Friday Reads 3/15/2024

It's Friday. At least that's what the calendar tells me. I realize we only lost an hour with the time change, but my internal calendar is all messed up. Doesn't matter. What matters is books!

The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez - I am not moving through this very quickly, due to it being my lunchtime Kindle read and my not having any lunches in the library so far this week. I'm still only 22% through. I'm really liking it though. It's giving me vibes, but I haven't identified what book it's giving my vibes of.

Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson - I'm listening to this on audio. It's super fun. In the first in this series, the narrator, Ernest Cunningham, is telling the story of a family reunion where there were a bunch of deaths. In this one, Ernest Cunningham is a celebrated author from that book and is now expected to write a fiction mystery. He's on a train trip that is also a meeting of the Australian Mystery Writers Conference and he is a guest speaker. He's stressing about coming up with a fiction mystery, when he is presented with a real life mystery on this train trip. It's pretty good.

Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney - I started this yesterday. Straight off I had problems with it because it's written as if Jane is escaping from Lowood School and the tyranny of Mr. Brocklehurst. In the original, Mr. Brocklehurst had long been booted from the school and Jane was a teacher under a much better headmaster. ANYWAY, Jane is delivered to Thornfield Hall and all the servants are weird. The house is beautiful outside, but inside it is dirty and cobwebby and dark. The story is told in two voices: Jane's and Bertha's. In this story, Bertha isn't crazy. She's been locked in the attic by Mr. Rochester because she wouldn't turn over her inheritance. Mr. Rochester is a cruel man. I like Bertha so far. Her parts are the most engaging. I am still deciding if I'm going to continue.

The Collectors edited by A.S. King - This short story collection turned up at the library today, so I'll probably start reading these stories in between other things.

I need to read some more things off my shelves. I'm far behind my goal for that, but none of the books on this list meet that criteria. Oy!