Tuesday 31 January 2023

Book Reviews: What are you reading?

It's fun. A lot of bloggers are reading, especially here in the dead of winter. We've lots of snow, and we are -14 C. this morning. The weekend is going to be -22 C. I bet get the last of my shovelling done! Hopefully we will have sunshine today.

I am so sad. Our virtual book club is no longer going to be hosted by Barrie Summy. Being socially anxious, my friends are all online these days. This was a nice way to do a book club for me. It used to be the first Wednesday of the month, but people get busy, as they tend to do. 

📚 I just finished The IT Girl. I had trouble with it at first, but settled in to it. It is so far removed from my university experience. It was tough actually liking the victim, and feeling an attachment to the characters. I waited something like 6 months for it to be available from the library. I'd about given up, but I ended up getting involved in the plot and characters. [READ THE FIRST CHAPTER HERE.]



🎁I have read A World of Curiosities. You'll have to understand how we work out Christmas pressies. I order what I want, JB orders books he wants. Some packages stay in the Amazon cardboard, but most of them we wrapped for one another. This happens over a few weeks and by the time Christmas rolls around, we forget what is in the packages! Ain't old age grand?!


📚 Louise Penny is a famous Canadian writer, and I read 99 pages the first night. I had to put the book down, as I wanted to savour it. It's like communing with an old friend at bedtime, the setting, and the characters appeal to me. I have read the entire series and I quite like the mythical Three Pines. In the meantime, we were watching Three Pines on Amazon Prime video.  It is so non-Hollywood that it truly appeals to me.

“He's not your run of the mill male detective that we've gotten so used to: the haunted and tortured man who drinks too much, and has a terrible relationship with his wife or is divorced. There's none of that. Playing a character like Gamache is a privilege.”  

13 comments:

Tom said...

...I wish that I enjoyed reading.

William Kendall said...

Very different from each other.

Far Side of Fifty said...

I just finished a fantastic book Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, ordered the sequal fly away to read. Book club later this week is a book called Karolina Dalca Dark Eyes a Vampire novel so forgettable that I will have to skim it again before book club on Thursday. My book club is also online and I prefer it that way:) Presently I am reading a Minnesota Author William Kent Kruger Northwest Angle and really enjoying it...it is the book club pick for the March meeting.

Barbara Rogers said...

Sorry your book club flew away with the wind. I don't think I'll try The It Girl. But Curiousity was definitely one of my Holiday presents to myself! And like you, I had to try to make it last just a bit longer, but then just binged to the ending one day. I've joined Prime just to see Three Pines, and it was certainly a good series...but needs to be extended for another season. Wish I knew someone to influence the powers of Prime TV. Keep warm and stay safe out there!

Elephant's Child said...

Reading is an education, and escape, comfort and a delight isn't it? Sometimes all in the one book.

RedPat said...

I have enjoyed the Three Pines books too.

Cloudia said...

Thank you for these great tips! Yes, I like to be at home too

eileeninmd said...

Hello,
I have read both of these books. Louise Penny's books are always a favorite.
Take care, enjoy your day and have a great week ahead.

Karen said...

I'm on to my fourth volume by Louise Penney. My daughter wants me to watch the Three Pines series on the tv, but I don't like the actors they chose for some of the principal characters. Come on now, a young, slim Myrna? I don't think so.

The Furry Gnome said...

I enjoy Loise Penny too.

Red said...

I just finished Bill Bryson's the body and am now reading Visual Intelligence by Amy E. Herman. Both are good reads. Now I need to find some good fiction.

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

I'd love to find time to read the Penny book. It sounds wonderful. Sorry about your virtual book club disbanding.

Jeanie said...

I adore Louise Penny's books. I have yet to get this one and yes, I'll hold it to savor when I do. She's just fabulous!