Though I’m certain people in spas or on dream holidays are happy, nothing can quite match the happiness of a spinster English teacher on summer holidays with uninterrupted reading time. C’est moi! My hols always begin on Canada Day and are followed by recovery-time from … Continue reading Latest reading: McCloskey, Everett, and Burke-Patel…| Miss Bates Reads Romance
How prescient it is that The Persian would arrive on my doorstep the very week that Israel bombed Iran. I watched the news in disbelief and then opened this novel to find it all the more believable.| Dolce Bellezza