What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Currently Reading
This morning, I started listening to The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish (2020), a novel of psychological suspense set in London. To Jamie’s horror, his commuting buddy, Kit, has disappeared and the police are asking suspiciously if he was the last person to see Kit alive. Just as the police began questioning Jamie, the audio stopped working on my Hoopla download! That leaves me in suspense for hours!
The cover of The Steam Whistle Theatre Company by Vivian French (2019) caught my eye and I was intrigued to see it was about a Victorian theatrical company. Some of the characters remind me of Joan Aiken’s Wolves Chronicles. I made it one of my 20 Books of Summer.
Just Finished
A forthcoming Read Christie selection is One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940) and Dame Agatha begins by reminding us that we are all afraid of going to the dentist, even Hercule Poirot! But who would actually kill his dentist? The replacement might be worse! (Just kidding, I have always had good dentists.)
I haven’t read a lot of Anne Tyler but I was intrigued by a review of her new book, Three Days in June (2025) and read it in one evening in July. The first of the three days is dreadful: Gail loses her job as an Assistant Headmistress because her boss thinks she has no people skills and the new head wants to bring her own second-in-command*, her ex-husband turns up to stay (unasked) with a foster cat, and their daughter is afraid her fiancé has cheated on her – but the wedding is two days away!
Next Up
My library is choosing a book for a Community Read and I am leading the committee. I have sampled or read several possibilities and wonder if Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (2003) might be a good choice. Maybe too violent for some of my readers? But he is a Boston author, a former trustee of the Boston Public Library, and very friendly when he came to an Avon/Morrow Sales Conference years ago.
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Wood was going to be my Paris in July book but what if it does not take place in Paris after all? Stay tuned! 
* There is no way a private school could keep a secret like hiring a new headmistress from a senior member of staff. Search committees would be formed, applicants would have to visit the school, interview questions drafted, trustees involved, let alone nonstop gossip about who is likely to get the job and how it will affect everyone involved. But I am willing to allow this impossibility for the sake of the plot.
This morning, I started listening to The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish (2020), a novel of psychological suspense set in London. To Jamie’s horror, his commuting buddy, Kit, has disappeared and the police are asking suspiciously if he was the last person to see Kit alive. Just as the police began questioning Jamie, the audio stopped working on my Hoopla download! That leaves me in suspense for hours!
A forthcoming Read Christie selection is One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940) and Dame Agatha begins by reminding us that we are all afraid of going to the dentist, even Hercule Poirot! But who would actually kill his dentist? The replacement might be worse! (Just kidding, I have always had good dentists.)
My library is choosing a book for a Community Read and I am leading the committee. I have sampled or read several possibilities and wonder if Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (2003) might be a good choice. Maybe too violent for some of my readers? But he is a Boston author, a former trustee of the Boston Public Library, and very friendly when he came to an Avon/Morrow Sales Conference years ago.
* There is no way a private school could keep a secret like hiring a new headmistress from a senior member of staff. Search committees would be formed, applicants would have to visit the school, interview questions drafted, trustees involved, let alone nonstop gossip about who is likely to get the job and how it will affect everyone involved. But I am willing to allow this impossibility for the sake of the plot.
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