Monday at the Library

The first Monday of 2023, and I have these books checked out of my two library systems:

Print books:

1. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys: I checked this out after finishing Jane Eyre, but this is probably not the time for me to read it, so it’s likely to go back the next time I return books.
2. Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart: I’ve actually read this, & it needs to be returned.
3. The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr: due back on the 7th, and next up to read. It has holds, so I won’t be able to renew.
4. Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
5. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
6. All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie
7. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen: I checked this out after listening to the Backlisted Podcast about it. I’m not sure I’ll get to it this time, but I definitely want to read it. It’s also on my Classics Club list!
8. National Provincial by Lettice Cooper: I saw someone reading this on Twitter, and it’s definitely up my alley. I just haven’t gotten to it yet.
9. The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong
10. Murders a Swine by Nap Lombard
11. The Haunted Lady by Mary Roberts Rinehart
12. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark Noll: continuing my interest in why the American Evangelical church seems to reject science and education and aligns itself with soulless grifters.
13. Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
14. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms and Profits are Hurting the Church by Katelyn Beaty: see comments on The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.

Digital checkouts:

1. A Necessary End by Peter Robinson
2. The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes
3. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
4. Wintering by Katherine May: I checked this book out last year and liked it enough that I wanted to reread parts of it.
5. The Outermost House by Henry Beston
6. Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
7. A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley: I’m not sure I will get to this right now, but I want to read more Jane Smiley in 2023.
8. Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh