Some really good stuff read this week – and I held a pre-December audit of where I am with regard to my reading challenges for the year. Expect to here more about that anon!
Read:
Life, Death and Cellos by Isabel Rogers
Bold as Brass by Isabel Rogers
Steamed Open by Barbara Ross
Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld
First World War Poets by Alan Judd
The Residence by Kate Andersen Brower
Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell
Holidays with the Wongs epilogue by Jackie Lau
Cosmoknights by Hannah Templar
Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood
Started:
Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen
Sick as a Parrot by Liz Evans
Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz*
Still reading:
The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole
Murder on Mustique by Anne Glenconner*
Still not counting, still don’t care
Bonus photo: I found this blue plaque for Edward Murrow just up the road from work on a lunchtime stroll. I don’t know how I haven’t noticed it before. If you’ve never heard of him, he was a legendary war correspondent for CBS during World War 2 and then went on to be instrumental in bringing about the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy (as in McCarthyism and the Red Scare). Here’s his wikipedia page, but I also reccomend the film Goodnight and Good Luck (named for his famous sign off) about his work on McCarthy – David Strathairn was nominated for an Oscar for playing Murrow and which also has George Clooney in it – here’s the trailer.
An * next to a book title indicates that it came from NetGalley. ** indicates it was an advance copy from a source other than NetGalley
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