The Good Stuff #15

Cocktails, literary lives, Austen novels - ranked, Bridget Jones, teens, and a triumvirate of thrillers

January - the month of approximately 146 days - is done. Over. Finally. As much as I might have liked to spend it hunkering down with a book (isn’t this illustration by Lore Pemberton your idea of absolute bliss? Perhaps minus the cat in my case (allergies not anathema), life and work does tend to intervene. But it is Sunday, so avail yourself of a hot …