Virgins “Ian Murray knew the moment he saw his best friend’s face something terrible had happened.” This is a reread for me, but when I read it last time, the plot of the first novel and, worse, the characters were not fresh on my mind. In addition, I think this novella, like a lot of the novellas are probably meant to fill in backstory more than to be read first, as happens with a lot of similar books and stories I’ve come across, especially in […]

I did the thing where the second I was done with book two, I immediately picked up book three. I would be reading book four right now, but I have to read some other things for school first, but that’s maybe a good thing to step away for a minute. Book three is a shift in the narrative in some significant ways. In book two, Claire and her daughter (Jamie’s daughter) have returned to Scotland in 1968 for various reasons. One reason is that Roger […]

“I woke three times in the dark predawn.” I read the first book in this series about two years ago, the first summer during the Covid lockdowns, back when we were all taking our dumb little walks (I like walking). For some reason, I guess simply the length of these books put a hitch in my plan to keep reading them, because I found the first novel pretty compelling, especially the ending scenes with Claire looking into the morality of her position. At the beginning […]

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone is the ninth book in the main Outlander storyline – the action picks up pretty much immediately where the previous book left off, with the MacKenzies return to the Ridge. I’ve been stuck on what to say about this book – it’s not as if anyone is going to pick it up and not read it after investing the time for the first eight. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone is exactly what an Outlander […]