Happy Monday. I would say I’m braced for another heatwave, but to be honest it feels like it has started already. It was really quite hot in London on Saturday, albeit not in the 30s, and it was so hot at home yesterday I was glad we hadn’t gone to the MotoGP at Silverstone – even though the races were exciting – because I would have been absolutely sure to get sunburn and a dehydration headache. Anyway, more excitement coming up this week with at least one more theatre trip, hopefully the air con will be working there. Anyway, on the reading front, it was a fairly ok week. I’m making fast progress down the conference purchases when I’m at home – the beauty of middle grade books is that they don’t take long to read – which is making me feel less bad about the enormous state of the pile in general.
Read:
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley
Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk by Travis Baldree
The Wednesday Witches Club by Sarah Beth Durst
Helen in Musical Comedy by Linda Graeme
Death at the Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh
The Murder on the Enriqueta by Molly Thynne
Started:
The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead
Helen, Television Dancer by Linda Graeme
Still reading:
Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
It’s offers post writing o’clock again so there were a few Kindle purchases. No actual books though
Bonus picture: The Strand and its little gaggle of theatres. I often forget that although the West End is (mostly) clustered around Shaftesbury Avenue, these three plus the Lyceum, the Duchess, the Novello, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the Aldwych are all very close together too. And on Saturday night it seemed like most of them had finished their shows just in time for their patrons to be clogging the pavement as we were walking back to Euston…
*next to a book 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) 