It's Christmas week. Be merry.

 Monday

 

The weekend was fine. The beading Christmas party was .... okay. Only five of us including myself so half didn't show up and we were done by 3pm. 

 They're not meeting up on Wednesday and we're not meeting up on Saturday, being Christmas Eve (of course) and the coffee shop closes at noon.

 

 Otherwise, I read this weekend. I started and finished THE WOMAN IN THE LIBRARY for my readathon pick though Sarah has been sick and not online in the past few days so (kinda) a wasted effort for that but I did wind up getting another book read on the year.

 Currently reading THE INHERITANCE by Charles Finch. 10th of 14 in series featuring Charles Lenox, a gentleman sleuth, in 1860s London.

 

 Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow schoolmate, Gerald Leigh, but when he looks into the matter he finds that his friend has suddenly disappeared. As boys they had shared a secret: a bequest from a mysterious benefactor had smoothed Leigh’s way into the world after the death of his father. Lenox, already with a passionate interest in detective work, made discovering the benefactor's identity his first case – but was never able to solve it. Now, years later, Leigh has been the recipient of a second, even more generous bequest. Is it from the same anonymous sponsor? Or is the money poisoned by ulterior motives? Leigh’s disappearance suggests the latter, and as Lenox tries, desperately, to save his friend’s life, he’s forced into confrontations with both the most dangerous of east end gangs and the far more genteel denizens of the illustrious Royal Society. When someone close to the bequest dies, Lenox must finally delve deep into the past to uncover at last the identity of the person who is either his friend’s savior – or his lethal enemy.

Published 2016; 305 pages.

I've decided that one of my reading goals in 2023 is to work on the several mystery series that I've left languishing. 

 Tonight, no plans. Home, Ryker, Steve, cleanup, read. That's about it.

 

 Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster