On Your Bookshelf

[Pippedydeadeye]

Has she changed her name?

[Lily]

Yes - I think because she's gone into a different genre. I did mean to ask her.

[Lola]

Thanks, Lily. I’ve just ordered that. Might as well for 99p

[Pippedydeadeye]

I wondered if she’d divorced, I know they were having problems.

[Kenickie]

I hope she's ok.

[Lily]

They are still together and she's doing well.

[Lily]

For fans of Andrew Taylor: a lot of his books are currently a couple of quid on Kindle.

[Pippedydeadeye]

I finished Where The Crawdads Sing this afternoon. It was beautiful and lovely but also weirdly a bit too neat. I skimmed most of the poetry.

[Lily]

I got an Amanda Prowse on KU - The Light in the Hallway - and I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying it. Not my normal stuff at all but it's great. I am interspersing it with A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley who I adore.

[Turtle Bean]

Thanks, Lily. I like Andrew Taylor. I got a couple of the Lydmouth crime series.

[sally maclennane]

I finished Where The Crawdads Sing this afternoon. It was beautiful and lovely but also weirdly a bit too neat. I skimmed most of the poetry.

I did too, and some of the longer paragraphs about science I find science stuff really boring.

[Ella77]

I always skip poetry in novels.

[olive]

I always skip poetry too and I’m pretty sure I skimmed over the science stuff too.

[Pippedydeadeye]

The last poem was pretty crucial though.

I’m going to read Affinity by Sarah Waters next. Feeling quite lucky to work in a library with a fiction collection right now.

[indigo]

I’m going to read Affinity by Sarah Waters next. Feeling quite lucky to work in a library with a fiction collection right now.

Are you reading this for the first time, Pip? It's great; I love Sarah Waters.

[Pippedydeadeye]

Yes, first time!

[indigo]

Oooh! Exciting!

[Ella77]

I haven't started it yet, so it might be terrible, but there's a book out today called Catherine House that they say will appeal to fans of The Secret History. Big shoes to fill. I must have ordered it a few months ago on somebody's recommendation, but I can't remember whose.

During your three years at Catherine House, you will have no contact with those in the outside world.

You will not leave the grounds during your time at the college.

If we believe you have wandered from the path of learning, you may be sent to the tower.

Each of our students has been selected as someone who belongs here at Catherine. You will give to Catherine, and Catherine will give to you. We will not let each other down.

Sorry if you try it and it's utter pants .

[Kenickie]

I just read the new Anne Tyler. It was reliably good, but too short.

[Squirrel]

That sounds interesting Ella. I loved The Secret History.