reading catch-up

[coughingbear]

Somewhat at random, and largely based on looking at my Kindle organised by Most Recent First, so going backwards, and not including anything read for work or research:

Time for Tea and Time For Fevers by Erica H. Smith - Blog here, with links to sample chapters and to buy the books. Time travel, lots of great immersed experience in the past, and

Comments

[callmemadam]

I haven't read Boys in Summer but I plan to now!

We have a lot of overlapping reading tastes (surprise). I also read a Mary Stewart last month and I've enjoyed the Death in... books. I liked Berlin best. Trisha Ashley is often just what I need: rather chicklitty but well written. And I love Heyer.

OTOH I don't care for Diana Wynne Jones (it's the genre, I think) and dislike Victoria Coren Mitchell so much I couldn't possibly read anything she wrote.

[coughingbear]

Not surprise at all - and now I think of it, I believe I found Trisha Ashley through you. I think the more recent ones have got more chicklitty and with fewer mad families, though I love Grumps and his museum.

I think you will like Boys of Summer! (Though it is of course fantasy.)

[coughingbear]

'The silence often of purr innocence persuades when speaking fails.'

[white_hart]

I often find myself saying "Yes, but today is Tuesday" in my head too.

[coughingbear]

It is a surprisingly useful phrase.

[debodacious]

It is indeed - one I use too. I loved the Armitage stories when I was a child but I remember finding the illustrations disconcerting. I was quite freaked out by the warlocks requisitioning their house and putting Mr A in a birdcage.

[coughingbear]

And then freezing him!

[auntyros]

Re. Friday's Child, yes, absolutely. Isn't that the point of the conversation at the end about the baby which isn't suitable for Ferdy's ears?

[coughingbear]

I think so but not everyone agrees - there are also mentions early in the book of Sherry kissing her goodnight at her bedroom door. It came up in the tor.com discussion IIRC. I'll try and find a link but am not very awake yet.