Tuesdays begin like any other day. I rise before the sun, make a carafe of coffee, then return to bed to read The New York Times on my laptop. My wife has made me promise to wake her with news that Donald Trump is dead. The Environment Canada website is next, followed by The Globe & Mail. I then take a tour of my favourite book blogs. On Tuesdays I make a point of visiting That Artsy Reader Girl. For six years now, Jenna has been hosting Top Ten Tuesday in which she suggests topics to we fellow bookish people. A few examples:
Much as I've enjoyed the responses, I'd never participated. This changed with today's prompt: Books I Was Reading On This Day Over the Last Ten Years.Books I Disliked But Am Glad I ReadThe Longest Books I've Ever ReadBooks I'd Give Different Titles To
It was interesting to revisit summer reads from years past. Published in 1872, James De Mille's The American Baron was the oldest. I Am Not Guilty was by far my favourite of the ten titles. Read in 2019, I liked it so much as to return it to print the following year as part of the Véhicule Press Ricochet series.
I was less impressed by the author's 1949 Harlequin Lost House, which is not to suggest that there aren't others deserving revival... Well, maybe just one. Long time readers will know which:
2025
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Onoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton] New York: Harper, 1901 |
2024
James De Mille
New York: Harper & Bros, 1872
2023
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| The Weak-Eyed Bat Collected Millar: The First Detectives Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 |
2022
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| Lost House Frances Shelley Wees Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1949 |
2021
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| One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame Robert Barr New York: Stokes, 1896 |
2020
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| The Darling Illusion Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1954 |
2019
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| M'Lord, I Am Not Guilty Frances Shelley Wees New York: Doubleday, 1954 |
2018
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| Doors of the Night Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp Clark, 1922 |
2017
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| Caught in the Snare: The Sequel to Edith Percival May Agnes Fleming New York: Street & Smith, [c. 1917] |
2016
Hulbert Footner
New York: Collier, n.d..
For the record, I'm currently reading Lot's Wife, John Glassco's 1975 translation of La femme de Loth by Monique Bosco.
As I write, Donald Trump is still alive.
Related posts:
A Red, White and Blue Baron: For Minnie's Sake
Margaret Millar's Muskoka Murder Mystery
Dope. Danger. One Doll.
Double Fantasy
They Fell in Love With the Actress
Domestic Suspense in Small Town Ontario
Familiar to Hundreds (including Mike Myers?)
Soldiering On With Edith Percival
Cheese! What a Story!
Margaret Millar's Muskoka Murder Mystery
Dope. Danger. One Doll.
Double Fantasy
They Fell in Love With the Actress
Domestic Suspense in Small Town Ontario
Familiar to Hundreds (including Mike Myers?)
Soldiering On With Edith Percival
Cheese! What a Story!
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