“You must know that feeling when it’s raining outside and the heating’s on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.”
2017 was filled with a lot of wonderful books, and choosing the top favourites, as always, is not an easy task. Looking back, there are quite a few books that I not only loved reading, but that left an impression and that I would happily reread over and over again. Here are my top seven of the year! Continue reading “A Year in Review: Favourite Books of 2017”
The Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series is based around Armand Gamache, the Chief Inspector of Homicide of the Sûreté du Québec. It follows him and his partner Jean Guy along with a variety of characters of a small fictional Quebec village called Three Pines. The novels are well-written, suspenseful, and I have been a big fan ever since I stumbled across the eight book in the series, The Beautiful Mystery a couple of years ago. Soon after, I had read each book and have continued to follow the series ever since. Some books I enjoyed a lot, others a little less, and a couple not so much. Here is my ranking of the books in the series, from my favourite to least favourite. (no spoilers)
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