What are you reading? (2026)

Not About Food
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I am in awe of her spirit and dignity.

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My most recent read: Toni at Random by Dana A. Williams, about Toni Morrison’s career as a book editor at Random House.

Currently doing one of my occasional rereads of Persuasion.

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Yet another excellent essay.

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I’m working my way through Helene Tursten’s Swedish mysteries. I discovered her from reading An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good, and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed, both of which I loved.

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I must recommend that to Mrs H. She is a big fan of elderly ladies taking no shit.

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Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent is an entertaining mystery set in Oxford, UK around the offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary (stand in for the OED). A main character’s sister died in 2010, and suddenly in 2023 the office is receiving elaborately encoded letters that might have clues about her death. Postcards received by many of the characters seem to be related to the letters. The scenes are woven into observations about lexicography and philology, and the city of Oxford itself. As a first novel it drags sometimes, but picks up quickly.

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Then she’ll love these. I’d read the Up to No Good One first though. Lots of no-shit-taking!

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Almost finished with this, a whodunnit set in a TV news room.

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Late to the party!

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My son use to read his Alex Rider books

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All his mysteries are excellent. Magpie Murder series and Hawthorne and Horowitz (the author is a character in his own book). I think there is a new one this spring.

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I really enjoyed that mystery. Also recommend the Sally Smith Gabriel Ward series.

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The Robert Taylor show introduced us to Mr. Johnson. On the page, Walt’s narration is comfortingly spot on.

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