Hello April. Welcome! In your honor I am tipping my bookish hat to you and my monthly prompt is Rain . . . or . . .
Shine! I fully expect this to be a month of rain showers, but I hope not too many. Just enough to green things up a bit. If I pick a quick or short read I am hoping to choose a book from both piles, but I am starting with the 'rain' pile (and as we are forecast rain this week, I might as well).
The rain pile has several mysteries and crime novels as they seem to be particularly atmospheric. I have the next (must get back to her) Daisy Dalrymple novel by Carola Dunn, a Maigret novel by Georges Simenon, Mary Stewart is always good, a Florentine-set mystery by Christobel Kent (the floods of the 60s), a book by Kate Fenton and Rumer Godden with its Indian-hopefully monsoon backsdrop and a recent acquisition of a novel by Anna Freeman set in those foggy London days just after the war that I wrote about not so long ago.
As for the sunshine stories, an Australian crime novel by Anna Snoekstra, Michelle Paver's first book of a trilogy that begins in Jamaica, a novel by Jane Thynne set during a stifling summer, another Maigret book set in the dog days of summer of August, a Joe Sandilands mystery in the heat of India and another summer setting story by Eve Chase, who I read and very much enjoyed last year (a good Gothic novel to boot). I was thinking my choices would be a stretch and while maybe some of the settings are, I think I am more or less in the spirit of the prompt!
And choosing is always part of the fun. I shall be perusing and dipping into the rain pile tonight!