Tuesday
Reading update:
The second scavenger hunt prompt for September is "Judge a book by its cover". These were the options I had found:
Right now I'm reading two of them. I've tried a few others and they were too stupid to continue. The first I'm reading is the next-in-series for me, CAUGHT IN TIME by Julie McElwain. 3rd of 5 in Kendra Donvan series.
October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel—back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since that’s not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in Lancashire. Their journey takes them through Yorkshire, a region whose breathtaking beauty masks a simmering violence brought on by the Industrial Revolution, which pits mill owner against worker. When Kendra and the Duke encounter a band of Luddites on a lonely, fog-shrouded road, the Duke informs the authorities in the nearby village of East Dingleford that mischief may have been done at the local mill. However, it isn’t just mischief but murder that is discovered, when the body of the mill manager, Mr. Stone, is found brutally bludgeoned to death in his office. The Constable is certain the radical-minded Luddites committed the murder. One look at the crime scene and Kendra knows they did not, prompting the Duke to shock the locals by volunteering their services to catch the real killer. Joined by lover Alec and Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly, Kendra must sort through the puzzle of Stone’s rather unsavory life, picking apart alibies and dissecting carefully created deceptions from a growing list of suspects. As a special agent for the FBI, Kendra thought she’d encountered every kind of evil. But when another, even more vicious murder rocks East Dingleford, Kendra realizes that they’re dealing with a stone-cold killer—one who has a shocking secret that he will do anything to protect.
Published 2018; 451 pages. All the covers are beautiful and it was the cover of the first one that caught my attention.
Also reading THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME TRAVEL by Kate Mascarenhas. Stand alone.
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project—and future of time travel—in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team—erasing her contributions from history. Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother, Granny Bee, was one of the pioneers, though no one will tell her more. But when Bee receives a mysterious newspaper clipping from the future reporting the murder of an unidentified woman, Ruby becomes obsessed: could it be Bee? Who would want her dead? And most importantly of all: can her murder be stopped?
Published 2018; 336 pages. The cover, when viewed up close, looks like embroidery. From the library.
I've not really intentionally thinking of hosting readathons other than Spy vs Spy September, Nostalgia November, and Mid-Winter HistMyst. But the ideas keep coming. Last night on sprints on Lee's channel, they were talking about Halloween/spooky readathons for October. I don't like to read horror so I hadn't really contemplated it. But then my brain went down the rabbit hole and thought: "if I DID do one, it would be gothic books and there are a few I'd like to read or re-read." Therefore:
And these are my options I'm contemplating.
Steve has a board meeting tonight. I have reading sprints to run and many pages to read.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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