The good news is that I have about half a book to go to complete all my challenges for 2024. The icing on the cake is that it'll make my ten-best list.
And yet. I posted earlier that I'd like to clear the decks heading into 2025, so having finished one hanging book, I started... three more!
That is
not the way. And it probably means that I abandon the Trollope novel I'm reading as a false start, but I can live with that. As long as I finish everything else! I've got eight days until my Christmas company comes; I can't get any substantive reading done when they're here.
That said:
Quote:
Originally Posted by pdurrant
And I followed that by A Civil Contract, by Georgette Heyer. A romance which centres Very good indeed. |
Quote:
Originally Posted by CRussel
One of my favourites -- a delightful Heyer.
|
OK, I bit. I also started
An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski, a bildungsroman about growing up under Hitler. I'm liking it. And,
The Reef Girl by Zane Grey as an audiobook which was recommended to me by a neighbor. It's awful. I've only ever read
Riders of the Purple Sage by him and I did like that. But this is horribly written to the extent that when I read a review suggesting that Grey's wife finished it/wrote it (it was posthumously published and about 40 years later) I thought that was plausible. But I'll keep listening for now, as it kills the time when I've got insomnia.