Laura, Anne LeBastille? My old boss at The Nature Conservancy used to vacation in the Adirondacks and gave me a signed copy. I felt pretty much the same.

Oh yeah, Cash. Her high opinion of herself kind of overshadows her accomplishments. I guess the locals don't care much for her either. I'll be interested to see what the consensus of opinion is tomorrow at the meeting. My sister hasn't opened it yet! I told her to read the jacket cover.

I just finished Psalm for the Wildbuilt, and I immediately put a hold on the sequel at the library. It's great to read a book that I found gripping—I very much wanted to see how it ended—with such an underlying thread of kindness.

Calli, I found somewhere (off tiktok?) a list of …I dont remember what they called them—calm books? Comfort books? Cottage core? Anyway. Books like that. Many of them were ones I’d already read and loved, but a few I was able to download. I’ve really been appreciating that kind of book lately. I highly recommend Celia Lake, but I don’t know that any of her books are library ones, sadly. I gave in and bought each of them eventually! Magical England in the post WW1 era, mostly.

Thank you, meara. I'll check Celia Lake out.

OK, I have to share. I have discovered a series that essentially has Bertie Wooster solving locked room mysteries and it is thoroughly delightful. I am hearing most of the dialog and narrative description in Hugh Laurie's voice. So fun. I am sure the concept is not for everyone, but if that description sounds appealing to you, you will probably enjoy the actual books - the first one is The Case of the Canterfell Codicil.

For comfort books, I really enjoy Jenny Colgan's romances. They're mostly set in ridiculously cute small towns in the UK, where a girl from the city shows up and opens a bookstore or bakery or something, and falls in love with some unrealistically-chill local dude. The nice thing is that the books do deal with mental health and poverty, and have gay and multi-racial characters. I really like them.

Finished my reread of Gaudy Night for book club. I enjoyed it, but it is seriously classist, y'all. None more classist. I highlighted several sections with the note "yikes!"

I’m listening to My Man Jeeves and Reggie Pepper (who I guess is an early prototype of Bertie Wooster) just used the expression “streets ahead”

I’m a little shook

I'm reading The Love Hypothesis, which I had heard so many raves about but am not loving, and I just read that the author is a big Reylo writer, which honestly makes everything add up! I had turned around on the book a little halfway through, but now I'm back to ugh, I guess.

Anyone else read it?

I listened to it and thought it was fine but not great? Normally I love fake dating tropes but not when they're 100% dependent on a fifteen-second long conversation the MCs should have had in chapter 4 (but avoid for Plot Reasons until literally the last possible moment).