[Magdalen] favorite book(s) from 2024?

[Juli Tarsney]

I haven't read Louise Penny's latest yet, but I've read or listen to all of
the others – love them! (I based my own response on what I read in 2024,
few of which were 2024 releases.)

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> This isn't from 2024 (except the last book in the series), but I LOVED the
> entire Louise Penny/ Chief Inspector Gamache series. A little more
> substantial than "cozy mysteries," but not enough to give nightmares. Also
> loved Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series (historical fiction, not thrillers).
>
>
> Ann
> The Reverend Ann Markle
> Buffalo,  NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 8:55 AM Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I read and enjoyed them as well!
> >
> > Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>