I already own them all! I only have The Golden Child and Innocence left to read. Really looking forward to your new book. I've had it on hold at the library for weeks!

I've read 20 Trollopes so for. TWWLN is definitely not the best and probably not even in the top ten.

I read this last year under similar circumstances...slump gone. The other two books in the trilogy, Old Baggage and V is for Victory, are also worth reading but not as good as CH. I should read more Lissa Evans.

I'm doing this too. I've read them all but there's much more to see and learn there. In fact, I hardly remember reading The Mirror and the Light. I started it in early March 2020 and we all know how that went.

Libraries usually run book clubs. Substack is a reader's paradise with many book-related activities--slow reads and group reads, especially of classics

Read less and more selectively. I hit 200 books last year (newly retired) and it was all a bit of a blur.

Re-read more. It's like catching up with old friends.

Take advantage of online slow reads and group reads.

I read APoGS this year. I see her Wolf Hall style emerging but it didn't engage me like WH etal. I'll be looking in on the slow read but I'm not sure I want to re-read yet.

Fitzgerald doesn't write long books, but I have to take my time with them. I read TBF but will do so again for the slow read.

FWIW, Scrapple is kind of like spam, a Frankenmeat if you will. I remember my dad ordering it in diners. God knows what's in it.

I'd add The Feast to the Margaret Kennedy pile.

I just subscribed to this, mostly for the Wolf Hall trilogy slow read next year. I'm counting on this and the other slow reads to get me through next year and all its uncertainty. 🤞A re-read of W&P at a chapter a day sounds doable too.

Second this! One Fine Day is so great, I'm almost afraid to re-read it.

Why am I not reading them all for the third time?

Hey! From a fellow Med-ELer, both ears. I added some thoughts in the comments. Technology for the win!

Great episode. I highly recommend South Riding. It's a long book but it didn't feel that way. I read it in just a few days.

Also, the first 8 volumes of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage series are available as free ebooks from Project Gutenberg, gutenberg.org

Happy reading!

I'm one of the people who read Moby Dick because I read this book. I loved Dayswork because I love plotless and plot-light novels and because it was so original. I hope the follow up book comes to fruition.

Just started Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey for a slow read and Janice Hallett's Alperton Angels mystery. I also picked up Francis Spufford's and Margot Livesey's new books at the library in case my first choices don't fit my current groove.

One of the libraries in my area is like a relative who never throws out anything. Stashed away in their collection are three Pakington novels. I might try the one from 1948, which is The Washbournes of Otterly. The others are from the 60s--John Brandon and Catherine Chailey. Any thoughts on these?

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