Recent acquisition:
📖 Wales: The First Place by Jan Morris & Paul Wakefield
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Recent acquisition:
📖 Wales: The First Place by Jan Morris & Paul Wakefield
pickIt took me a while to get into this one, and I eventually needed to enlist the aid of the audiobook, which was helpful in getting a sense for the Welsh pronunciations anyway, but in the end, I quite enjoyed this novel. It's definitely dated, written in 1976 with gender roles to match, but the mythology and the emotional truth of the relationships makes up for some of my grouchy feelings about the importance of learning homemaking for a teen girl.
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1. To paraphrase Homer Simpson, we paid our taxes over a year ago. (Seriously, though, our taxes for this year are long done.)
2. Wales. (I assume it will be about more once I get into it, but for now, it's very much just about Wales and how American teens in the mid-1970s feel about living there.)
In the shadows of the Aberystwyth Castle, an amazing site we visited a few years ago
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pickAnother great listen! A modern take on vampire lore, it drew me in and kept my attention rapt. There isn‘t a lot of mystery or shock value here - it‘s easy to connect all the pieces and figure out what‘s happening - but it was dark and emotional and very different than I was expecting. 🌟🌟🌟🌟
pickWhat a page turner!
pickA curious story that combines wonderfully ascerbic humour from Lydia, a London journalist, who returns to her Welsh cottage with her put upon friend Betty, with lovely descriptive writing. Lydia + Betty mingle with the locals and enjoy the various relationships that allow Lydia scope for her barbs. There is also a strange supernatural thread + commentary by a curious absent character, Angharad, which perhaps added little. Very enjoyable ⬇️
pickSoft pick. I liked the mystery surrounding the reality show, but it was much less character focussed than the first novel. Ffion and Leo were a big focus in book 1 as was Ffion‘s family and that was absent here, so while it works as a mystery/procedural it‘s not what I expected from this installment.
pickBetter than the first! I really liked Georgina and her relationship with Ffion. Kinda frustrated with Leo & Ffion. But the supporting characters were great and Macintosh does a great job making the setting come to life.
