Ten Books I was Reading on this Day (August 11) over the Past 10 Years

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.The topic for Top Ten Tuesday this week was to go back and list the books I was reading on August 11th in the previous ten years. I used Goodreads to find the books but I did find that in some cases it was hard to determine exactly what I was reading on that day, and I just winged it.2025Perplexing Plots by David BordwellPublished in 2023Bordwell was an influential film scholar; this book, the last one he published, focuses on crime fiction and films in the 1900s up to more recent times. He discusses the development of crime fiction plots and narratives and notes the same developments in plays and film of that time.2024A Great Reckoning by Louise PennyPublished in 2016.The mysteries in this series are always rewarding. Usually very complex and sometimes circuitous and perplexing, they keep me guessing. I never even came close to suspecting the perpetrator in this book. Louise Penny is very good at creating characters we…