Last week’s reading plan turned out to be too ambitious. Here’s this week’s plan:
Audiobooks
Death and the Lit Chick by G. M. Malliet (Audio)
Second in the St. Just mystery series (which are cozy mysteries in the same way that psychopaths are charming), this one has to do with a group of mystery authors all staying in an Edinburgh castle for a writers’ conference. Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary is there as a reluctant speaker for one of the sessions and gets recruited, even more reluctantly, to help solve the case when one of the conference attendees gets murdered. He has fallen in love at first sight, you see, and would rather be wooing the object of his affection than interviewing her as a murder suspect. Witty and a little edgy, with plenty of humor related to mystery writers and wannabes, Death and the Lit Chick is a fun audiobook — light, but mentally engaging.
Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
So I had already listened to Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty — which I realized once my hold came in and I downloaded it and started listening to it. Other library holds came flooding in, all at the same time, of course, including The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling, but I started with Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand because I waited the longest for it and because she’s a very popular author in my Massachusetts library.
I’m an hour or so into it, and I’m not sure but that I might have had enough of rich people and locals on islands for a while! This island is St. John in the Caribbean instead of Nantucket, but rich people are the same everywhere. So far, the book has several storylines and characters going and they’re about to come together in a crash of dysfunctional families and money. I may not finish the audiobook because it doesn’t fit my current mood. It’s me, not the book.
In Print
It’s Monday night by the time I’ve got this posted, but I’d still love to hear what you’re reading this week!
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.
My reading plans are always too ambitious! I have The Hunting Party on my TBR.
Death and the Lit Chick looks interesting. Hope you have fun with your books this week!