Hasn’t it just been so cold! And the rain!!! I hope you have found the sleeping so easy, and the weather just making for more reading time! I know I have been reading lots and hot chocolate has never tasted so good!
I thought this month I would go with cold reads; it is so fun to read seasonally, I read The Christmas Bookshop just last Christmas, and it was fine but honestly they do a lots of hot chocolate reading in this novel and I think it will work even better as a winter read!
Jenny Colgan has written with The Christmas Bookshop a love letter to Scottish winters! It is freezing in these pages, and so fun to be rugged up while you are reading about it! It is also the loveliest love story of community and bookshops within them..I just loved this story and think it will make a great cosy June read!
I loved The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon, it is set in 1780s Maine and it s freezing!!!!! We get to follow Martha a 50 odd wife, mother and midwife. Of course I loved all the births and seeing how much has changed and what much has stayed the same.. but what I really appreciated in this novel was the adult relationships, the love a wife has for a long term husband, The love a mother has for her adult children, seeing that life is long…(I don’t know what that says about me!)I just absolutely loved this one, and being under a lap blanket while Martha is riding against the wind in pitch-black night.. what a great reading experience!!
I adore The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, its a classic for a reason isn’t it! I was so sure I wouldn’t enjoy it as an adult but actually I loved it so much I read the whole series! CS Lewis has written a masterpiece with this novel; all the winter feels!
Dervla McTiernan has gifted us anther Cormac Reily novel and I was beside myself reading it! I have read, and loved the series but I think it would work just as well as a standalone novel. The Unquiet Grave has all the bog bodies, a serial killers and a lottery heist you could want and you had better believe these characters are wearing big jackets and multiple pairs of socks; it is cold, wet and so miserable in this novel! What more could you want in a June read!
The Wolf Tree is another very atmospheric novel, another thriller of a story, this one is set off the Scottish coast; probably a good chance for our detectives to drink tea and make small talk…or is it? Hahaha completely no spoilers here, I’ll only say it was so clever, such a page turner and will have you reaching for another blanket! I loved this debut by Australian author Laura McCluskey
I couldn’t think of any Australian winter romances, can you? Lots and lots of thrillers, and I’ll mention Ashley Kalagian Blunt will be at Sutherland Library this month to chat Cold Truth! I loved that novel!!! And Dead Horse Gap, that is another triller set in the Snowy Mountains..any Dinuka McKenzie would be perfect winter reads…but where are the winter romcoms? What have I forgotten?
