What are you reading?

Yesterday I started By the Waters of Babylon by Mesu Andrews. Her historical fiction is great!

I also have a stack of library books to read, skim, or take back. Let's hope for the first option!

I prefer to sit down with an Agatha Christie book than watch a TV adaptation.

Sad to report, but I see more charity shops are declining books...

I really enjoyed the Mesu Andrews book, and I'm starting another historical, this time by Angela Hunt.

In between, I read The Frost Gate by Hanna Sandvig, a fairytale retelling. It'll be released next week, I think, so I need to give my feedback about typos (today if possible). I don't get many sneak peeks these days with books because I don't want to commit to the time it takes, but I have still been signing up to help out Hanna.

My library books have been neglected... Guess I should check out the stack later today to see what's happening - I may still be interested in what snagged me while at the library, or I may not care anymore and they can go back.

Next weekend is the library book sale, so I'll get out some cash to donate and will see how many movies and books I'd like to bring home. I do have many extra books at home already, but I love to help them out!

Gamble by Felix Francis..

I am going to finish another library book today: it is an Inspector Banks novel. It is a well written crime novel and one I am enjoying reading. It is down to earth without fancy murder plots. Basic crime, I'd call it.

We finished a Star Trek novel recently, so I'm now reading Persuasion aloud to the teens. Hooray! My favourite Jane Austen novel. And I'll be strongly recommending the 1995 movie version when we finish (or get most of the way through, since I might be impatient to see it again).

I have plenty of print books to read, still haven't gotten to the neglected pile of library books, and started to reread an older ebook even though I hadn't finished the historical novel. Scattered reading to start the year...

A few years ago I purged nearly my entire collection of chemistry and math textbooks. I found nobody wants any older textbook. It was rather nostalgic though for me to review the collection, and I did save some.

I found I could discard old textbooks but not my collection of antique lawn sprinklers. Odd what people collect and save.

I had to tear out, then cut the binding off, the pages so that they could be recycled. Apparently, the glue in the binding is problematic.

Genius...too often it is largely a lonely life.

Please don't worry.


I do alright.

I finished reading "Bunny" by Mona Awad yesterday evening. It was a rollercoaster and dramatic story. I also read Mona Awad's "Rouge" recently. Both very good books. A score of 10/10.

For a quickish read I have found the "Leslie Charteris - The Sain versus Scotland Yard" in my pile of books to read, which I had forgotton about.