Happy Saturday! June is coming to a close. Here’s what we’re reading right now:
Lara: I’m reading a new-to-me Regency romance author: Rachel Griffiths. The book is called Just for the Season ( A | BN | K | AB ) and so far it’s a delight. Not a lot of historical detail which is usually not for me, but the heroine has such verve and bite, that I’m a fan anyway. Full review coming!
Claudia: Trying to continue with Amy Rose Bennett’s The Governess’s Guide to Spells and Managing Misfit Marquesses ( A | BN | K | AB ) but I don’t know. Not feeling it.
Sarah: I’m reading Scandal of the Summer by Alexandra Vasti ( A | BN | K | AB ) and it is CHARMING AF.
Amanda: Pregnancy has me all over the place. Two weekends ago, I read three books and then haven’t touched anything since. I also keep vacillating between dark romances and Why Choose romances.
At the top of my pile right now is Beautiful Venom by Rina Kent. ( A | BN )
Whatcha reading? Tell us in the comments!
It was so hot last night that I couldn’t sleep, so I started a reread of Anna Chronistic and the Scarab of Destiny. It’s just so much fun.
Out in the garden, I’ve been reading The Player’s Boy (Antonia Forest). I ordered the paperback the moment Girls Gone By announced they were doing a reprint a few years ago, but didn’t have the brain to actually read it. Our Hero Joins Shakespeare’s Company feels a bit overdone these days, but I’m reading this torn between stunned admiration of how Forest managed to get such a bowdlerisation-free portrait of the Elizabethan theatre past her editors and stunned admiration of the way she writes.
On vacation and mostly using Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart as my beach read (I’m not technically at a beach but vacation is a beach state of mind). It’s been recommended over and over to me by authors I like who adore it and cite it as an influence. I’ve been a little leery because fantasy about China written by a white man in the eighties but have decided to say screw it and enjoy the potentially problematic fave. The characters are fun and the prose is lovely and it’s bursting with charm! Annnd kinda sexist and orientalist because eighties. Eh. Still having a good time.
In between I’m getting started on Little Thieves, by Margaret Owen, because it’s part of a series under consideration for the Hugo Awards and I’m trying to vote responsibly and be Informed.