Reading Report: Late June 2021

Posted on 06/27/2021 by chick
  • I finally finished The Unfinished World by Amber Sparks, which is a great relief, because how ironic the title would have been if the book had turned out to be an unfinished one! The short stories in this collection are not plot-driven, which is perhaps a weakness (for some readers), but they are beautiful, disturbing, haunting. I’m not sure what to do with the book. It’s a good one, worth keeping simply because the author has such a gift with words. But, I don’t expect that I’ll read it again. So, though it pains me, I think I will donate it. I have to keep reminding myself that books can be reacquired in a number of ways and that letting go of a book doesn’t mean that I will never see it again. Perhaps before donating it I will browse through it to find a few quotes to keep as mementos.
  • I am close now to having read all of Barbara Michaels’s novels and Agatha Christie’s major works (defined by me as “all of the Marples and Poirots plus the acclaimed standalone mysteries”). This gives me both a feeling of accomplishment and one of terror as I contemplate life with no new stories by these two favorite authors. To alleviate that terror, I started looking for new mysteries to read. The first one that I picked up was Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. It’s a quick read, and I’m almost done with it. At this point in the story, I would say that the book is flawed in its structure (it has a weak intro and a huge flashback in the middle), but I absolutely love Maisie Dobbs’s approach to life and to detective work, and I suspect that all will be forgiven by the end.
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