Upcoming Comfort Reading

 

I have loved hearing from you about comfort reading!  My TBR list has grown, thanks to you.  Always a good thing.  

I often say I was born to be a retired person and people laugh, but I'm quite serious.  Spending my days reading is what I have wanted to do since forever and now it's pretty much what I do as my reward for all those years of work.

It's too peopley out there for me, and these days the craziness of the world is more than I want to be a part of (although the staff in my state reps' offices all pretty much now recognize my voice - I have no intention of disengaging totally; not while we have corrupt unhinged people running this country).  MY country.

Oops - one of my tangents; sorry . . .  As if none of you know how I feel about the state of things.

Back to comfort reading.

Louise Penny is one of my comfort read authors, and has been since I first heard of her and her debut novel, STILL LIFE.

I was lucky enough to meet Louise for the first time at the Baltimore Bouchercon in 2008.

Back then there was no long signing line.  I was able to gush and fumble and make it known in truest fangirl style that I thought she hung the moon as she signed my Three Pines books.

And I sill do.

I have all her books, of course.

Most have been signed and personalized and I absolutely treasure the collection.

Her newest, THE BLACK WOLF, will be published the end of this month.  And I can't wait!

But I'm also excited about the special anniversary edition of STILL LIFE.

All this to say, my winter comfort reading will be me snuggled up at home with Donald and Annabelle re-visiting Three Pines, books One through 20.  The Ultimate Comfort Read.

Louise will not be touring with her newest book in the United States for reasons I, personally, agree with and admire her for.  Read her words here.

And that's all for today from me in the mountains of Meat Camp, NC

Happy Reading

Stay strong, we are all in this together

❤ ❤ ❤

Comfort Reading Continues

 

The title of this book gives you no reason to think of it as a comfort read, you just have to take my word for it.

I love this book.

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.