For me, the month of March makes me look toward spring. As I write this the climbing hydrangea which adorns the front of my house is in bud. The foliage of the bluebells has erupted from the soil in my garden, heralding the beginning of new life.
On the subject of new life, I have a new grandchild who is due to be born in March. As I am sure you can imagine, I am hugely excited and I cannot wait to meet him and give him a cuddle.
So, my heart and head is full of 'new things' and this might be a good month to read some debut authors. Do you have any favourites? What is the best debut novel you have read?
Here are a few of the books that I am hoping to read this month.
It has been a good month for reading and I have worked through several books this month. However, I am a little behind with reviewing but those reviews will be up in the next few days.
This month also saw the launch of a new and regular feature on the blog. Author, Anne Goodwin was the first of my castaways on Desert Island Books. You can read about the titles that Anne would take to a desert island by clicking here.
Anyhow, without further ado, here is a list of all the books I read this month.
Books I Have Read
The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith - This is a lovely book and you will be able to read my review of this on publication day on 1st March.
Three Rival Sisters by Marie-Louise Gagneur - An interesting French translation of two novellas. As well as the titular story, the volume contains a second one, Atonement. My review will be going up very soon.
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith - The second in the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency. I have read them before but enjoyed this reread.
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart - I was not a fan of this particular book. It promised lots but it was a bit too quirky for my taste.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck - This was my book group choice this month and my favourite read of February.
Shadow of the Highway by Deborah Swift - The first in The Highway Trilogy I enjoyed this and will be reading the second book. My review of this will be up very soon.
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - I have wanted to read this for ages but I was disappointed by it.
There are some really great new releases due out in March. Here are 10 which have caught my eye and I cannot wait to get stuck in.
The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
I have been lucky enough to be given an advance copy of this book and have already read it. I can tell you it's a fantastic book and I loved it. My full review will be up on 1st March, which is publication day so please stop by the blog to read my review.
An indie musician reeling from tragedy reconnects with her father on a week-long cruise in this tale of grief, fame, and love from bestselling author Jennifer E. Smith.
Just after the sudden death of her mother - her most devoted fan - and weeks before the launch of her high-stakes second album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing. Greta's career is suddenly in jeopardy - the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always warned her about.
Months later, Greta - still heartbroken and very much adrift - reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the Alaskan cruise her parents had booked to celebrate their fortieth anniversary. It could be their last chance to heal old wounds in the wake of shared loss. But the trip will also prove to be a voyage of discovery for them both, and for Ben Wilder, a charming historian who is struggling with a major upheaval in his own life.
In this unlikeliest of places - at sea and far from the packed venues where she usually plays - Greta must finally confront the heartbreak she's suffered, the family hurts that run deep, and how to find her voice again.
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mum, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, the mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town where Carol spent the summer before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone.
But as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother's spirit. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliffsides, delightful residents, and - of course - delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life.
And then Carol appears, healthy and sun-tanned... and thirty years old. Katy doesn't understand what is happening, or how - all she can focus on is that somehow, impossibly, she has her mother back. Over the course of one Italian summer, Katy gets to know Carol, not as her mother, but as the young woman who came before.
But can we ever truly know our parents? Soon Katy must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue.
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
Some wars will be fought at home . . .
Two years into the Second World War, and German U-boats are frequently disrupting Britain’s supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio programme called The Kitchen Front launches a new cooking contest – and the grand prize is a job as the programme’s first-ever female co-host.
For young widow Audrey, winning the competition could be a chance to pay off her husband’s debts and keep a roof over her children’s heads. However, her estranged sister, Gwendoline, is equally set on success even if her own kitchen maid, Nell, is competing against her. And then there is Zelda, a London-trained chef desperate to succeed in a male-dominated profession – and harbouring a secret that will change everything . . .
The Perfect Crime - Ed. by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski
Around the world in 22 murders…
MURDER, BLACKMAIL, REVENGE
From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York – twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories.
Featuring Oyinkan Braithwaite, Abir Mukherjee, S.A. Cosby, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, J.P. Pomare, Sheena Kamal, Vaseem Khan, Sulari Gentill, Nelson George, Rachel Howzell Hall, John Vercher, Sanjida Kay, Amer Anwar, Henry Chang, Nadine Matheson, Mike Phillips, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Felicia Yap, Thomas King, Imran Mahmood, David Heska Wanbli Weiden and Walter Mosley.
Secrets of the Tree House by Leinad Platz
The life of 15-Year-Old Dustin Douglas changes horribly when his best friend Jimmy Becker confesses of murdering an old man -- and then is accused of killing a classmate. As he tries to help his friend, Dustin's world gets upended when a local girl is murdered. His Father -- the well-liked Pastor -- is arrested for her death, and Dustin's mother decides to sell the Family home. Dustin's only refuge is the Tree House his Father built--a magical place that brings calm and peace. Mysteriously, Dustin's mother abandons him and the family house burns down leaving him homeless, and his cherished Tree House is gone as well. Miraculously, Dustin discovers his magical Tree House has been both spared and relocated. As he sits in the purplish glow of the stain-glass window in his Tree House, Dustin is swept into...lucid dreams, that begin to unravel the lies--and brings light to the truth. Published in paperback on 12th March.
Dear Inmate by Lisa Boyle
Massachusetts, 1854. The anti-foreigner American Party, better known as the "Know-Nothings," take power throughout the state. The city of Lowell elects Leonard Ward, a member of the party, as its mayor. Suddenly the "Know-Nothings" are everywhere. And they're going after the Irish.
Rosaleen is ready to fight back. Emboldened by strange conspiracies about the Catholic Church, violent mobs and corrupt government officials are making life nearly unbearable for her people. Lowell's newly formed police department is committed to ridding the streets of "Irish filth," beating and arresting anyone who crosses them. When Rosaleen uncovers a horrific truth, it will test her in ways she could never have imagined.
The Awakenings by Sarah Maine
Yorkshire, 1890. Having lost her father and brothers in tragic circumstances, Olwen Malkon is forced to leave her childhood home to live with her uncle's family. In his chill vicarage, however, she fears that she is also losing her mind, as strange dreams take her into the life of Ælfwyn, a woman from a distant past whose fate is overshadowed by menace and betrayal.
In the grip of these afflictions, Olwen finds sympathy with the local doctor, John Osbourne, who is intrigued by her case. Suspecting darker undercurrents are at work, John comes into conflict with Olwen's family, who dismiss her as a hysteric and, when he seeks to protect her, with the law.
As the dreams intensify, danger awaits them both. But when they begin to mirror reality, she and John start to suspect that it is these visions of the past which hold the answers . . .
Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives by Genevieve Jenner
So begins the title story of Genevieve Jenner's debut short story collection, a ground-breaking anthology of magical realist food writing.
A Russian countess finds herself making borscht for her socialist Parisian neighbours; unknown office colleagues secretly exchange lunchtime delicacies and recipes via the work fridge; steak is cooked at midnight on a Friday to get around Catholic proscriptions; and a thrilling sexual awakening descends into a metaphor of tired sandwiches and squashed fruit.
Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives is a book that the sexiest celebrity chef you can think of would take to read in bed, cackling in private recognition-but not just because it's about the role of food at the centre of our lives. It's also about the place of women in the world, the messiness of life, and the joy of snatched moments in the midst of chaos. With a wit and frankness that combines vulnerability and strength, all wrapped up in a package of stories that speak right to the soul, Genevieve Jenner writes about real and imaginary lives with poignance and authenticity.
Missing Presumed Murdered by Dick Kirby
Murders in any form, and the more gruesome the better, hold a morbid fascination to the British public but never more so than when the bodies of the victims are never found. Aside from the lack of closure for relatives and friends, this factor creates problems for police and prosecutors and has macabre appeal for the public. Muriel McKay, wife of a senior News of the World Executive was kidnapped in 1969. Although her body, believed to have been fed to pigs, was never found, the perpetrators were convicted. The same fate was suffered by the business partner of a Polish farmer. James Camb murdered a glamorous actress feeding her to sharks but this did not stop women flocking to see him in court. John Haigh confessed to disposing of his nine victims in acid. Again, his trial was a sell-out. Dick Kirby, former Scotland Yard detective turned best-selling crime writer has unearthed' a fascinating collection of disappearances such as the dismemberment of a gay man's wife who had threatened to expose him in the 1950's. Later, when a woman's head was discovered near his home, he confessed only to find that it dated from Roman times. These and numerous other cases make Missing, Presumed Murdered a riveting, if grisly, read.
A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear
September, 1942. Jo Hardy, an Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire when she has the unnerving experience of someone shooting at her aircraft. A few days later she hears that another ferry pilot has been killed when her aircraft crashed in the same area of Kent. Although the death has been attributed to ‘pilot error’, Jo is convinced there is a link between the two incidents.
Jo takes her suspicions to Maisie Dobbs and while Maisie wants to find out why someone appears to want to take down much-needed pilots, she finds it is part of a much larger operation involving Eleanor Roosevelt, the American president’s First Lady. To protect Eleanor’s life – and possibly the safety of everyone in London – Maisie must quickly uncover the connection.
Hello and welcome to this week's Tuesday Teaser. The place where we take a sneaky peek at a book that has caught my eye.
This week we are looking at Secrets of the Lavender Girls by Kate Thompson.
Kate is an award winning journalist with years of experience working in print media, and is published in several newspapers and magazines.
She is the author of several other novels including Secrets of the Singer Girls ( you can read my review by clicking here. ) Secrets of the Lavender Girls is the second in her Home Front series. Other novels include The Wedding Girls, Secrets of the Sewing Bee and The Stepney Doorstep Society, all of which are on my 'To Read' list.
She now lives in Sunbury with her husband, two young sons and a soppy Jack Russell called Twinkle.
The Blurb
Stratford, 1943.
World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls, the workers at the Yardley cosmetics factory in East London, there are even more challenges on the home front.
Esther, newly married, is learning to juggle life as a working woman with her duties as a wife and homemaker. And she must find a way to help her adopted family on the Shoot, who are battling their own hidden demons . . .
Headstrong Patsy, a new recruit at the Yardley factory, has a double life that takes her from the East End lipstick belt by day to the stage in the West End at night. But will she be able to keep her secrets hidden from her controlling mother, Queenie?
For bubbly Lou, a forbidden love forces her to choose between family loyalty and a chance at true happiness. Can she be brave enough to forge her own path in the chaos of a war?
One thing is certain: the Lavender Girls need one another more than ever if they are going to survive . . .
In the Beginning...
Prologue - Wednesday 20th June 1917
Queen Alexandra's open landau slides along the wide elegant thoroughfares of Knightsbridge, past the cheering crowds waving paper and silk roses in celebration of the annual Rose Day procession. Thousands have been bought by the time Her Majesty's carriage sets out from Marlborough House, raising funds for the sick and needy.
Their petals drift through the blue skies, getting caught in the smart hats of the gentry. They coat men, women and children up from the provinces, and skitter through the London parks. Smiling flower sellers in bonnets throng the crowds, pinning roses to sailors on leave, children's straw boaters and washerwomen's aprons. Hawkers on bikes sell ices and sarsaparilla to keep the onlookers cool. It is quite the spectacle of pomp and pageantry.
But further east, through the city, past the Aldgate pump and into the guts of Whitechapel, a very different procession winds its way through the cobbled quarters. Here the streets are narrow and the buildings blackened. The stench of horseshit curls through the hot air on a gusting westerly. Every window has its blinds pulled closed, even in the middle of the day.
Residents of Poplar and the surrounding boroughs have taken to the streets in their thousands, filling the highways, in some places so thick it slows the progress of the fifteen tiny coffins, each one covered in a blanket of pink and white blossom.
This part of the East End has never been so quiet. Even the endlessly toiling docks have stopped work for the day. Grief has wrapped its bony fingers around the whole community.
Usually it's trucks, loaded down with goods, which rattle their way from the docks along the East India Dock Road. Today, it's bodies.
I am already completely hooked, just from reading this short beginning. Are you already a fan of Kate Thompson?
For those of you who are not familiar with Anne's work, she is the author ofSugar and Snails, Underneath and Matilda Windsor is Coming Home. You can read my reviews of two of these titles by clicking on the title links.
She is also the author of a book of prize winning short stories, Becoming Someone.
Do hop over to her website where sheis kindly offering a free e-copy of her other collection of short stories, Somebody's Daughter, to anyone who subscribes to her website Annethology
So, Anne, how do you think you would get on if you were stranded on a desert island?
I doubt I’d thrive on a desert island. Although I made a double bed years ago in woodwork class, I’m not very practical. I’d struggle to build a shelter and catch my own food. Plus, although content with my own company, solitary confinement could tip me over the edge. These eight books might prevent me going mad.
Just William by Richmal Crompton
As a child, I loved the Just William books, although I was never as adventurous as the eponymous hero, who would probably have looked down on me as I wasn’t middle-class and I wasn’t a boy. Richmal Crompton’s series is far superior to the other classics of my 60's childhood – such as Enid Blyton’s Famous Five – because, through the humour, we can both identify with William and see the error of his ways.
Middlemarch by George Eliot
With time to kill on my desert island, I’m sure I’d enjoy George Eliot’s Middlemarch much more than when I studied it for English A-level. I reckon I’m finally old enough to get the humour, the pathos and the politics, and to appreciate the patience of Mrs Blair, who had to teach it to a bunch of uncultured teens.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Another classic I’d like to take with me, which I read unprompted in my slightly younger teens, is Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. I want this less for the story of the orphaned girl who won’t to be beaten than for reminders of the Peak District, where I lead a guided walk around the settings believed to have inspired the novel. (Yup, that’s Derbyshire, not Yorkshire, the better-known Brontë territory!)
Third-Class Ticket by Heather Wood
I travelled a lot in my 20's, 30's and 40's; although my feet have now stopped itching, trapped on that island, I might get nostalgic for those times. I’ve chosen a non-fiction book, Third-Class Ticket by Heather Wood, as a reminder of the five months I spent on the Indian subcontinent, staying in rural villages as well as seeing the famous sites. This is a moving account of a journey made in 1969 by forty Bengalis who, being poor and uneducated, never expected to leave their village, and the Western woman who had the privilege of accompanying them for 15,000 kilometres over seven months.
The Examined LIfe by Stephen Grosz
My travels punctuated my career as a clinical psychologist in mental health services in the NHS. The book I’ve selected as a memento of that part of my life was actually published shortly after I had taken early retirement: The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz is a collection of psychoanalytic case studies that read like short stories. There’s so much wisdom in these pieces, I could reread them a thousand times and never get bored.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
One novel that almost as illuminating and compassionate about how we humans delude ourselves is Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. At the heart of the novel is a premise familiar from schmaltzy movies: Enid Lambert wants her three adult children to spend one last Christmas in the family home. Yet the reader soon gathers that Enid wants the impossible: the family she and her husband, Alfred, have fashioned is beyond repair. It’s the perfect antidote to loneliness in solitude: feeling lonely among our nearest and dearest is far worse.
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Another novel I find particularly psychologically astute is Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, about a woman whose teenage son commits a terrible crime. To what extent is Eva culpable in how she’s raised him? How much are the family dynamics shaped by trans-generational trauma? One of the strengths of this novel is how, although (we think) we know the ending from the beginning, the tension is electric.
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
I wasn’t sure if I should ask for a bumper notebook for my final choice for all the masterpieces I’m bound to write on my island retreat. If that’s not allowed, or it’s already there, I’ll have another doorstopper novel: Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son. After nearly 600 pages in the Democratic Republic of North Korea, I’ll be grateful to be marooned far from cruel dictatorships or any human society at all. A love story, a thriller, a dystopian political satire, a heart-warming tale of the endurance of the human spirit or a trauma narrative; for me, it’s about the wasteland of a world where the individual is divorced from his/her own story and fiction is an instrument of control.
What a fantastic selection of books, and I would definitely take some of those along if I were stranded. Thank you Anne for sharing your choices and for being the first author to launch this series of blog posts.
If you are an author and would be interested in taking part then please let me know.
I am incredibly excited to tell you about a new, and regular feature which will be appearing on the blog.
Desert Island Books will highlight various authors, imagining they are stranded on a desert island. However, unusually, they can plan for this and take just eight books with them. They have no idea how long they will be there. They may be rescued tomorrow, or in a decade, or never, so choosing the correct books is vital as they may need to be read over and over.
I am delighted to tell you that my first author to be stranded is Anne Goodwin and her time on the island will begin tomorrow, so I really hope you will visit the blog to see which books she has chosen.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I am a big fan of Anne's and I am honoured that she is the first of my guests to wash up on the island. I read and reviewed her book, Sugar and Snails, in November 2015 and more recently as part of a blog tour. You can read my review by clicking here.
Additionally, my review of her fabulous latest novel, Matilida Windsor is Coming Home can be read by clicking here.
Are you an author who would like to take a trip to the island and feature on the blog? If so, I would love to hear from you. You can email me at: leftontheshelf1@gmail.com.
At fifteen, she made a life-changing decision. Thirty years on, it’s time to make another.
When Diana escaped her misfit childhood, she thought she’d chosen the easier path. But the past lingers on, etched beneath her skin, and life won’t be worth living if her secret gets out.
As an adult, she’s kept other people at a distance... until Simon sweeps in on a cloud of promise and possibility. But his work is taking him to Cairo, the city that transformed her life. She’ll lose Simon if she doesn’t join him. She’ll lose herself if she does.
Sugar and Snails charts Diana’s unusual journey, revealing the scars from her fight to be true to herself. A triumphant mid-life coming-of-age story about bridging the gap between who we are and who we feel we ought to be.
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I first read Sugar and Spice in 2015 and enjoyed it very much. So, I was delighted when the author asked me to be part of the blog tour, and I joined without a moments hesitation.
This book is actually quite difficult to review without giving the plot away so forgive me if I sound a little vague at times. Suffice to say that the plot is original and surprising and Ms Goodwin confronts the issues which face her protagonist with sensitivity and insight.
She is also an excellent storyteller and the plot unfolds deftly in her hands. She has diligently done her research in putting together this fine novel.
Diana is a strong and complex character and it was not obvious to me as a reader what her secret is. Her story is gripping and I loved the way I came to a gradual realisation concerning her refusal to return to Cairo. In many novels I can second guess what is coming but with this novel the author unravels for us the issues and concerns that Diana confronts in a way that kept me reading in order to discover what was going on.
Ultimately, this is a story of self discovery which challenges the reader to consider issues of equality and the way in which individuals are conventionalised by the society in which they live. It also deals with the enormity of dealing with decisions that we make when we are young and the impact that has on the rest of our lives.
Well done to Anne Goodwin for producing such a readable and challenging book.
If you would like to read my review of the author's most recent novel, Matilda Windsor is Coming Home, you can do so by clicking here.
ISBN: 978 1908600479
Publisher: Inspired Quill
No. of pages: 342 (paperback)
About the Author:
Anne Goodwin writes entertaining fiction about identity, mental health and social justice. She is the author of three novels and a short story collection published by small independent press, Inspired Quill. Her debut novel, Sugar and Snails, was shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize. Her new novel, Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home, is inspired by her previous incarnation as a clinical psychologist in a long-stay psychiatric hospital.
Subscribers to her newsletter can download a free e-book of prize-winning short stories at her website.
Heavesdon Manor in Hertfordshire is one of those grey-stone country houses that wouldn't look out of place in an expensive Jane Austen adaptation. From looking at Google Maps, it's about equidistant between North West London and Essex, and therefore optimally inconvenient for both sides of the family.
I was almost disappointed when Mum and Dad said I could stay at theirs afterwards. Living in grimy East London has its perks, one of the best ones being a perfect 'get out of family events scot-free' card. But I knew I couldn't miss this. Not the longed-for-fairy-tale wedding of my first cousin Abigail Galinski.
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Tamsyn Rutman is at yet another wedding, for yet another cousin. She wouldn't mind - the food's pretty good, the location is fabulous and there's a moderately famous singer crooning away - but what is a Jewish wedding if not the perfect opportunity for the bride to do a bit of matchmaking on behalf of her single, workaholic cousin? Tamsyn's not at the table with her parents and her family, she's sitting next to Ari Marshall.
Ari is everything Tamsyn doesn't want for herself, and everything her family want for her. Stubbornly determined not to fall into the trap of someone else's happily ever after, Tamsyn decides to focus on work, and while interviewing London's hottest new chef, finds herself being swept off her feet . . . by someone her family definitely wouldn't approve of.
But somehow, Ari and Tamsyn keep crossing paths, and she's about to find out that in love, and in life, it's not always easy to run away from who you really are...
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I enjoyed reading this book very much. It was fun to read this lighthearted contemporary romance which we follow through the eyes of the main character, Tamsyn.
As the title suggests, Tamsyn is a Jewish woman whose mother is constantly arranging for her to 'accidentally' encounter suitable Jewish men. The story begins with her being sat with one such man at a table during her cousin's wedding reception, and from here we witness her rebellion at the confines which she considers her culture places her.
I found the story to be a little predictable but in a positive way. I enjoyed the comfort of this scenario. I was not expecting any big surprises. There was more a sense of accompanying Tamsyn on her journey of self-discovery, even if the reader probably foresees her destination long before the character does.
I have read many books which have a Jewish connection, and whilst this is a fun read, it does not shy away from the acts that have happened to Jews in the past. Centuries of persecution and antisemitism have left their mark, and this contextualises the novel and the attitudes of the characters.
However, the author has accomplished this with a light and sensitive hand and, it by no means dominates the book. I think anyone who enjoys entertaining women's fiction will enjoy this book.
ISBN: 978 1529366921
Publisher: Coronet
No. of Pages: 320 (paperback)
About the Author:
Amber Crewe is the alter-ego of Nicole Burstein, who lives in North London with her family and multiple bichon frises. In the past, Nicole has worked as a gallery attendant at the Natural History Museum, a bookseller for Waterstones, and used to present the traffic and travel news on various radio stations including LBC and local BBC Radio. Her current day job is in Customer Support for a financial technology company. She completed her Creative Writing Masters with Birkbeck College in 2011 and has been trying to make the writing career happen ever since.
In her spare time, Nicole is a keen embroiderer and consumer of pop culture (in other words, she does cross-stitch whilst binge watching series on Netflix). She has a total of three Blue Peter badges, has an unending appetite for sourdough bread, and has never seen any Die Hard films. When the world gets too much, she watches YouTube videos of rollercoasters to relax.
February - the month of St. Valentine, and when our thoughts turn to love and romance.
I am, of course, talking about the love above all others - books. Every now and then it is nice to read a little love and romance, but I am talking about the love of books. That wonderful feeling when you open up a brand new volume... that creak in the spine you get and the smell of newly printed pages. Also, stumbling upon an old, sometimes tatty, book that has clearly been loved by someone before you. That gorgeously musty smell and uneven page edges.
Is it the same with an e-reader? I think not. I love my kindle but it doesn't give me the same reading experience. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Here are the books that I am looking forward to reading this month.
I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness by Clare Vaye Watkins
