Friday reads: to Mantlemass

 

   Sidebar lists are still not functioning so 'Current Reading' is now quite out of date. I've long since left 1913 Devon (The Wanderers), passed through the Himalayas in 1935 (Thin Air), and the Chilterns in 1937 (Country Matters), and now I'm in the Sussex Weald in Tudor times with the first of Barbara Willard's Mantlemass books, The Lark and the Laurel, which is off to a very good start.

    If you've a moment, do tell us what you're reading this weekend.

Comments

[Dorothy Goudie]

Still plodding my way through Hannah Kent's The Good People.

[Cornflower]

I'm ashamed to say I still have Hannah Kent's first book, Burial Rites, waiting to be read, and The Good People is already out in paperback!

[Joan Kyler]

Based on your post a short time ago, I bought and started The Lark and the Laurel. Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of moving house and haven't been able to find time to read. We move on Feb. 13th and I think I deserve a few days of intense reading after that!

[Cornflower]

I hope all goes smoothly with the move, Joan, and yes reading time will be well-deserved once you're settled in.

[CC]

Just finished "Bury Your Dead"... (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6). Enjoyed greatly.

[Cornflower]

I've been meaning to start that series for ages!

[Alexandra Macgregor]

We had a long weekend here in Australia so I managed to read Last Christmas In Paris, Perfume from Provence and a Kitchen in the Hills... seems like alot but they are all short books... the French theme is that we are visiting France and Scotland in July this year.. it will be my first time in France so doing alot of reading on that topic. I am also a good way through Mrs M about Governor and Elizabeth Macquarie one of the Australia's first Governors - its a fictional account of her relationship with a convict architect to help build alot of the civic buildings in Sydney.

[Cornflower]

You've had a productive weekend, Alexandra!
I hope you have a wonderful trip when it comes.

[Dark Puss]

I am reading Underground Overground by Andrew Martin. No Wombles are involved.

[Cornflower]

Pity!

[Missi]

I am reading Jane Austen at Home and am loving it. Also, an MC Beaton mystery and a book about Georgian England. I have Queen Victoria's Matchmaking on hold at the library and that looks great too. Happy Monday!

[Cornflower]

That all sounds great, Missi - happy Monday to you too!

[Toffeeapple]

Currently reading 'Vera' by von Arnim, feeling slightly queasy about it too so can only read chapter by chapter. I don't have a good feeling about it...

[Cornflower]

I haven't read it, but I see it is described as "a sinister thriller", and is reputedly the inspiration for "Rebecca" (hence your feeling, no doubt).

[Fran]

A mixture over the past few days; Mothering Sunday by Graham Smith and The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, both library ebooks along with an old paperback; The High Girders by John Prebble, an account of the 19th century Tay Bridge disaster. I like to have variety in my reading!

[Cornflower]

Very varied!

[Anne]

Just finished The Expendable Man from Persephone Books. Wonder if others have read it. Really though provoking

[Cornflower]

I haven't read it, Anne, but I shall add it to my wish list.
For anyone else not already familiar with it, here are the details: http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/the-expendable-man.html