Thank you for sharing! I will add a few from your list to my reading this year. I just discovered two of ERC Lorac's book this past year but have not read the two that you mentioned. I also somehow had missed the last three Barchester Chronicles! I thought there were only three! I am excited to read the other ones!
I just finished a most beautiful book called "The Lighted Heart" by Elizabeth Yates. I highly recommend that one. It was just so incredibly lovely and joyous to read.
Hi Lauren, I’ve read a few of Elizabeth Yates’ books - mostly those she wrote for children & they were beautiful. I’ve never heard of the one you mentioned. You have 3 books to really look forward to now! The Last Chronicle very satisfyingly ties all the loose ends together. I’m thinking I might try one of his Palliser novels next although I’d be quite happy to re-read the Barsetshire books yet again. ☺️
Les Mis is one I’d like to read next year. I’ve seen the musical & know the gist of the story but I’ve kept putting off ploughing through the sewers of Paris. 🥴
I look forward to reading your thoughts on it when you get through it! My husband read Les Mis several years ago and very much enjoyed it. I need to read it!
I have read quite a few of your books. The Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Children of Men, War & Peace, Dracula, Middlemarch, Hanna Coulter, Gilead, The Road, Frankenstein, and a lot of Dickens, but not that one.
Some great reads on your page, I might have to check out some of your others.
We must share many reading tastes! So many favorites of mine here—the Chronicles of Barsetshire, "Middlemarch," "War and Peace," the Felse Investigations...and I've read Stratton-Porter, Rinehart, Lorac, Sheriff, Berry, Kaye, Marsh, Wentworth, Goudge, and L'Amour too. I read a couple titles by E.C.R. Lorac this year, and "Death of an Author" was my favorite.
There are so many new to me books here. Thanks Carol! I read War and Peace for the first time this year, too! It was beautiful, even though I was admittedly ready for 1812 war to end. 😆 I also re-read Gilead this year, and found such solace in it after my father’s death. Middlemaech is one of my favorite books.
😂 War & Peace! I was surprised at how compelling it was - until the parts where he went off on his philosophical wanderings. Great character demolitions of Napoleon!
I recently watched a short documentary on Washington Irving, and I want to read more of his writing. I read Rip Van Winkle aloud to my boys last fall, and we enjoyed it so much! I want to read the whole short story collection. I also plan to read The Phantom of the Opera, after my daughter pointed out to me that it's a retelling of the Persephone myth. Kristen Lavransdatter is on my list, too.
I read my daughter Rip van Winkle a few years ago & was surprised at how much we both enjoyed it. ☺️ I didn’t know that P of the O was a retelling of Persephone - interesting! I’d happily read KL again. It was such a rich book. ❤️
Ooh... I just picked up Joanna Godden from my library today, so that's on deck to read. I've read They Were Sisters, Gilead, Middlemarch, The Choice, For the Children's Sake, The Little White Horse, The Shoes of the Fisherman. I recently finished The End of the House of Alard by Sheila Kaye Smith, so had to find another of her books. I'm currently reading an Elizabeth Goudge novel - Towers in the Mist. I also picked up another Dorothy Whipple title today - The Priory. I've been so delighted to discover many new-to-me authors, many from Substack writers! A blessed Advent to you and yours!
I stumbled upon Kaye-Smith just because it was a green Virago classic & if I find one I usually snap it up. I plan on re-reading some of the Goudge books I have. The Scent of Water is one of my favourites. 😊 And a blessed Advent to you & your family, too. ❤️
I hace ordered samples of the Richard Foster and the Joanna Godden novel on my Kindle and found The Rector on Project Gutenberg. I look forward to seeing how they are, thank you. I will also investigate the Charles Dickens novel too as I loved listening to “A Tale of Two Cities” this year.
One of my daughters, who reads lots of literature, read it years ago & said she didn't like Eliot's writing. I think she needs to try it now after the passage of a few years & some more life experience.
The last part is so beautiful but I'd already quoted it in another post so chose the one I did about Causabon. A book I'm sure to re-read!
Thank you for sharing! I will add a few from your list to my reading this year. I just discovered two of ERC Lorac's book this past year but have not read the two that you mentioned. I also somehow had missed the last three Barchester Chronicles! I thought there were only three! I am excited to read the other ones!
I just finished a most beautiful book called "The Lighted Heart" by Elizabeth Yates. I highly recommend that one. It was just so incredibly lovely and joyous to read.
Hi Lauren, I’ve read a few of Elizabeth Yates’ books - mostly those she wrote for children & they were beautiful. I’ve never heard of the one you mentioned. You have 3 books to really look forward to now! The Last Chronicle very satisfyingly ties all the loose ends together. I’m thinking I might try one of his Palliser novels next although I’d be quite happy to re-read the Barsetshire books yet again. ☺️
So many books here to add to my lists! I'm reading Middlemarch next spring and I am very much looking forward to it!
Les Mis is one I’d like to read next year. I’ve seen the musical & know the gist of the story but I’ve kept putting off ploughing through the sewers of Paris. 🥴
I look forward to reading your thoughts on it when you get through it! My husband read Les Mis several years ago and very much enjoyed it. I need to read it!
I have read quite a few of your books. The Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Children of Men, War & Peace, Dracula, Middlemarch, Hanna Coulter, Gilead, The Road, Frankenstein, and a lot of Dickens, but not that one.
Some great reads on your page, I might have to check out some of your others.
We must share many reading tastes! So many favorites of mine here—the Chronicles of Barsetshire, "Middlemarch," "War and Peace," the Felse Investigations...and I've read Stratton-Porter, Rinehart, Lorac, Sheriff, Berry, Kaye, Marsh, Wentworth, Goudge, and L'Amour too. I read a couple titles by E.C.R. Lorac this year, and "Death of an Author" was my favorite.
👌 I'll keep a look out for that Lorac title. Thanks for mentioning it. 🙂
There are so many new to me books here. Thanks Carol! I read War and Peace for the first time this year, too! It was beautiful, even though I was admittedly ready for 1812 war to end. 😆 I also re-read Gilead this year, and found such solace in it after my father’s death. Middlemaech is one of my favorite books.
😂 War & Peace! I was surprised at how compelling it was - until the parts where he went off on his philosophical wanderings. Great character demolitions of Napoleon!
I recently watched a short documentary on Washington Irving, and I want to read more of his writing. I read Rip Van Winkle aloud to my boys last fall, and we enjoyed it so much! I want to read the whole short story collection. I also plan to read The Phantom of the Opera, after my daughter pointed out to me that it's a retelling of the Persephone myth. Kristen Lavransdatter is on my list, too.
I read my daughter Rip van Winkle a few years ago & was surprised at how much we both enjoyed it. ☺️ I didn’t know that P of the O was a retelling of Persephone - interesting! I’d happily read KL again. It was such a rich book. ❤️
Ooh... I just picked up Joanna Godden from my library today, so that's on deck to read. I've read They Were Sisters, Gilead, Middlemarch, The Choice, For the Children's Sake, The Little White Horse, The Shoes of the Fisherman. I recently finished The End of the House of Alard by Sheila Kaye Smith, so had to find another of her books. I'm currently reading an Elizabeth Goudge novel - Towers in the Mist. I also picked up another Dorothy Whipple title today - The Priory. I've been so delighted to discover many new-to-me authors, many from Substack writers! A blessed Advent to you and yours!
I stumbled upon Kaye-Smith just because it was a green Virago classic & if I find one I usually snap it up. I plan on re-reading some of the Goudge books I have. The Scent of Water is one of my favourites. 😊 And a blessed Advent to you & your family, too. ❤️
I hace ordered samples of the Richard Foster and the Joanna Godden novel on my Kindle and found The Rector on Project Gutenberg. I look forward to seeing how they are, thank you. I will also investigate the Charles Dickens novel too as I loved listening to “A Tale of Two Cities” this year.
The Joanna Godden book has a not very satisfying ending, but I read the sequel, Joanna Godden Married: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp59097
Hope you enjoy the books, Cate.
Thank you for the information. Sometimes I can handle an unsatisfactory or unexpected ending but it’s good to be aware.
One of my daughters, who reads lots of literature, read it years ago & said she didn't like Eliot's writing. I think she needs to try it now after the passage of a few years & some more life experience.
The last part is so beautiful but I'd already quoted it in another post so chose the one I did about Causabon. A book I'm sure to re-read!