Happy Wednesday my bookish friends! I am gearing up for our first Halloween in a neighborhood since 1991 - yikes! We haven't had trick-or-treaters in so long so we have been buying candy on each of our grocery trips. Decorating was fun.
Loki had a dental procedure on Friday and he took forever to get back to normal. We were worried because he was supposed to bounce back the next day. He wouldn't eat or drink for 2 days. Here he is making my life easy in the kitchen...my foot makes a decent pillow.
📚 Book Chat 📚
I finished The Elements by John Boyne. A page turner of a novel and I am glad I didn't discover these individual stories until he put them all together. Unbeknownst to me, these four stories Air, Fire, Earth and Water were previously published as novellas. Putting them all together links up certain characters throughout each "Element."
I liked the settings in Ireland, especially in the first story titled Water where a woman took time to heal and evaluate her life on a remote island off Ireland's west coast . The stories are disturbing but not graphic. Triggers for rape, spousal abuse and revenge are present. The writing is fantastic.
Thank you Jackie at Junkboat Travels for alerting me to another Graham Norton book. I am reading Frankie and may be caught up with Norton's fiction.
📚Upcoming 📚
I played along with the Classic Club Spin which I listed HERE and my book will be The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
My next nonfiction is The Art Thief by Michael Finkel and eventually a buddy read with Susan at The Cue Card.
What is on your reading agenda for the rest of the month?
Linking up with:
Readerbuzz for Sunday Salon
Joy for British Isles Friday
