I've
read these books for the Mount TBR Reading Challenge hosted over at My Reader’s Block from January 1 –
December 31, 2015. The challenge is to read books that you already own.
Bones of
Contention – Edward Candy
Epitaph for a
Lobbyist – R. B. Dominic
The Unknown Weapon
– Andrew Forrester
Cecil N. De Mille:
A Life in Art – Simon Louvish
Single &
Single – John LeCarre
The Reluctant Art
– Benny Green
Ghosts of the
Carolinas – Nancy Roberts
What Jazz is All
About – Lillian Erlich
The Painswick Line
– Henry Cecil
Jazz in Short
Measures – Lewis Rosengarten
1/ Who has been your favorite character so far? And tell
us why, if you like.
The vicar in The Painswick Line did not have a large
part, but he was always fun in his scenes. He was able to pick winning horses
so everybody wanted to ingratiate themselves with him.
2/ Have any of the books you read surprised you--if so,
in what way (not as good as anticipated? unexpected ending? Best thing you've
read ever?
The jazz books were much more technical than I expected –
and knowing nothing about music as a subject with its own terminology I felt out of my depth. As for fiction, Single & Single was much more
engrossing than I thought it was going to be – I was able to finish it in only a couple of days.
3/ Which book (read so far) has been on your TBR mountain
the longest?
I think I had Cecil
N. De Mille: A Life in Art for four years before I got around
to it. It was worth the wait because Louvish is a very precise writer, with a
humane point of view, good sense of movie history.
Thanks for checking in! A nice mix of books.
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