20!

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day was wonderful. Very funny and sweet. Better than the movie (which was also wonderful)! I loved the style it was written in. It was a quick read, but filled with memorable characters finding themselves in tight (but hilarious) jams. When I was done reading, I was almost as exhausted as Miss Pettigrew was in the story's end! The only real difference between the book and the movie was a few character changes and omissions.

Winifred Watson was one of those authors who sort of disappeared after writing a few novels- I don't think any of her other works are available anywhere. Too bad. I've heard that they're all similar in theme- women getting second chances in life- but Miss Pettigrew was the only one with a light tone.

So that's twenty books for 2008. Thirty to go! I'll have two weeks almost to myself this summer, so I'll have plenty of time to read.

I'm picking up more Hamish Macbeth stories. Death of a Gossip is next, then Death of a Cad and Death of a Snob.

I'm up to chapter seven of Post Captain. I'm behind the rest of the reading group! I'll finish that one this week, just so I can get ahead!