Something has really reignited my interest in blogging recently. Maybe it’s that I’m finding the internet so much more boring than I used to – enshittification is real.
Anyway, my 20 Books of Summer plan continues. I haven’t posted a review of The High Window (Marlowe #3) yet, but that’s coming. I’m also currently reading The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden, because I’m also on a quest for books that have a summer vibe to them. That is another planned post, but probably not until July.
I’m also expecting to finally finish Black Lamb and Grey Falcon next week. I’m down to about 150 pages left, which in an 1180 page book is a mere 14% of the book, although it’s long enough to be a novella in its own right. I’m in the final section – Montenegro – and then I have the 75 page Epilogue left. That book has been a marathon not a sprint and I cannot wait to remove it from the sidebar.
So, for next week, I’m planning to read:
- Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard: this is the 4th book in the Cazalet Chronicles, which will just leave me with All Change to finish the series. I’m excited to see what’s next for Polly, Clary and Louise.
- The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson: this is one of the books in the LOA American Noir of the 1950’s collection and is on my Summer of Noir list. There is also a 2010 adaptation that I may or may not watch.
- The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler: book 4 of the Philip Marlowe series.