Tag: Virginia Evans

• My Top Ten of 2025 (and some honorable mentions)

  Last year, I documented my favorite reads of the year in an essay, My Top Ten of 2024, and it was difficult narrowing my list of 60 books read down to 10 favorites. This year, I had an equally tough time because I had a great reading year with a total of 70 books, and…

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  December 30, 2025

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  A Happy Catastrophe, Atmosphere, book-review, books, Dear Miss Lake, Every Tom Dick and Harry, fiction, literature, Murder on the Marlow Belle, My Friends, novel, reading, The Christie Affair, The Correspondent, The Homemade God, The Impossible Fortune, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer, The Wedding People, The White Octopus Hotel, This is Not About Us, Through an Open Window, top ten, Virginia Evans, writer, writing

• My November Reads

  FABULOUS month of reading! I enjoyed all of these books, but my two favorites were the two 5-star reads! And, The Correspondent may be my favorite book of 2025! I highly recommend you read it!

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  December 12, 2025

  books

  Awake: A Memoir, books, Elinor Lipman, Every Tom Dick and Harry, Jen Hatmaker, Jennifer Breedlove, literature, Murder Will Out, novel, reading, Steven Rowley, The Correspondent, The Guncle Abroad, Virginia Evans

• Book Review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

  At the start of each new year, I look back over the books I read the previous year and some years, I make a top ten list, not necessarily ranking them but always coming up with my favorite book of the year. Oh, boy, I will be having lots of trouble in January due to…

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  November 4, 2025

  books

  84 Charing Cross Road, Andrew Carnegie Medal, book-review, books, Bridget Jones Diary, Catherine Called Birdy, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, debut novel, Elizabeth Strout, epistolary style, fiction, Goodreads, Karen Cushman, literature, Love and Saffron, novel, Olive Again, Olive Kitteridge, reading, teaching, The Correspondent, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Martian, Today Will Be Different, Virginia Evans, Where’d You Go Bernadette, writer, writing

• My September Reads

  Another busy month, heavy on writing and light on reading. We have also been streaming more than usual which I may have to cut back on, but there’s a lot of good content across the streaming platforms! I have a wonderful stack of books on deck for October, starting with Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid,…

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  October 11, 2025

  books

  A Good Hard Look, A Marriage at Sea, Ann Napolitano, book-review, books, Buckeye, Chris Pavone, Florence Knapp, Geraldine Brooks, Goodreads, Jenna Bush Book Club, Kindle, Libby, library, literature, Marlow Murder Club, Memorial Days, NetGalley, nonfiction, novel, Patrick Ryan, reading, Richard Osman, Robert Thorogood, Sophie Elmhirst, Steven Rowley, The Correspondent, The Dogs of Venice, The Doorman, The Impossible Fortune, The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts, The Names, The Thursday Murder Club, Virginia Evans, writing