På söndagarna är det dags för En smakebit på söndag som Astrid Therese Betraktninger håller i. Alla delar med sig ett stycke ur den bok en just nu läser. Inga spoilers!
Den här veckan har verkligen bjudit på alla slags väder. På onsdag och torsdag var det över 30 grader varmt. Tur att det blåste. Sedan sjönk temperaturen med mer än 20 grader på fredagen och det regnade.
Jag har läst flera riktigt bra böcker: Kärlek på Hedgehog Hollow, Giftmakerskan och The Bromance Book Club.
Vi har också sett på Nine Perfect Strangers-serien (baserad på boken av Liane Moriarty) och har börjat se på The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Denna veckas smakebit kommer från The Essex Serpent av Sarah Perry, från sidan 21:
Cora watched the evening’s performance with an interested detachment. There in the nave, obscuring the altar – in a coffin resting on what resembled a butcher’s trestle – was her husband’s body, which she did not recall having ever seen in it’s entirety, only in small and sometimes panicked glimpses of very white flesh laid thinly over beautiful bones.
It struck her that really she’d known nothing of him in his public life , which was carried out in (she imagined) identical rooms in the Commons, and in his Whitehall set, and in the club which she could not attend, having the misfortune to be female. Perhaps he dealt elsewhere with kindness – yes: perhaps that was it – perhaps she’d been a kind of clearing-house for cruelties deserved elsewhere. There was a kind of nobility in that, if you thought about it: she looked down at her hands as if expecting the notion to have raised stigmata.