Booking Through Thursday writes, "We haven't done anything like this for a while, so here goes..."
- What are the last five books that you finished reading? Parts one and two of The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter -- audio versions of Pride and Prejudice and Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile -- can't think of a fifth, I'm afraid, having far too many things in the half-finished stack.
- How long did it take you to read them? I read The Heaven Tree and The Green Branch together in less than a week, amazingly enough -- didn't get anything else done -- I listened to the audiobooks while knitting of an evening, and so took I think about four to six weeks here and there.
- Did you enjoy reading these books? Why or why not? I enjoyed all of these very much -- Death on the Nile I wrote about a few weeks ago, and the Pride and Prejudice read by Irene Sutcliffe is equally brilliant in its way. (Both of these are from Chivers, which is apparently now part of BBC Audiobooks, whose server seems to be on its tea break at the moment, so I can't link.) Sutcliffe's characterizations are not as dramatically varied as Suchet's, but then this is, I think, more appropriate to Austen anyway! (I will write more about The Heaven Tree when I've finished the third book.)
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