I'm so sorry to hear about your flight delays -- yuck. I loved the link for the Moorish castle -- so amazing! I can't imagine the atmosphere with stormy hail...but I'm hoping it's had a sense of spookiness!
Glad you managed to get home ok. Delayed flights are never fun ✈️ Have you got any good recommendations for books set in Boston / New England or bookish places to visit there? I’m sure you have!
I haven’t read any Jane Austen so it is on my list of goals for the year.
Having a library ladder is on my list of goals for life.
I love both of these goals. Do you know which Austen you're going to read first?
I'm so sorry to hear about your flight delays -- yuck. I loved the link for the Moorish castle -- so amazing! I can't imagine the atmosphere with stormy hail...but I'm hoping it's had a sense of spookiness!
It was very spooky and foggy and wet. So wet. Like, we were SOAKED from head to toe. Our friend's umbrella was struck by lightning!
Glad you managed to get home ok. Delayed flights are never fun ✈️ Have you got any good recommendations for books set in Boston / New England or bookish places to visit there? I’m sure you have!
Books!
The Giant's House - unusual friendship between a small-town librarian and a freakishly tall boy in 1950s Cape Cod - https://strongsenseofplace.com/books/the_giants_house_mccracken/
The Lioness of Boston - novelization of Isabella Stewart Gardner's life, the woman behind the museum of the same name - https://strongsenseofplace.com/lolts/lolt-2023-05-12/
The Arctic Fury - historical adventure about the Franklin expedition to find the North Passage, reset as a story about women - takes place in 19th-century Boston and the Arctic https://strongsenseofplace.com/books/the_arctic_fury_macallister/
The Midcoast - literary crime novel set in Boston and Maine - https://strongsenseofplace.com/books/the_midcoast_white/
And this is a fun bookshop - Brattle Books - https://strongsenseofplace.com/2019/11/19/our-favorite-bookshops-brattle-books-in-boston/
Great! Thanks for all those recs.