Finished MURDER IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE

 

I must say most of what I like about this book is the variety of characters (I love that also about the tv show Midsomer Murders.)  This one also, set just after the end of WWI, brings up classism pretty strongly.  Enjoyable, liesurely read.  

I have now begun Follow the Angels Follow the Doves, a fictionalized biography of Bass Reeves (black US Marshal born into slavery in Oklahoma.)  This is a trilogy of books.  This first book deals with the raising of this young slave, favored by his master, but carefully taught to be wary by his mother.

After finishing 50 more pages of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL, I started a new mystery.

 

These pages were mostly dealing with Jonathan and Mr. Norrell's relationship, which is kind of love/hate.  The book continues to amuse.

I have now started Murder in an English Village (A Beryl and Edwina Mystery).  One of my Goodreads friends was reading it and I thought it sounded interesting, so I bought it.  Our two heroines couldn't be more different, but they are great friends and work very well together, though a bit shocked by each other.  So far the book has been fun.

FINALLY Finished WOLF HALL

 

Several times, I asked myself, "Why am I finishing this."  It wasn't boring...it was at times incomprehensible, however.  The author's way of punctuating dialogue is, shall we say, creative.  Which can be confusing.  She often uses "he" with no anticedent.  It took me the longest time to realize that was when she referred to Thomas Cromwell.  Since he was in every scene and was the obviously main character, I was just supposed to realize that "he" was Cromwell.  Imagery was beautiful.  This is a novelized explanation of what may have happened during England's transition, with Henry VIII, from Catholicism to Anglican, caused by the king's need for an heir (a male heir...he already had a female one.)  So the plot was fascinating.

I will now be returning to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.