These are the books I’m reading in 2010.
☆ Good ☆☆ Really good ☆☆☆ Really, really good
★ Don’t give this one houseroom No star Meh
- Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer ☆
- Why Kill the Butler by Georgette Heyer ☆
- The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre ☆☆
- The Private Patient by P. D. James
- The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd ☆
- Starlight by Andrew M. Greeley ★
- Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson ☆☆
- A Writer’s Life by Scott Young ☆
- Exit lines by Joan Barfoot ☆
- Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan ☆
- The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel ☆☆
- The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
- The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
- Above and Beyond: The Canadians’ War in the Air, 1939-45 by Spencer Dunmore ☆☆
- Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain ☆
- The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys ☆☆☆
- number9dream by David Mitchell ☆☆☆
- The Virgin’s Knot by Holly Payne ☆☆☆
- Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris ☆☆
- Molly: Child Number 583 by Mary Keenan ☆☆☆
- The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears ☆☆☆
- Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction by Martin Gilbert ☆☆☆
Bishop’s Man? Bishop’s Man?
I found too many backstories very confusing and the love affair frustratingly unexplored.
I did love the expose of the cacklick clerick connivings – well done, the damage control particularly.
He’s not a novelist IMHO but a good journalist.
Tessa: Do read “Come Thou Tortoise” by Jessica Grant. Best book I’ve read in oh, 6 months.
Georgette Heyer? Did I read her in high school? worth another look I’d say.
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Yep, I really did enjoy it, as much for the context and characters as for the writing. MacIntyre came to talk to a group I belong to and he said this is the second in a trilogy he’s writing, so I’m thinking if I can get hold of the first one, the backstories might be less confusing. Also, in response to my question, he admitted that he’s no wiser as to the relationship between the sister and her father, but it is the subject of the new book he’s writing.
I will add “Come Thou Tortoise” to my wish list, but remember I’m not going to be able to get it until 2011, alas!
I adored Heyer’s Regency romances while I was in high school, so I was thrilled to see them in Borders, when we went to Buffalo after Christmas. Apparently her entire backlist is being re-issued, although I’ve not seen them here yet. I already have all the historical novels, but she also wrote a series of ‘cozies,’ detective novels set in country houses a la Agatha Christie, so I bought a few to read while we were there. They’re light, fluffy stuff, but impeccable writing, which is no less than I would expect from her.
PS and also February by Lisa Moore – just brill.
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I have a couple of Lisa Moores in the line-up. Not sure if February is among them. If not, will add to the wishlist. Right now I’m mostly ploughing through loaners, so that I can clear them and get on with all the books I bought myself. (Which may be why there are not too many “really enjoyed” in the list so far.)