Just had a lovely weekend visit with my sister, who drove in from Indiana, and her best friend from high school, who drove down from Maine.  My sister, Jim, and I made a visit to the best used bookstore I know, the Barrow Bookstore in Concord, and there I saw a copy of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.  Lisa’s teen book group read this a couple of months back and loved it, so I splurged and bought the copy (so much for my ban on purchasing books…). 

I’ve only read a couple of chapters so far, but I LOVE the book.  I’m especially intrigued to find out why Lisa thinks the narrator is a lot like me (so far I don’t see it), but mostly I’m just enjoying Smith’s writing style.

Also in my to-be-read pile:  Cyrano by Geraldine McCaughrean, and The New Policeman by Kate Thompson.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is at the bottom of my book pile, since I’ve already read the epilogue and was left rather cold and un-anxious to tackle that lengthy book.  Sometime, sometime, but not yet, thank you.