It’s September 11th and the news has been full of hurricane and earthquake and bombs, so I’m selfishly looking for books and audiobooks this week that will calm anxiety, not add to it. I’m reading Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon for book club on Wednesday. I also plan to finish Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore and start The People We Hate at the Wedding this week.
I spent much of the weekend listening to Glass Houses by Louise Penny, narrated by Robert Bathurst, partly because I love the Armand Gamache series and partly because the library audiobook loan was going to expire today and I didn’t want to have to get back in line and wait to find out the ending.
Thirteenth in the series, Glass Houses doesn’t disappoint! While suspenseful, there is definitely something soothing about these books about the village of Three Pines in Quebec – “A place that no one finds unless they are lost,” the author says in a recorded conversation with the actor who took over the narration of the series (after the death of Ralph Cosham) at the end of the Recorded Books audio.
My audiobook listening this week will be finishing the urban fantasy I set aside to listen to Glass Houses…
Moon Over Soho is the second in the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch about a young mixed-race constable in London who becomes part of a top-secret, special police unit after seeing and interviewing a ghost who witnessed the murder currently under investigation. British urban fantasy…it can be gory, and the humor is mostly dark, but ghosts, river gods, vampires, etc. are not real, so it’s non-stressful! (Right?) Also, the audiobooks are narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, who’s a pleasure to listen to.
Hope everyone who is struggling today and this week will get through it and come out safely on the other side!
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (#IMWAYR) is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. It’s a place to meet up and share what you have been, are, and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever-growing TBR pile! This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at Book Date.
I love the Penny series too – glad to know the latest one doesn’t disappoint. I was afraid when Gamache retired that we’d lose some of the edge but not a bit of it
I am so behind on the Gamache series.
The Peter Grant series sounds good. I might add it to my TBR. Also, ghosts and vampires are totally non-stressful. 🙂
I’m enjoying the Peter Grant books! I never got into the first Dresden Files book by Jim Butcher, but I’ve also got Simon R. Green’s Something From the Nightside in paperback that I hope to try soon.