[Magdalen] favorite book(s) from 2024?

[Lesley de Voil]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 11:50, Juli Tarsney <juli at tarsney.net> wrote:

> It's good to hear from all of you, some of whom I do see on Facebook. I
> have such good memories of St Sam's and then Magdalen, and I do value my
> abiding connection with the Anglican world, as embodied by each of you ...
>
> I'll chime in here on the books question -- a more straightforward
> assignment than the "update" one :-)
>
> After a look at Goodreads: My very favorites included two novels by David
> Nicholls (One Day and Us) and, much earlier in the year and on the
> non-fiction front, Liz Cheney's memoir (audio version -- highly
> recommended). On the Anglican theme, I read Glittering Images by Susan
> Howatch ... I had been assuming this was a reread, but it didn't feel at
> all familiar to me, so I think the book I remember reading years ago was
> actually a later title in the series. At any rate, I'd kind of like to read
> the whole series, but since then I've been sidetracked ... the story of my
> reading life.


I think I've read all the Starbridge novels - probably not in the correct
chronological order, but  I can't check now. I hope they're in one of the
boxes in our back shed (I couldn't bear to throw them out !) I enjoyed them
all. I often wonder what my mother-in-law (wife of a sometime CofE Vicar
and postgrad.student of JRR Tolkein, brought up Unitarian) would have made
of them, but she died before they started to come out.

Lesley de Voil

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