Happy October and welcome to Spooky Season! 

Status quo for me - reading Horse by Geraldine Brooks (which I am enjoying more than I thought I would) and listening to I am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce Book 4) by Alan Bradley which, as I expected, I am loving.  The narrator of these books does the most fabulous job! 

What's everyone else reading this month?

I finished The King's Jewel by Elizabeth Chadwick  9 stars out of 10 excellent book She is my favorite HF author

Finished The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson, 3 stars.  Easy reading romantic historical fiction.  Finished The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman, interesting read about a home for discarded children and adults.  The story features Rosemary and Sage Winters, identical twins.  Rosemary has mental issues and is sent to Willowbrook, and her mother told Sage that she died of pneumonia.  Six years later she discovers that she is alive and well but has disappeared from the facility.  She wants to help find her but when she reaches Willowbrook she is believed to be her twin and is confined to her sister's ward.  And, yes, Sage gets out in a few weeks but finds herself almost the most recent murdered victim by an individual who has been "helping" residents leave through death.

Hello!  I finished I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce Book 4) last Friday, which was charming as all Flavia books are. Then I started listening to Merivel by Rose Tremaine, which is a follow up to Restoration, which I read earlier this year.  Still reading Horse by Geraldine Brooks. 

Happy Friday! I finished Horse by Geraldine Brooks, so I will be starting a new book this evening.  Going with The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.  The cover tells me it is life changing.  We shall see.  Still thoroughly enjoying listening to Merivel.  

Hello!  I'm continuing on with the Poldark series.  I started The Loving Cup.  Hoping to finish this series by the end of the year!  

Reading The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl.  I like this author.  This story is about Dickens and his final book which was unfinished.  The American  publisher is in England looking for clues as to where Dickens intended to take this book.  Interesting premise and the writing flows so smoothly, even when he changes the timeline.  Has anyone read many of his other books and, if so, which ones and what did you think?

REK - I tried reading The Dante Club by  Matthew Pearl ages ago and DNF'd it. I remember not liking his style of writing, at least back then.

Hello!  I finished listening to Merivel, and I enjoyed it so much as I did the first book, Restoration.  I decided to try another Rose Tremain book, and I went with The Gustav Sonata as it's free with my Audible subscription until the end of the month.  Still reading The Shadow of the Wind, which so far has not changed my life (as promised by the book cover), but I'm not even halfway through yet, so there's time. 

I finished The Cold Light of Day by Anna Lee Huber 7 in the series.Very good historical mystery set in 1920 Ireland. Lots of information about Sinn Fein.

Hello!  I finished The Gustav Sonata over the weekend and immediately started listening to The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club. 

Alice - I've read, I believe, the first 3 or 4 of the Lady Darby books, and they are really the only historical mysteries I enjoy.  Audible had the next one I need to read in the series available for free, but I won't get to it before the freebie expires at the end of the month. 

I finished The House on Biscayne Bay  by Chanel Cleeton very good Historica/Gothic mystery. Set in 1920 and 1941 Southern Florida. Lots of twist and turns. Good history of that region during the time period.

Hello, and Happy Halloween!  I finished The Shadow of the Wind last night.  Pretty good, but I don't feel like it was "life changing" as the cover of the book proclaimed it would be.  LOL!  I started a silly little book called Cocaine Blues (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Book 1) by Kerry Greenwood.  I'm only about 20 pages in, but wow!  A strange book.  I think it could fall into the "cozy mystery" category, but for the sex (which I understand is coming).  I can't decide if I want to finish it or not.  The story just jumps right in.  No character development, no context to orient the reader.  Reviews seemed to be either people loved it or hated it - although there seemed to be universal love for some television series that was based on this book and the rest in the series.  Anyway, not generally a book I would read, but I needed something for the "book set in the 1920s" category for this year's HF Challenge.