My William & Mary Alumni Chapter book club selected The Ladies of Grace Adieu (2006) a short story collection by Susanna Clarke for this month’s selection. Clarke does a good imitation of Regency-era English fairy tales. Of course I have no interest in reading Regency-era English fairy tales much less their modern imitation. But I was a good do-bee and soldiered through the book and after a while I found myself, well, enchanted. While overall this is not my thing, some of the stories were better than others and it made it bearable to read instead of an obligation. I particularly like the stories about how the Duke of Wellington rescues himself from fairies by embroidering, the story of a snobbish country rector/doctor who outwits a malicious ferry, and the story of the construction of the fairy bridge at fairy. The rest is meh.
So I made it through this book, and discussed it at book club, but I don’t expect to read any more Susanna Clarke anytime soon.
Panorama of the Mountains 
Just how fast do you read!?!? You put the rest of us to shame.
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Unlike the books you read (ex – Song of Ice and Fire), this is a short book.
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A malicious ferry? Does it sink on purpose in the middle of the English Channel.
And despite what Liam says, he does read mountains of books in quick time.
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And spells homonyms pourly.
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