Happy Super Tuesday! If you’re in a Super Tuesday state – go vote! This blog post will still be here when you get back. Or you can read it while in line at the polls.
Now on to the rest of the post.
Our two top selling books in the gift shop where I work (at least, until the new Little Women movie was released this past December) are Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey and Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City. The most commented on book in our gift shop? Devil in the White City. Now, if you’ve read it, you understand. The story is gripping. It was a book that I could not read after dark because H. H. Holmes was terrifying. (Considering most of my reading time is right before bed, this was a bit of a hinderance.)
I had heard a couple of days ago that Erik Larson was coming out with a new book – this time about Churchill and the London Blitz. The Splendid and the Vile not only sounds interesting – it happens to be one of the book choices for March.
But I could not make up my mind this month. There’s also a new Josie Silver book. Now, I know I wasn’t totally enthralled with One Day in December, but the issues I had were with the outline of the story and less so with the writing style – so I’m giving her a second chance. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is about parallel lives: the life where Lydia is awake and her fiance is dead and the life where Lydia is actually asleep and her fiance is alive. Sounds a little bit like Sliding Doors but our protagonist is aware of the different lives.
Both books are in my box this month and headed my way – so I’ll update you when I have formed an opinion on them.
In the meantime, I am overdue for a post on Things in Jars, but I promise you, it is coming soon. (February was a crazy hectic month, for which my blog became somewhat neglected, sadly.)
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