Alright you guys, you do know that Persephone Reading Weekend is coming up right? Nevermind that I still haven’t finished my book from the Virago Reading week but I’m jumping in on this readalong because I have a thing for those grey covered books.

Last year I read Mariana by Monica Dickens which I didn’t love as much as I had other Persphone books mainly because I think I was expecting something a bit different. I only have three books but they all sound good to me so I thought I’d reach out to you and maybe help me decide which book to read.

• Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Lanski. A poet returns to France to trace a child lost five years before.
• Someone At A Distance by Dorothy Whipple. A tale of a destruction of a marriage.
• Good Evening Mrs. Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes. Exploring aspects of English domestic life during the war.

These all sound so good don’t they?

What about you, are you participating and have you decided what you’ll read yet?

I know February isn’t over yet but hopefully no more DNFs this month as I’ve already had two. For me to count a book as not finished, it’s one where I’ve invested a bit more time. One where I’ve actually gone way past my 30ish page rule.

The first one was The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg. I love Scandinavian crime ficiton but this story which features a writer who stumbles across the dead body of a friend and all of a sudden is involved in solving the mystery just didn’t really make an impression on me. I felt like there were too many extra little plots which kept the investigation from moving along.

The other book was Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski. This is one I was really looking forward to but somehow just didn’t deliver for me. The story is about missionaries in a village in Thailand. The descriptions of Thailand, the foods and setting where very atmospheric but the unraveling of the mystery seemed to take forever. I didn’t even care anymore. I just seemed to lose my patience with this one.

So I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this is it for DNFs. Alright now to settle down with a good book (hopefully!) for tonight.