Lazy Saturday

We woke to a world of muffled sounds as our area was covered with a blanket of fog.  I come from a long line of brits and irishmen who lived by the sea and long for the sounds of a fog horn when land bound.  Rarely do we get a foggy day in the Miramichi,  in Saint John it was as natural as breathing.  I love how the moisture carries the smell of the earth and the trees.   My earliest school memories are of walking home in the fog in the south end of Saint John, the smell of the sugar refinery and old houses sharp on my nose.

I read myself to sleep each night but I read more in the summer than any other time of the year.    There is nothing better than to be completely lost in a book, spending an entire day reading sprawled in the hammock or on the chesterfield in the sun room.  Saturday was a perfect stay at home and read day.

I hurried through my early morning  shopping, quickly prepared lunch and spent the rest of the day reading propped up by the numerous pillows on our bed.  My DH and kitty would join me when it was cat nap time.

This week I finished “The girl next door” by Elizabeth Noble.   When I start casting the list of characters in my head I know I’m hooked.   By chapter 5 I was working on the sound track.  This is a funny, happy and sometimes  heart rendering story of the tenants living in a New York brownstone.   Elizabeth Noble is the author of The Reading Group, The Tenko Club, and Alphabet Weekends.

Product Description – From Amazon.ca
“A gorgeous and unforgettable novel set in a turn-of-the-century brownstone on New York’s Upper East Side, The Girl Next Door follows the stories of the building’s residents, showing their lives, their loves and the way they live together.
Meet Eve Gallagher in Apartment 7A, newly moved to New York from London with her ambitious banker husband. She’s lonely and lost…until she meets elderly neighbour Violet, who’s concealing a tragic story of her own. The Kramers and the Schulmans in Apartments 6A and 6B are about to find their lives intersecting in a most unfortunate manner when Jason Kramer falls head-over-heels for Rachael Schulman.
Jackson Grayling III in Apartment 5A is 26, fantastically wealthy and a directionless layabout. He’s attracting the attention of a gold-digger in 2B even though he’s far more interested in the beautiful and hardworking Emily Milanowski in 3B. And finally, plain, dull and self-conscious Charlotte Murphy rents 2A and works in the Public Library. She lives in a dream world and is desperate to be anyone but herself. Will any of her neighbours ever take enough notice of her to help her?”

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