Recently read

As this post bears no relationship whatsoever to Wednesday, I will abandon the traditional “WWW Wed” formula.

Recently I read: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Or rather, Flo Gibson read it, and I listened to it while driving my car. I do love this story, especially Elinor. I haven’t chosen another audiobook because I fear the next one won’t live up.

And before that I read: The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller. I learned of this book on the blog of an avid mystery reader, and since it was set in a time period I enjoy (post-WWI England), I picked it up. Captain Laurence Bertram is back from the war but directionless, until the sister of an old schoolfellow asks him to look into his former friend’s death under mysterious circumstances.

And before that I didn’t read: We Are Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. Having greatly enjoyed the short story collection What I Didn’t See, I thought I would take a look at Fowler’s newest novel, but the first few pages didn’t grip me at all, so I did not properly begin reading it. I returned it to the library instead.

Currently: The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Elizabeth Speller. Three years after the events of the first Laurence Bertram novel, the WWI veteran visits acquaintances in the country who are haunted by the disappearance of a five-year-old child, Kitty, almost a decade prior. And then they find a fresh body hidden inside an old church.