Once a month I pick three books I own but have yet to read and ask you all to help me choose which to read next. In July you all voted for Rules of Civility by Amor Towles so that’s now in the queue for later this month.
Another month has arrived and so it’s time to dip into my TBR Book Jar. Here are the three books chosen at random this month
From the TBR Book Jar this month I’ve randomly picked out
The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gales
I found this in a charity book shop and since I’ve read — and enjoyed — two other novels by Patrick Gale, it made sense not to pass by a bargain. The blurb tells me that it’s about a woman in her mid forties who has to abandon her life in Paris to return to England and care for her elderly mother. Then she sees the man who was the great love of her student days. Just one problem — he’s married. Goodreads describes it as “a bittersweet love story, shot through with an understanding of mortality, memory and the difficulty of being good.”
The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield
Have I really had this book on my shelves for ten years? I think it’s considered a modern day classic which has enchanted readers since it was published in 1930. Maybe it’s depiction of daily life in a frugal English household will also charm me?
The Girl in the Photograph by Lydia Fagundes Telles
This is an even older resident of the TBR book shelf. I bought it on the strength of recommendations from some work colleagues in Brazil. They told me it’s Telles’s best known novel, a tale of the friendship of three young women a period of political upheaval following a coup.
And the vote goes to …….
I’ve had problems with the function within WordPress which enables me to generate a poll. So instead I’ll go back to basics and ask you which of these three books you would recommend I read next.