How many times have I watched the BBC Pride and Prejudice in the last two week? Three, maybe four. Why? I don’t know, but something about it suits my mood at the moment. Debate is raging in my WhatsApp groups (at my instigation of course) about who smoulders better – Darcy or Captain von Trapp, so I’ve watched the Sound of Music again too. What can I say. I’m a creature of habit. Meanwhile, the great Amelia Peabody project hit a snag last week – when we reached the point where Audible (in the UK at least) doesn’t have the audiobooks available, so while I’m working out a solution to that we’ve gone back to the start. I look forward to hearing Him Indoors thoughts as we go through a second time – so far the headline is “Evelyn is much more annoying the second time”.
Read:
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
Christmas at Sandcastle Cottage by Christina Jones
Venetia by Georgette Heyer
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
What Were We Thinking by Carlos Lozada
America Dreamer by Adriana Herrera
Love is a Rogue by Leonora Bell
Started:
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny*
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutano*
He’s Not My Boyfriend by Jackie Lau
Still reading:
The Moor by Laurie R King
Bonus photo: Our local excitement on Thursday night – as the electricity substation went up in flames. We had a power outage for a bit on the night – but more of a problem the next day when something else got overloaded and we were without power for 6 hours. Luckily the advantage of a daytime power cut is that you can read a book in it, which is much harder work if it’s candle light!
An * next to a book title indicates that it came from NetGalley. ** indicates it was an advance copy from a source other than NetGalley
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 
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