I hope you have lovely, socially distanced plans for this weekend – maybe the last of our sunny weather here in the UK? Well, there’s already an autumnal snap in the air (and a hole in my roof, leaking water into the living room… thankfully fixed now, and somehow it managed to leak in about the only place where books aren’t piled up. Phew!)
Whatever you have planned, here’s a book, a blog post, and a link. Oh, and make sure you’re registered to vote if you qualify for American elections! Please help protect the rest of us who can’t vote there. And yes, I’ll nail my colours to the mast, that means voting the Biden/Harris ticket. At this point I’ve stopped even pretending to have sympathy for people who would vote for somebody as cruel, narcissistic, ignorant, racist, sexist, and unpresidential as Trump.
Welp, that got more political than this blog has ever been, I suspect! Here’s the normal bookish stuff…
1.) The blog post – please check out Ali’s wonderful list of 10 Vintage Books of Joy. It’s not the usual sort of book list you see, because many of these are a little out-of-the-way – but they’re all brilliant. Well, the eight I’ve read are, and I’ve now bought Something Light to add to my sprawling Margery Sharp collection.
2.) The book – I have a review copy of this on the way, but thought I’d mention now: Felix Unbound by Cathy Gunn. What would happen if your cat turned into a human? I love animal metamorphosis stories (and wrote about them in my DPhil – Lady Into Fox is wonderful) and so I hope this lives up to its premise and its promise.
3.) The link – the British Library shop is doing 3-for-2 on fiction paperbacks and you KNOW that includes the British Library Women Writers series! And, indeed, preorders. So I heartily recommend you get your mitts on them soon – let me know if you want advice about which to choose…