It is that time of the year when reading a good book is one of my favorite pastimes. Cuddled up on the couch with the winter sun shining in and a soft blanket wrapped around me, with a cup of hot chocolate waiting to cool so I can sip its richness, and a good book is hard to beat.
I just completed "The Chaperone" a novel that was enjoyed by most all of our bookclub group that met last night. Briefly it was the story of a woman who was hired to escort and chaperone a young, Louise Brooks, to New York City while she was taking dance lessons at the prestigious Denishawn Dance Studio. The setting was 1922 with subjects like homosexuality, birth control, women's rights, secrets and private lives all brought to the forefront in this engaging novel. Spanning the life of the "chaperone" it opened our eyes to just how brave these early women were.
I have started reading Tana French's "In the Woods"....can't give you a review because right now I am only on chapter two but it is a murder mystery set in Dublin, Ireland. One of the two detectives who is investigating the death of a young girl experienced such trauma as a child in the same woods that the murder victim was discovered that he cannot remember the incident. The two incidents are so similar that perhaps he will uncover, not only the current murder, but perhaps his past as well. I enjoy a good mystery and I am hoping I can recommend this when I am complete.
So what are some of your favorite reads and are you like me and love to snuggle up with a good book on these cold winter days? Share some of your favorites, love good recommendations.
"Going to the grocery store is just not a priority when the fate of a fictional character is hanging in the balance." Unknown
Until next time....
i'm not much of a reader these days. except for too , too, too many blogs... :)
ReplyDeletehi Deanna! I like to clean on a frozen winter's day. I just cleaned my living room from top to bottom. ahhh! That first book sounds intriguing. Your setting of reading sounds lovely. Hope you have an enjoyable weekend!
ReplyDeleteLovely little still life. The Chaperone sounds like a good read too.
ReplyDeleteI'm an avid reader - any time of year. It seems more so in the summer when I don't have so much school work. Although, I don't find much on t.v. to capture me, so I am reading more this winter. Your 1st book sounds intriguing & I noticed in your shot "Defending Jacob". That was recommended to me last summer & still have yet to read it. Right now I'm reading a book on my Kindle/Mac --- "Barefoot Season" by Susan Mallory......just a quick, romance book.
ReplyDeleteHappy reading!!
Oh, yes! I love a good read ... any time of the year! In winter I tend to read more serious things, historical fiction, biographies,etc. In summer, I like "beach reads", fun, easy-breezing novels. I do think I'm going to check out "The Chaperone", sounds good. I don't often read during the day, though ... just in the evening.
ReplyDeleteI'm an avid reader and I love to snuggle up with a good book every day of the year, I cannot let a day go by without reading. :)
ReplyDeleteRecently I've discovered Katie Fforde and Nicci French and I am reading one book after the other. ;)
Happy weekend. xo
My reading seems to go in spurts. I'll fly through 2 or 3 books in not time and then not pick up a book for weeks. The next book in my queue is "Gone Girl". Have you read it?
ReplyDeleteI'm like Cindy. I go in spurts. But I do like a good mystery so you'll have to give a review when you finish.
ReplyDeleteThe Chaperone sounds interesting. The most recent book I read was Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander MD. It was an account of a near death experience by a neurosurgeon who had previously doubted such accounts from his patients, then had one himself. Other than that I loved The Art of Racing in the Rain. I love a good book but find it hard to sit still lately.
ReplyDeleteI love to read. Most books I read these days are on my Kindle. But there is nothing like cracking open a good book.
ReplyDeleteLove to read. I haven't heard of either of these two, but will check them out.
ReplyDeleteReading one of the many joys of life, love crime novels as well but anything well written is all I need.
ReplyDeleteThis is my year of reading classics...I have to be careful not to re-read my favorites but to read new ones...I just finished Dracula by Bram Stocker...very, very, good. I just started The Tenet of Windefell by Anne Bronte yesterday....I am already hooked. I couldn't get into In the Woods but I loved her book The Likeness.I'm going to put The Chaperone on my list. Thanks.
ReplyDelete"The Chaperone" looks great. I recommend "Rules of Civility," which takes place a decade later and I enjoyed so much. I'm about to do a post -- not my review -- on a terrific book. Please stop by!
ReplyDeleteI love reading - summer or winter - fall or spring - I lean towards biographies and autobiographies and especially like journals and compilations of letters. 3,000 Mile Garden is wonderful - correspondence between an America and England, two gardeners and their wonderful letters. I've recently finished - again - The Gardening Letters by Elspeth Bradbury and Judy Maddocks - they live on opposite sides of Canada - after one of them moves away from the east coast - and they exchange funny and touching letters. The autobiography of Agatha Christie is terribly interesting, and Dearie by Julia Child is fun and shows a lot more about her than I first knew. Give me a well written book and I'm off on a journey.
ReplyDeleteI love Tana French books!!!
ReplyDeleteI do love to read but my problem is that I read right before I go to bed. So I only get a couple of pages in a night. So lets just say it takes me forever to get through a book. Even a really good book..
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