My Goodreads want-to-read list is swelling with BaW shared titles.... Other than my (snail-paced) sip reading titles these are my current reads: The Book of Psalms (in a standard KJV bible) I’m hoping to count this as my ye olde “book” written before 1600 - technically it was ;-P though it was translated and published in the English KJV bible in 1611. The Listerdale Mystery ~ Agatha Christie (audio) London / “Philomel Cottage”/ Merseyside/ Hampshire/ Surrey/ An “English Village” While We’re Far Apart ~ Lynn Austin WWII USA-centric I’m trying to give Penny, a key character in the book, time to get some spunk – currently she’s just irritating! Completed (titles for my Brit Trip rebel bus): Miss Seeton Sings: Bk4 ~ Heron Carvic (2) (audiobook) London / Italy/ Switzerland/ Paris More violent than the other Miss Seeton books I’ve read. A character is ruthlessly dismembered in the bath and then distributed around Paris in suitcases – oh, and Miss Seeton unknowingly brings the victims forearm home inside a wedding present for young friends. Then the brief foray into a naked stage show, that Carvic has a concussed Miss Seeton participating in, dragged this far-fetched tale right down into a farce for me. I prefer Mrs. Pollifax, Miss Silver, or, Miss Marple to Carvic’s Miss Seeton any day. The Gate Keeper (Ian Rutledge #20) ~ Charles Todd (4) (audiobook) London/ Suffolk /Surrey/ Essex I enjoy this series more as randomly selected, occasional, reads as opposed to reading them one after the other in order (small shudder). I thought this one gifted the reader with some worthy red herrings ☺ Miss Silver Comes to Stay: Miss Silver Bk16 ~ Patricia Wentworth (4) Nottinghamshire (as above with random selection etc..)

Sip reads: Some of these have been in my bedside table (nightstand?) or my book basket for years. Letters of Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett Vol 2 (pub Harper & brothers) I’ve been sipping away at vols 1 & 2 for years - my sister gifted these lovely old books to me in approx. 2008 - I’ll get there yet. The Life Application: KJV Bible Mere Christianity ~ C.S. Lewis Contentment ~ Richard Swenson The Divine Comedy ~ Dante/Longfellow Petticoat Pioneers: North Island Woman of the Colonial Era. Bk:1 ~ Miriam Macgregor North and South ~ Elizabeth Gaskell (switching between audio & e.book) Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life (TGC) ~ Prof. Rufus Fears (audio) The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children ~ Katherine Paterson The titles beneath are ones I started this year: First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill ~ Sonia Purnell (switched to audio) The Zookeeper’s Wife ~ Diane Ackerman A Child’s Anthology of Poetry ~ Elizabeth Hauge Sword (Dd is reading this to me ;) ) A Beautiful Blue Death ~ Charles Finch

Empathising! A style similar to this, the quickest USA link I could find in a hurry, is flattering to 'special' shaped mum (anything to swing attention more to the top, and I don't know if the arms need dressing... they do in my home ;) ) Hoping you do find what you are needing!!

Most welcome, though I know the thanks is actually mine :-) your hours of work on the Goodreads list are so helpful. ♥ And like others here, I think I'm well past middle age though as I'm racing towards 50 - does 'staying a sleep' return anytime after that ;-p - waking often in the night allows for audiobook listening. Perhaps we could list our sip reading stash Cascadia ... might encourage others to gift us with a glimpse of what they are sipping through too. :) Thanks Kathy, Isaac's Storm looks like a read DH would enjoy. And I think my DS would enjoy those debates you linked Robin.

My son really enjoys your "palate cleanser", Three Men in a Boat, and I was telling him - hinting - I'd be enjoying the book more if I was listening to it with someone. He assured me I'm doing fine on my own ;-p Resharing the counties in this book for others Brit Trippers: London/ Chesire/ Buckinghamshire/ Surrey/ Berkshire/ Dorset/ Oxfordshire. I'm close to finishing TMiaB and then Dd and I are going to listen to the Connie Willis title, To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last: Bk2 , another Baw mention a while back. Thanks to another BaW-er :-D I picked up an overdrive book I would never normally select on my own, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ~ Rachel Joyce (County harvesting read: Devon / Bristol / Glouchesterhire/ Burmingham/ London/ Derbyshire/ Leeds, Yorkshire? / South Yorkshire/ North Yorkshire/ Durham/ Northumberland). The book contains some pretty raw, gritty, life scenarios and choices, and, the swearing sinks into f-bombs, which was easier to skip in printed format. I can't say I liked this book - I don't, I think - yet it's one of those books I'm glad I read as it's very thought generating and I know will stay with me for a long time.

(small blush) I mentally mislaid that pertinent details since I'm definitely a rebel bus rider. The Cornish mysteries seem more enjoyable via audio, and, bk1 was just an ok listen for me too. Yes, that's how I read the L'Engle quote too. ETA: thanks for the comment about the Carola Dunn book I dropped - seems I'm not missing much then :-)

FIAR titles and A Pair of Red Clogs in particular - what a fond rush of memories ♥ Posting this. then heading to bed (early morning here :-/ ). Completed : Battles at Thrush Green: Bk4 ~ Miss Read (3.5) “English village” in the Cotswold Gloucestershire Unashamed: Rahab ~ Francine Rivers (5) Bible based fiction. The Unexpected Guest ~ Agatha Christie (4) Wales… so doesn’t count for our Brit Trip, does it? The Valley of the Shadow: A Cornish Mystery Bk3 ~ Carola Dunn (4) Cornwall Buried in the Country: Cornish Mystery Bk4 ~ Carola Dunn (4) Others may like to know that while there is some cursing in each book there are no f-bombs. The Richest Man in Babylon ~ George S. Clason (3.5) N/F recommended read by Jay. Completing this is one that comes with a sense of achievement as I’ve been chipping away at this book, on and off, for about a year. One take away gem was about Luck standing for Labour Under Correct Knowledge. A Circle of Quiet ~ Madeleine L'engle N/F USA (epukapuka copy) (4.5) Interesting and thought-provoking read. Some of her thoughts are diametrically opposite to my own (developing) beliefs. As an aside, I came away a little unsure of whether L’engle came to believe in God or not? She says early on in the book (pg147 of the e.book) I was earnestly explaining to the young minister that I did not believe in God, “but I’ve discovered that I can’t live as though I didn’t believe in him. As I long as I don’t need to say any more than that I try to live as though I believe in God, I would very much like to come to church – if you’ll let me.” The Winter Garden: Daisy # 2 ~ Carola Dunn Cheshire (Dropped) Though the narrator is a gifted voice actor, in this book she is “trying’ to be British. Ghastly listen !! I cannot get this through our library as a book, or ebook, yet, so I’m abandoning it. Other than my (snail-paced) sip reading titles these are my current reads: The Book of Psalms (in a standard KJV bible) Miss Seeton Sings: Bk4 ~ Heron Carvic London / Italy/ Switzerland (audiobook)

I've been working my way, slowly, through her Thrush Green series. I think they are an enjoyable English village read and would be perfect for a non-mystery Cozy (imo :D)

Figuring I'd better post now, and come back to carry on reading what you're each doing later. Audible has a 30% of the list price for members so I've purchased a few lower priced, Brit Trip, audios to enjoy: Further Afield ~ Miss Read, Parker Pyne Investigates ~ Christie, The Unexpected Guest ~ Christie ( I can't recall having ever read this one). I still have my small pile of sip reads on the go and I'm currently listening to, or, reading the following: The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need ~ Scott Pape N/F (Audio. contains coarse language and some off colour jokes) Battles at Thrush Green: Bk4 ~ Miss Read “English village” in the Cotswold Gloucestershire A Circle of Quiet ~ Madeleine L'engle N/F USA epukapuka copy A Beautiful Blue Death ~ Charles Finch Completed since last check-in: The Unknown Ajax ~ Georgette Heyer, narrated by Daniel Philpott (re-listen) (3.5) Sussex/Yorkshire The Labour of Hercules: Hercule Poirot ~ Agatha Christie, narrated by Hugh Fraser (2.5) Berkshire/ “English village” / “Lyde Manor”/ “Mertonshire” / “Cranchester” / Devon / London Sister Eve, Private Eye ~ Lynne Hinton (library book) (USA) (3) I enjoyed the story about Eve, but thought the mystery portion wasn’t so well written.

Sigh .....what beautiful thread. Thank you for sharing pictures of your darling babies ♥

Nodding in agreement! I've tried many authors I didn't even know existed thanks to BaW participators.

Such stress for you and your family. (hug)

I did :D and I'm counting myself in good company then since both Robin and yourself have counted the N/F authors too.

Thanks to the Brit Trip challenge I've read more new-to-me fiction authors than I usually would. New non-fiction authors are easier to collect. (The follow-on thought was should NF works count towards new to you authors? I say surely they must if it's in a story styled format and is not a textbook? Or am I one of the few that would count N/F authors? ) 22 new authors so far this year. 11 Fiction authors: Heron Carvic Charles Todd Clare Vanderpool Peter Grainger Kazuo Ishiguro Sophie Hannah Lynn Austen James Runcie David Veart Martha Wells Lynne Hinton 11 Non- Fiction authors: Diane Ackerman Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor John Geiger Donnie Eichar David I. Levy Erik Vance Tom Sancton Steven Johnson Ian Hunter Amy Williams Sonia Purnell

It is so nice to have the forums back up and running! Enjoyed the pictures being shared on last times thread! Being without a venue to discuss books, our Easter weekend visitors got bludgeoned coerced into talking books with me – desperate times call for desperate measures. Here is a question I got to ponder over the weekend: Q: How many new to you authors have you read so far this year? Anyone here like to take a stab at that question? I’m back on the rebel bus for the Brit Trip. Completed since last check-in: The Rags of Time: DC Smith # 6 ~ Peter Grainger (3) (London / West Norfolk) Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death: Bk1 ~ James Runcie (library book) (2) Cambridgeshire The Talisman Ring ~ Georgette Heyer (re-listen) (4) Sussex Phyllida Nash is a favourite narrator. Time and Tide : DC Smith #7 ~ Peter Grainger (3.5) Norfolk Why Didn’t They Ask Evans ~ Agatha Christie (re-listen) (2.5) Denbighshire, Wales / London Hidden Places ~ Lynn Austen (4.5) USA 1930’s. Christian fiction with an underlying mystery: who is Gabe Harper? My review Books being played or read: The Book of Psalms (in a standard KJV bible) Sister Eve, Private Eye ~ Lynne Hinton (library book) (USA) Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome London, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Dorset, Oxfordshire Still sipping my way through these titles: First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill ~ Sonia Purnell The Divine Comedy ~ Dante/Longfellow I’ve just started Paradiso (it’s taken me nearly two years to get this far. This is definitely not a read I can rapidly consume – I like to pause and ponder over this poem) North and South ~ Elizabeth Gaskell Manchester, Cornwall. London. (switching between audio & e.book) The Richest Man in Babylon ~ Clason

I don't have an answer to that horrible, one author only, question. Interesting to see the answers given, especially Kareni's clever one :thumbup: Updating on books I've added to my being read pile. This sounds fickle but it's true; sometimes I'm just not in the frame of mind for anything I'm currently reading, and then one of the books mentioned by another BaW poster becomes available at the library..... :tongue_smilie: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death: Bk1 ~ James Runcie (Cambridgeshire) And being a devout Heyer fan, it's never any hardship to relisten to The Talisman Ring (Sussex) I think Sarah Thane must be one of my most liked Heyer 'heroines' ETA: Georgette Heyer’s Regency World ~ Jennifer Kloester N/F (wild card) I've got to the place where I'm not really aiming to have read for each, or most, of the counties but am just selecting out books to read for enjoyment. I think I prefer the just- for- fun things on the mystery bus more than those listed for the rebel's bus. What is not to like about Belgian chocolates, knitting, and gourmet food :drool5: I guess there is a price to pay for being a rebel :laugh:

Following by email. (Thank you for all the links shared and books you each mention!!) I enjoyed a browse through Steve McCurry's readers photos. With my rebel Brit Trip I've just disembarked from the Yorkshire bus (love that photo of the Dales shared this week) after reading Venetia ~ Georgette Heyer (3.5) audio. Phyllida Nash is one of my favourite narrators! (Counties and towns Venetia visits: Yorkshire, York, East Sussex, London.) I enjoy books that refer to other works of literature and to have someone else compile this annotation for others to refer to, makes the listen even more enjoyable. A Long Shadow (Inspector Ian Rutledge #8) ~ Charles Todd (3.5) e.book (London, Sussex, Northamptonshire. Hertfordshire, Suffolk.) The only book in this series I've read, so I quite enjoyed it. I can't read books via a screen for too long, so this has taken me nearly three weeks to get through. 52 books in 52 weeks titles completed this week : First, Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking ~ David Veart (4.5) If you enjoy reading books about NZ history, historic cookbooks, and, cooking, I do, then you’ll find this book so interesting. I’m keen to try the potato scones from a WWII, New Zealand, cookbook. Just started: North and South ~ Elizabeth Gaskell (Cornwall? / London) Switching between audio & e.book. I’ve decided to restart this book from the beginning, as it got laid aside for other reading in 2016. ETA: weird formatting!

Agreeing!! Frederica is a great book :) I can't take credit for that goodreads review, it's not mine; I linked it for the balloon chase map and because the reviewer's sentiments echo mine. ETA: went back and edited my post.

I'm glad I subscribed to this thread early in the week as schooling and the rest of life does not allow much time to be on the forums. (I've enjoyed flicking through the emails from this thread - so many interesting rabbit trails to archive for later reading.) Completed: The Reluctant Widow ~ Georgette Heyer audiobook (5) (Regency title square/ West Sussex) A favourite Heyer title to replay. Very clean romance, regency mystery. The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Bk1 ~ Sophie Hannah (2.5) Settings: London/ Great Holling – a faux English village. I’m pleased I went into this audiobook with the mindset that this story included “Poirot†and was not written by Agatha Christie otherwise I would have ended up as disappointed as many other goodreads members were! Brilliant narration by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Frederica ~ Georgette Heyer (5) London. Watford, Hertfordshire. Another favourite Heyer audiobook to replay – I just adore Heyer’s Felix. Georgette Heyer is an undemanding author to play when hands are busy-ish and my brain is relatively free. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/441695870?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1 ETA: another goodreader's review, which includes a quiz and map J Audiobooks being played: First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill ~ Sonia Purnell enjoying this so much Not a book , but a Great Courses listen about books that I'm chipping away at this term: Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life (TGC) ~ Prof. Rufus Fears

The book looks interesting. Hope you have a wonderful visit to Spain next month!!!! Grin. Nodding in empathy. Sorry to those for whom Harry Potter is a literary friend ...... one go through of a H.P book was enough for me. I'm really enjoying it. (I'll hunt up the SoS title you mentioned) Thanks to the BaW participators News of the World is a now a favourite book for me ... not sure about rereading it though (I don't want to ruin the first read feeling). Looking forward to seeing what you thought of Footsteps in the Dark . That and Why Shoot a Butler? are two of Heyer's mystery titles I really like. Book 10 is due out in September (?) and if Bess' personal life finally starts to move significantly forward I think I will read on. Otherwise, I'll wait until the authors get Bess running a hospital/engaged/married, read that title and then count the series as completed. QUESTION: So to achieve a rank closer to the top we would need to complete all of the 'just for fun' things listed beneath that rank, as well as the one relating to it? (Hope that makes sense. I know sometimes my kiwi-speak can be a challenge to decode. :tongue_smilie: )

Audiobooks count for 80% of my literary input as working on our self-build is gifting me with a good deal of free headspace, but little time to sit and read. Any physical books mentioned below are being read in very, very, small bites. I'm working on 52 books in 52 weeks, and the Brit Trip challenge - both seem to be going well. With Robin mentioning Ireland, now seems a good time to slip in the Overdrive audio version of a Celtic mystery she mentioned a while back (thanks, Robin). Saint Brigid's Bones ~ Philip Freeman (County Kildare, Ireland) I wasn’t going to listen to this until my Brit Tripping was over. Audiobooks Completed: An Accidental Death: A DC Smith Investigation Series, Bk 1~ Peter Grainger (4 stars) (Norfolk) I enjoyed this book. DC Smith is delightful. Extra detail for others that like to know things like this too; there is cursing in this book, no f-bombs though. The main characters beloved spouse has just died. A teen is murdered/drowned. Grainger euphemistically refers to a previous, violent, case against young girls, and, a young couple commencing a sexual relationship at the end of the book (no steamy, sensuous scenes). A Pattern of Lies: Bess Crawford Mystery #7 ~ Charles Todd (3 stars) (Kent) Now completed books 1 to 9. Despite extreme hardships, Bess’ character doesn’t seem to have developed much in nine books. Books just started: The Remains of the Day ~ Kazuo Ishiguro (Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall) Despite only managing to read one to two pages of this a day, I am enjoying Ishiguro’s writing style and the story surrounding this very British butler. An Overdrive hold became available, so I’m trying to add that to my book basket for the next few weeks too: First, Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking ~ David Veart Audiobooks being played: Switching from printed format to audio, First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill ~ Sonia Purnell (Buckinghamshire) Dh is listening to this too and we’re both finding it well written, and an interesting listen …… I am so thankful that neither Clementine’s nor Winton’s mother was mine :ohmy: Persons of Interest: DC Smith, Bk4 ~ Peter Grainger (Huntingdonshire & Norfolk) I skipped ahead to this book as the themes in books 2 & 3 didn’t appeal. I’m hoping DC does not start an affair with Jo, that’ll wreck the book for me L

You could just compartmentalise it as hopping on the bus with the Rebels - we'd all love the company - you can leap off at the next stop :)

I abandoned P.D. James dramatised audio, edited my comment up thread about that, and wasn’t in the mood to start The Remains of the Day ~ Kazuo Ishiguro yet so I decided to start reading First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill ~ Sonia Purnel (Buckinghamshire) and have A Colourful Death: A Cornish Mystery Bk 2 ~ Carola Dunn as another of my audiobooks. (ETA: Wondering where I could place The Silmarillion ~ J.R.R. Tolkien - it’s on my list to be read soon - would it be a wild card?) So happy that you enjoyed your first A.C book Kara! Looking forward to seeing your list of 10 re-read titles Robin. Time to read books must be the only upside to a fever loesje. Hope you're better soon. Smiles, Chelle

Very handy hint. Thank you!! (Just tried it, and it works for me on my computer.)

Thank you!!! (Hope I haven't spoiled that question for you though.)