#book recommedations

I’ve just started reading Josephine Tey’s novel Miss Pym Disposes and I’m only three pages in, but I’m just chortling with glee. So far we’ve learned that Miss Pym:

*refuses to get up any earlier than 7.30am

*rolls her hair every night against the wishes of “her weaker self” and wakes up feeling smug enough about it to sleep in a little longer (truly a woman after my own heart)

*quit teaching after the death of a parent and bought herself a nice little flat, in which she lives on the small but steady income of her investments (100% something I would do if I were left a legacy)

*rage read all 37 (!) existent psychology books published (!!) at the time (book was published in 1948) and was so incensed by them that she wrote her own in rebuttal

*accidentally sent a page of the manuscript to a publisher by means of writing a persnickety complaint about the neighbor’s noise on the back of one of the pages

*was so astonished by becoming a Bestselling Author that she “went out and had three cups of black coffee and sat in the [Regents] Park looking straight in front of her for the rest of the morning”.

I’m dying. I’m about to teleport into this book and propose Boston Marriage to this woman. Let’s see what mischief she gets up to, eh?