Happy first day of June!  What's everyone reading? 

I finished Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook earlier today.  Eh.  I wasn't impressed.  Boring.  Slow moving, and the revenge was not all that glorious. I'm listening to This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger.  I haven't decided what I will start reading with my eyeballs this evening.  

Finished A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende.  Good read!  Now reading Blood Meridan by Cormac McCarthy for a GR reading challenge.

Hi, R E K!  I have a couple Isabel Allende books on Mt. TBR.  I should try to get to them soon.  I hope things are going as well as can be hoped for with your husband! 

I ended up picking up The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store as my eyeball read the other night. 

Cancer of any type is a long journey Shelley.  Thanks for your concern.  Only through one of six treatments.  Have a high school friend who was very ill so I texted him to see how he was doing.  He has had a tough go and is still working on it.  When he learned DH was ill he called and they talked for 40 minutes.  Both are electrical engineers so have much in common.  Social interaction and support is so important to healing.  DH told him to call whenever he needed to talk.  I believe that only those who have been through this disease come close to understanding what one is experiencing.

Good Morning,

Last night I finished Diva by Daisy Goodwin. It is about Maria Callas the great Opera singer. It also gets into her affair with Aristotle Onnasis.  It is well writting but I though bother people were obnoxious. 

I finished the book in the Maisie Dobbs series The Comfort of Ghost by Jacqueline Winspear. It was excellent. I have read all 18 books. The series started in 1914 and ended in 1945.  Excellent ending to the series she tied up all loose ends. I will miss this series.

I finished The Angry Tide by Winston Graham.  Another good book in the series.  I am impressed that the TV show that was on a few years ago was so faithful to the books.

Now I am starting Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings.  It's the first in her Detective William Murdoch series.  I only started watching the TV show last month, but I am told the two are vastly different.  We shall see!

R E K - I'm glad your hubby was able to connect with someone in a similar situation.  I would think that would be very supportive. I agree with you, until you've experienced it yourself, you can't really understand the feeling.  

Carolyn - I loved the "Poldark" series.  I have the first of the book series on my shelf, but I haven't read it yet.  

I finished Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings.  I like her style of writing and will continue the series, although the Det. William Murdoch depicted in the book is NOT the Det. William Murdoch depicted in the show.  

I am currently reading What Cannot Be Said by CS Harris, the latest in her Sebastian St. Cyr series.

I finished What Remains of Heaven of C.S. Harris book 5 excellent series set in 1812 England.

Now I am reading Deeds of Darkness by Edward Marston. Set in 1916 England. Very good series.

I just finished What Cannot Be Said by CS Harris (#19 in the series).  Very good, but I actually figured out who the killer was early on!  

I'm now starting Castle Shade by Laurie R. King. (#17 in her Russell/Holmes series)

Hello!  I recently finished listening to This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, which I enjoyed very much.  I finished reading The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride last night, which was also good.  I started listening to Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire yesterday (haven't read Maguire since reading Wicked ages and ages ago), and I plan to start reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez this evening. I see there is some sort of TV adaptation of that last one, so I figured I'd finally read it so I can watch the television series. 

Well, I bailed on One Hundred Years of Solitude.  I just couldn't get into it.  I did put it back on my bookshelf as one day I might want to try again.  I started reading The Cuban Heiress instead which is a bit of fluff which I don't usually love, but at least it's a quick read and checks off one of the boxes on this year's HF Challenge. 

I've finished The Cuban Heiress.  Eh.  Not really my type of book but a quick read.  I'm still listening to Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, which I am very much enjoying.  I'm going to start reading The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan this evening. 

Reading Sisi, a tale about the woman who married the emperor of the Austria-Hungarian Empire for the HF challenge.  Alice, I managed to obtain Diva from our library so I have two HF books going at the moment.