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I’ve been in a Victorian mood lately. Granted The Beekeeper’s Apprentice is WWI, not Victorian, but one of the main characters is essentially a Victorian character - so, same difference. I wanted to immediately pick up the sequel to that book, Locked Rooms, but as luck would have it, Bookmooch hasn’t got it. I shall simply have to track down a library copy.

I just received another reading recommendation from the friend (Mrs. Gooch) who recommended The Beekeeper’s Apprentice; it’s called Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn.  This book has a lot going for it: it’s another mystery,  another from the Victorian era, and at present the recommender (Mrs. Gooch) is batting 100%. So I have resolved to look it up immediately. Of course, Bookmooch doesn’t have that either!

I suppose this means a trip to the library is in order. I would do that today, but today is another one of those nasty semi-rainy days… and Chicago has apparently decided that winter starts this week. After a week of 60-70 degree weather, it’s suddenly 30 degrees outside.

I’ve already done my grocery shopping and weekend errands, and I just don’t feel up to going out again, so I guess I’ll just stick with A Christmas Story for the weekend. I’m not sure what I’ll use for my transit reading this week, but my “audio” reading will continue (even more authentically) with this Victorian mood I’ve been in; I downloaded an audiobook of Dickens’ Bleak House . This is one of the four or five Charles Dickens novels that I haven’t read, so I’m quite looking forward to it. The only problem with it is that Bleak House is a pretty long book, somewhere in the region of 900 pages… so the audio book (especially the unabridged version I picked) is apparently SEVEN MILLION HOURS LONG. Oh well! I would never consider an abridged version of a book (sacrilege!), and listening to it for five to eight hours a day at work… I should get through it before the rental period expires. At the end of the month. — Mrs. Hall

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