She wasn’t quite sure which text to start with, but felt that if she just started somewhere, a plan would develop as she went along. The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance as surely as her body needed its fuel.
Excerpt from Maisie Dobbs by Jaqueline Winspear

After two recent books that were creepy and horrific in some of the descriptions I knew I needed something a bit lighter. I finally picked up Maisie Dobbs and so far I’m enjoying it a lot.

Don’t you just love it when an author gives us a character who is also a bookworm?

I’ll be back tomorrow with a couple of book reviews and other bookish stuff.

The Summer Reading Challenge is coming to a close. It was fun participating and I even connected with a few more book bloggers.

So what’s the next logical step? Another challenge! Carl V. is asking readers to accept it at their own risk. The Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) Autumn Challenge starts this weekend and goes through October 31 (my favorite Holiday).

The quest involves reading 5 books that are scary, eerie, moody, gothic, unsettling, etc. Check out his site for details, book suggestions and to find out what the prize will be. Yes, there’s a prize!

I recently mentioned the four horror Classics I bought: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Turn of the Screw. Some others I might consider are The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton or even The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

I’m not sure which ones I’ll end up reading. I have a problem making reading lists in advance, but I’ll try to read five books. I’ll keep you posted on which ones make it to my nightstand.