what you think when you get around to it. My best friend loves Olive Kitteridge. I haven’t read it. I don’t often do literary.
Your walking tour sounds delightful!
Sending hugs, and thanks!
Rosemary, you we did see it. I’d forgotten it until you mentioned it. Very unusual role for Hermione Norris, I thought.
I forgot to say, I have one ECR Lorac on my shelf – FIRE IN THE THATCH. Has anyone read it?
Hey Lesa, We had 102 in North Carolina yesterday. i am currently reading The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James and Deep Water by Emma Bamford.
Probably 102 and humid. Take care of yourself, Katherine. I’ll be curious to see what you think of The Book of Cold Cases.
Tracy, I think everyone is disappointed by The Great Gatsby. The movies based on the book are even worse. Back in high school when we were forced to read it, everybody hated it.