Here's my (long-yay) weekend reading pile. I am hoping to (finally) finish the Susan Hill book of essays. I have been meandering my way through, but I think I am ready to finish the last few essays. It was last month's prompt. Merry Hall, this month's prompt, will also be dipped into this weekend, but it has been staying in my gym locker (poor Beverley Nichols hates being cooped up there, he would have prefer to be outside in a garden). And I have already started my list of possibilities for next month's prompt!
Light of Paris has been my comfort read and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I hope to finish it as well. I love both the heroines-they are very likable and I see many habits and shortcomings and personality traits in myself as I do in them. I am going to have to find something equally escapist as a follow up to it.
Do you see Edith Wharton there? Undine Spragg has been languishing (and fuming for being so ignored) on my night table. I started it (I am embarrassed to say) at the start of the year. I didn't want to set it aside, as I was really loving the book (if not Undine so much) but I just was not managing to squeeze it in. Then earlier this week I grabbed it and tucked it into my bookbag and it has been going with me everywhere this week. I find Undine maddening, but I have to say I am also sort of mesmerized by her. She is so full of herself.
Charlotte Bingham's memoir is an easy breezy read and also a library book which will have to go back in just a week so I hope to make a very big dent in it this weekend (and then move on to the second book of her memoirs--also a library book and also due soon (no pressure there).
Kristin Harmel's The Room on Rue Amelie has floated to the (well bottom in the picture) top of the pile--I have to start it this weekend in order to finish it by book club night.
And drum roll please, I have chosen D.E. Stevenson's Miss Buncle's Book for my Persephone readathon book! I had pretty much decided on it before I read all your comments, but now I am sure I made a happy choice! It seems well regarded and just the ticket for a long summer weekend. Although the readathon is next weekend I am getting a head start now.
I'd say that is a pretty good weekend lineup. I have a graphic novel as well, and there will be a chance of a movie or two. It is promising (threatening more like) to be very hot and sticky so I will be wherever I can find a cool place to read. I hope you are also enjoying a long weekend, or at least a very bookish one, too!