Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all!
With September in full swing, it’s been a gothic-ish mystery sort of week for me, starting with Carol Goodman’s latest, Return to Wyldcliffe Heights, in which a young editorial assistant (with a somewhat cloudy past) at a small publishing house snags a dream job as assistant to a famous and famously reclusive author of a 90s It Novel, the twentieth century’s answer to Jane Eyre, complete with fire and madwoman in the attic. But nothing at Wyldcliffe is what it seems….
After that, it felt like time for some comfort reads, so I went back to Charlotte MacLeod’s Sarah Kelling books, set in late 70s or early 80s Boston, beginning with the first in the series, The Family Vault, in which the opening of the family mausoleum reveals the decaying body of a missing nightclub singer, setting Sarah on an accidental life of crime-solving. I followed that up with Book II in the series, The Withdrawing Room, in which Sarah turns her Beacon Hill mansion into a boarding house, thus allowing for the introduction of more hilarious side characters– and, of course, more dead bodies.
But now I’m longing something new to read! Tell me, what should I read next? And what have you been reading this week?
Well, I have a feeling you’ve read what I read this week… Which was “The Girl from Greenwich Street.” Seriously Lauren, you have done what few are able to do in true crime/historical fiction, I felt that all the people were real people not just mechanisms to solve an unsolved mystery. What’s more, you captured the city of New York in 1800. I felt like it was it’s own character, and I kept thinking that in that regard it reminded me of “The Alienist.” So, that’s going to be a hard act to follow… So I’m probably just going to start my book club book for October which is called October “Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland” by Eddie Lenihan. I don’t have any expectations, but some of the bad reviews of it on Goodreads are hilarious…
I finished “The Seventh Veil of Salome” – it was quite good, but I felt the ending a little rushed and…well, kinda lazy. I also wanted way more time spent with Salome. Ah well!
Next for me is rereading “Heir to Sevenwaters.” I am not sure how the romance will equal the one in “Daughter of the Forest” – but I really, really hope it does! I am in the mood for a ‘be still my beating heart’ type of romance!
I’m currently reading the latest Helen Simonson, a story of unusual women’s friendship post ww2 while I wait for my October read from the library, Rewitched, to arrive! Rowan and I had our first pumpkin muffins and pumpkin chai of the season this weekend and it was so lovely! Love autumn 🍂