Proud to share citizenship with someone like Louise Penny. The little nuggets of beauty hidden throughout her crime novels just blow me away — "Clara‘s portrait wasn‘t simply of an angry old woman. She had in fact painted the Virgin Mary. Elderly. Abandoned by a world weary and wary of miracles. A world too busy to notice the stone rolled back.” ??????

I'd been waiting for this on audio for the past two weeks and just couldn't take it any longer ... so I drove to another library and found a hard copy. 🙊

"Abandoned by a world weary and wary of miracles. A world too busy to notice a stone rolled back; it had moved on to other wonders."

Louise Penny you are wonderful.

I've been really enjoying the family dramas of late; this one is no exception. I quite liked getting to know these characters, and was sad to find my time with them over.

My favorite part about this book was the narrator, and that's really only because I could hear Kathleen Wilhoite as Liz Danes the whole time. I liked this one more than Semple's This One Is Mine, but probably not as much as Bernadette.

I had enjoyed Where'd You Go Bernadette, and thought I would give Semple's first a try, but I wasn't as taken with this one. None of the characters were especially likable, and I basically spent the whole book diagnosing each with their own mental illness. I should probably have had the DSM-V sitting next to me as I read!

I'm going to try Today Will Be Different next; hopefully it will be better!

Loved this book — the series is without a doubt getting better the deeper into it you go! But I still would recommend reading from book one; the characters progress and get richer in each successive book!

Listening to more Gamache 🇨🇦

I'd heard that the Chief Inspector Gamache books only get better the further one progresses through the series, but I don't think I fully believed until I neared the end of this book. I found myself shaking my head throughout the last two chapters, wondering how Louise Penny could do this to me. Now I'm impatiently awaiting the next!

Unrelated: my 18 month old took this photo & I conveniently found it on my phone when I went to post a review 😆

Girls are napping, time to read!

Next on the agenda 👆🏽

Just finished The Girl on the Train. I don't read many thrillers, though I'm not sure why; I quite enjoy the suspense that keeps me turning pages and reading long after bedtime. I enjoyed this story, and liked the way it was told, even though I did predict the ending about halfway through.