What Fiction are you reading this week, December 31, 2023?

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19. I'm starting the new year by reading

The book that has been on my TBR pile the longest: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Victorian novels and I don't tend to mix well, so I expect it to be a long grind. That's why I'll read a bit of it day-to-day and at the same time tackle other books on my TBR list:

I set a goal for myself this year to read all 30+ Roderick Alleyn books by Ngaio Marsh. The first is A Man Lay Dead. My mum was a huge fan of the Marsh books, so we'll have something to talk about rather than what a disappointment I've been to her. That'll be a refreshing change.

My other series to read is the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy Sayers. The first is the novella Whose Body? I watched the BBC versions of the series ages ago, and can't wait to see how the novels compare.

Both of those books are fairly short, so I should be able to get to the latest Pentecost and Parker mystery, Murder Crosses Her Mind, by Stephen Spotswood. I have an online event to attend with the author next week. I'm hoping I'll extract enough from reading the book to ask something intelligent at the event.

If I have time, I"ll get to Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth. This is my diversity literary fic pick of the week, a saga about three orphaned children who get separated after being motorcycle couriers during the civil war in Laos.