Monthly round-up - April

• Brotherly Love by Elizabeth Pewsey - re-read
• A Blunt Instrument by Georgette Heyer
• Unholy Harmonies by Elizabeth Pewsey - re-read
• Divine Comedy by Elizabeth Pewsey - re-read
• The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
• Children of Chance by Elizabeth Pewsey - re-read
• The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
• Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson
• Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn
• The Secret Ministry of Frost by Nick Lake
• Be Your Own Landscape Detective by Richard Muir
• Abarat by Clive Barker
• The Cat Who Sang to the Birds by Lilian Jackson Braun

 There was lots of re-reading in April which, as in every other year, was demanding and exhausting - looking back, it seemed to go on for a long time, too! It wasn't the ideal time to develop a mild obsession with the visible signs of history in the landscape, so that the two books I borrowed from the library will go back unfinished - mind you, we have a copy of one of them - Oliver Rackham's History of the English Countryside - somewhere, if only I could find it! Most frustrating. The obsession is linked to my Rosemary Sutcliffe reading, which is progressing rather slowly at the moment, as I want to write proper posts about the books. However, it's now several weeks since I read Eagle of the Ninth - may have to go back and re-read in order to write about it!

I have to organise myself over more than just my private Sutcliffe challenge - there are posts to write for both the Once Upon a Time Challenge and the Canadian Book Challenge. And I'd thought about writing a post on Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary, but Nymeth has written about it much more sensitively than I would have done, so I can't do better than to point you to her ever-thoughtful blog.