Chapter 32 - What's Coming Next?

In case you haven't figured my blog out yet, I love books. I don't think there is a genre which I don't/won't read especially if someone has recommended a book to me. My TBR (to be read) pile is longer than I'll ever really read in my lifetime and, to be honest, I have jettisoned books when another seems to be more promising.

September is a busy month for us. We are traveling to Maryland for a high school reunion and to see family, then heading up to New Hampshire to see our family there. I don't know that I will get a whole lot of reading in as I can't read in cars. Our trip to New Hampshire will be via air so that will give me a little time to tuck into a book. Even so I am always prepared so here are the two authors I am bringing with me on these trips

Kristy Woodson Harvey - Kristy Woodson Harvey is a relatively local (Kinston, NC) author who writes Southern fiction. Her books are character driver (as opposed to plat driven) and her characters are well defined and interesting. The book I am taking is The Wedding Veil, a 2023 book which I hadn't gotten around to reading yet. The book follows four women across the generations an the wedding veil they all have shared. In the present day, Julia Baxter is a run away bride, her grandmother, Babs, is struggling to come to grips with moving into a retirement community after the death of her husband. In the 1930's, a strange woman on a train has handed Babs a wedding veil, and in 1914 Edith Vanderbilt is trying to figure out how to keep Biltmore and the surrounding village after her husband's death.

With 12 books to her name and a new one this year, Beach House Rules, this is an author you won't want to miss.

Josie Silver - My second author whose books I always enjoy is across the pond. Josie Silver is an English writer and her first novel One Day in December was the first one I read. Apparently I have read all her books except the one I brought, The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd. In this novel, Lydia and Freddie have been together for more than a decade when Freddie is killed in an accident. As Lydia tries to move on with her life she finds herself pulled through a doorway to her past where Freddie is very much alive. Coincidentally Lydia has met someone now whom she can envisage creating a new life with. Does she go back into the past with Freddie? Can she even do that? Or does she move forward with the next Mr. Right?

So yes, two completely fluffy books for the next few weeks but when you are with family and friends and don't really have time to sink into a complicated book, isn't that what you want? Let me know your thoughts!