Recent reading
Mar. 7th, 2022 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
troisoiseauxRead The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell, a historical mystery with a supernatural twist. It's set in Victorian London and follows parallel investigations - one by the sharp-witted and sharper-tongued Inspector Cutter and earnest Cambridge dropout Gideon Bliss, and the other by plucky journalist Octavia Hillingdon - into the death of a seamstress found with words stitched into her skin, and the disappearances of a number of working-class girls.
Read The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore, historical fiction about a witch hunt in 1640s England that is also, at its heart, a story about a young woman's complicated relationship with her single mother. Historical fiction about 17th century witch trials seems to be having a moment— this is the third such novel published in 2020-21 that I've read in the past few months, but definitely my favorite of the three.
Listening to Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, which works really well as an audiobook! I'm really liking how it has different narrators for the book's different storylines - there are a few distinct but intertwining story-within-a-story arcs going on - and Morgenstern's writing style sounds great when read aloud.
Read The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore, historical fiction about a witch hunt in 1640s England that is also, at its heart, a story about a young woman's complicated relationship with her single mother. Historical fiction about 17th century witch trials seems to be having a moment— this is the third such novel published in 2020-21 that I've read in the past few months, but definitely my favorite of the three.
Listening to Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, which works really well as an audiobook! I'm really liking how it has different narrators for the book's different storylines - there are a few distinct but intertwining story-within-a-story arcs going on - and Morgenstern's writing style sounds great when read aloud.
