January Books

These are the books I read in January:

January Books
Girls, Visions and Everything - Sarah Schulman
Pippa in Switzerland - E E Ohlson
That Aggravating Schoolgirl - Grace Stebbing
The Willoughby Captains - Talbot Baines Reed
Adrienne and the Chalet School - Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
Sally Scatterbrain - Dorita Fairlie Bruce
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Little Boy Lost - Marghanita Laski
The Circus is Coming - Noel Streatfeild
The Bronte Girls - Garry Kilworth
Vice Versa - F Anstey
The Team - K M Peyton
Brother Jacob - George Eliot
Flashman - George Macdonald Fraser
Citizen Girl - Nicola Kraus and Emma McLoughlin
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Afterwards - Claire Hennessy
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
Hilda Annersley, Headmistress - Lesley Green
A Chalet School Librarian - Pat Willimott

That's four rereads, and also two of my new year's reading resolutions - I wanted to read Three Men in a Boat and some Thomas Hardy, which I have. Sadly, one of my other resolutions was to use the library more, and I only got one book out. Of these, I really liked The Willoughby Captains and Flashman. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets I did really enjoy. I might have enjoyed it more had it not been compared to Mitford, but it was still a lovely read. Little Boy Lost was terribly sad but awfully good. I'm afraid I didn't like the two Chalet fill-ins very much. They were an okay read, but for starters they were very badly edited, and in some cases completely OOC, and rather stilted.