Guess who has a cold? It’s ME. Doh. But I’m hoping that it’ll be out of the way before I see SHANIA TWAIN next Tuesday. I’m very excited about that. First in line for tickets, gotta see that show for sure. (Full marks if you know that Shania reference.) Anyway, I hope you’re having a great weekend – and here’s a book, a link, and a blog post to help you along.
1.) The book – Stuart Turton’s The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is now out in paperback, so I thought I’d let you know if you were waiting for a less heavy edition to read! (And you can check out the ‘Tea or Books?’ episode where Rachel and I discussed it alongside Agatha Christie.)
2.) The link – is sneakily also a blog, but it’s a piece in the Guardian about Sophie Baggott’s blog, reading 200 books by women from different countries across the world. Presumably not all different countries, since I don’t think there are 200 countries.
3.) The blog post – check out JacquiWine’s excellent review of Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple. If you’ve not read it yet – please do!
Oh, I hope you’re better in time for your concert, I know you’ve been looking forward to it for a long time!
And I am dying to read Evelyn Hardcastle. I’m second in line for the library’s ebook, so it should just be a couple of weeks. I was tempted to buy it online but I feel like once I read it, I won’t want to keep it — and I own so many books already! Plus I have so many reading challenges and readalongs at the moment, I should just be patient. Not my strong point!
And if I remember correctly there are 195 countries (depending on whether you count Taiwan as a sovereign state), so, you’re right, not 200. But pretty close.
Thank you so much for including a link to my Dorothy Whipple review. It’s a wonderful book, so I’m hoping a few of our readers will be encouraged to give it a go (that’s if they haven’t read it already). Wishing you a speedy recovery in time for Tuesday’s Shania fest. Have fun!
I am inDEED looking forward to reading The Seven Lives of Evelyn Hardcastle. I just checked my library for it the other day and to my extreme sorrow, all the copies were checked out. I’ve put an e-hold on it, though! My day is coming!