On the train tonight I spied someone reading Alan Bradley’s wonderful “Sweetness At The Bottom of the Pie.” My first thought was how much I enjoyed the book and its plucky heroine, Flavia De Luce . (And how it was a shame I wasn’t equally charmed by the second book in the series, The Weed That Strings The Hangman’s Bag – coming in April.)
My second thought was that I would not have been thinking about the book at all if I hadn’t seen the cover- I’ll miss these visual reminders as eBooks takeover.
On the other hand, sometimes I don’t want people to play I Spy with what I’m reading. After I close the lid on the computer I will go to bed. But before I shut the light I intend to curl up to read a few pages of my guilty pleasure.
Who am I kidding, while I call it my guilty pleasure, it is no secret I love the Outlander series. And by all rights I’d have long ago finished the latest installment, “An Echo In The Bone.” But I want it to last, it will be so long before the next installment. I have been eking out the pages as if it were being delivered a wee bit at a time off a boat, ala 19th century Charles Dickens.