Back from two gorgeous weeks in Haliburton, Ontario.  The weather was almost perfect and even the cool days were considered a relief from this sweltering summer.  We were swimming right up until the last day. However, the glorious weather meant I did not accomplish as much as I might have hoped on the writing front (sure, blame the weather for it). However, it was a banner year for reading, though the photo doesn’t do it justice.

The physical books not pictured covered being a Venetophile (No Vulgar Hotel, Judith Martin) and a book about synesthesia as research for the novel.

On the ebook side, I devoured everything from The Riviera Set (about royalty, artists, and Russian mobsters on the Riviera), Kelly Barnhill’s excellent Dreadful Young Ladies, a reread of The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of A Lady: Travels into Spain by Marie-Catherine D’Aulnoy.  All told, I polished off 22 books in 2 weeks.  Not bad.