Read recently: Pomfret Towers by Angela Thirkell

Description: There’s a party at Pomfret Towers, and Alice Barton is invited. She doesn’t want to go, but her mother makes her, and her brother Guy will be there. The weekend at the towers changes the lives of a lot of people, most notably Alice herself.

The Good: Well, Thirkell is no Georgette Heyer, but she is pretty funny. She also does a good job at making actual characters, as opposed to caricatures. She handles the various subplots marvelously, and the whole thing feels realistic and amusing, rather than farsical and over the top. And while this book was classified as a romance, I wasn't expecting the couples to end up the way they did, which was in this case, mostly OK.

The Bad: Not really a whole lot. Except that the reader who narrated this book speaks with a pronounced twang, so it was jarrin to hear her read British accents.

Overall: It's a cute story, and it's short. Recommended.

Next up Jean Shepherd's In God We Trust: All Others Must Pay Cash which was made into that perennial favorite holiday movie “A Christmas Story”. BTW, I’m loving this book so far, so all of you who were expecting the snark will sadly be disappointed.