For the latest issue of the #JaneAusten and #Bronte newsletter, I list Austen and Bronte #podcasts for your listenig pleasure. If I'm missing any, let me know and I'll update the list!
In honor of International Women's Month and British Science Week, Chawton House presents the virtual event, "Ladies of Science" with a new 30 minute daily video about women in science during 18th and 19th C. The event costs £10 ($13) for the entire event and runs from March 11 to 16th. The videos will be available until end of 2024. For more information, visit
Working my way through The Bank by Bentley Little. I remember adding it to my TBR in 2020 because I read somewhere that Stephen King recommended it. I'm not sure if I find that surprising or fitting: The Bank is basically Needful Things, 30 years later. If I were King, I might frown at the obvious overlap, but it didn't seem to bother him. He even added a blurb.
Needful Things is MUCH better and it's not even close.
Book 17, 2024: Metroland by Julian Barnes. A reread of Barnes's first novel, from 1980, about two childhood friends growing up and moving apart, Paris, suburban London, and how love changes us. #books#AmReading@bookstadon
a truly outstanding crime thriller, highly recommended. The only reason it didn't get 5/5 is that the author committed a truly HEINOUS crime in the writing of the book - calling Crowded House an AUSSIE band! 😡🤬🤣 #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo@bookstodon#Aotearoa#Australia#Mystery#thriller
Hell, at twenty, he’d been ready to junk everything and start over too. But now, at sixty, he was less willing to throw things away that could be patched together and kept running for a few more months. He wanted to keep going forward, not stop and turn around and analyze the validity of decisions made and courses charted long ago.
NorCal #JASNA is offering a free virtual meeting on, “How Happy Are Jane Austen’s Endings Anyway?” The event is on March 24 and starts at 4:30 p.m. EST (1:30 p.m. PST). You can register here:
2/5 @thestorygraph for A Finer End, book 7 in the Kincaid & James series by Deborah Crombie. My 61st book of 2024, it dragged my average down to under 4.1/5 , thanks to my zero tolerance for mysticism & mumbo-jumbo in mysteries. I skmmed through it 90 minutes, only reading to keep up with developments in Gemma & Duncan's lives. I hope the series leaves the woo-woo behind now. #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#Mystery@bookstodon#TheStoryGraph
#AmReading A Finer End, book 7 in the Kincaid & James series by Deborah Crombieset in Glastonbury & apart from all the tedious mystic mumbo-jumbo, the eons-old fixation on a tiny hill reminded me a Kiwi acquaintance in the UK who, when a colleague said he was going mountain climbing on the weekend, asked "Have you imported some?" 😆 #ebooks#Mystery#Kobo@bookstodon
Back in the day my love for movies and my trivia knowledge combined to make me a walking IMDb. My movie watching has declined drastically since March 2013 (when Kid 1 entered the world) and it's hard for me to stay current. That won't stop me from enjoying Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman. I'm only on Chapter 2, but already loving the old-school Tinseltown intrigue. #Books#Movies#Oscars#Hollywood#FridayReads#AmReading#Bookstodon@bookstodon
This book truly has it all: feminist sci fi, compelling characters, a mysterious virus, a spy plot, a sweet romance, and anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist politics. I've also read Griffith's medieval historical fiction and it was so fun to see her tinkering with similar themes in a completely different setting. A sequel seems unlikely at this point, but I live in hope.