Welcome to our annual winter reading poll! Tell us about a great book to curl up with on a frosty winter night, and what fragrance we should wear while reading it. (Or, do what I do and record here everything you have read since the last reading poll. And if you want more recommendations, scrolling through the literature tag will bring up all the older reading polls.)

My recent reading:

I finished Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, which I started in the summer of 2020 and then set aside for a very long time…

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PSA: the splitmeet will start next Saturday, on the 22nd.

Meanwhile, please recommend a great book to add to our fall reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.

Or, as always, just talk about something else.

I read an awful lot this quarter, partly because I was ill for a good chunk of it…

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Welcome to our annual summer reading poll! (And if you want more recommendations, see fall, winter and spring.

Author birthdays this weekend: Ann Radcliffe, Barbara Cartland, Oliver Sacks, June Jordan and Dean Koontz on Saturday; Marcel Proust, Jean Kerr and Alice Munro on Sunday.

The poll: please recommend a great book to add to our summer reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.

My recent reading…

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PSA: the swapmeet is open through Tuesday! Meanwhile, it’s almost May so it must be time for the spring reading poll (or, if you’re reading this on Sunday, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit and welcome to May).

Please recommend a great book to add to our reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it. Or, as always, just talk about something else.

What I’ve read since our winter reading poll…

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