What are you reading this week? (02/20/2025)

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What book or books are you reading this week? We’d love to know!

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I just finished Three Days in June by Anne Tyler. A very fast read I like her books. Two chapters into The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison . He is a local Washington author. His books are excellent. Also rereading The Glass Castle for my bookclub.

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I’m an Anne Tyler fan, too! I’m really looking forward to reading Three Days in June - glad you liked it, Paula!

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I’m reading a book that has been on my pile for a long time - Panama Fever by Matthew Parker. It was published in 2007. I thought it might be a good warm up for the recent release - The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez.

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Allegra Goodman’s “Isola”-little known historical figure reimagined-Reese Witherspoon bookclub pick.

Just finished “The Book Censor’s Library”-strange and complex-still wrapping my head around- Time magazine best of 2024 list.

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Jonathan Evison is a favorite of mine also!

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I have finished “The Bluest Eye.” Some Black writers, no matter how many Nobel Prizes they receive, highlight on fathers raping daughters. Ralph Ellison is one other author that did so… This surely didn’t happen that much after Slavery. I give this a 2 1/2 out of five.

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@Bill_B, I beg to differ. In a 1986 study, the U.S. Dept. of Justice found that:

“Sixteen percent of the total sample had been sexually abused before age 18, and 5 percent of the sample had been sexually abused by their fathers before this age. Extrapolation indicates that 160,000 women per million in the United States have been incestuously abused before the age of 18, and 45,00 per million have been victimized by their fathers. The abuse cuts across racial, ethnic, and socioecomoic lines.”

I’d like to think things are improving across the board, but it’s such a hidden crime, who knows? In the past year, I’ve seen a number of articles that say DNA testing is revealing a “hidden epidemic of incest” in the United States. One site wrote in June 2024:

  • Consumer DNA testing services, such as 23andMe, have indicated that incest is more common than previously believed.
  • Research from UK Biobank found that 1 in every 7,000 participants was born to parents who were first-degree relatives, either siblings or a parent and child.
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I just finished The Quiet Librarian. Another great story by one of my favorite authors, Allen Eskins. I just started Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold

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Thanks for sharing, however I don’t find one in 7,000 statistically significant.

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I just finished LA Women which was an advanced reading copy. It wasn’t my cup of tea. Also read *The Mystery Guest which is in the Molly the Maid series. It was a fun read mainly because the author has created a great character in Molly, Have also just recently finished All the Broken Places and At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf—both were terrific. (WWII themes). Am just starting *The Berry Pickers.

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I’m reading Fruit of the Drunken Tree and Mask of the Deer Woman and listening to The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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Currently reading Notes On Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach.

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I finished The Jackal’s Mistress and now I’m reading The Antidote. My gosh, what a complex book! There’s a LOT going on here. I wish it was slated as an online discussion book, I think it would make a doozy of a book group choice.

I finished the Silo series in audiobook. I had a hard time finishing it. I think I was tired of the chaos by the time I hit book 3 and would have benefitted from a bit of a break. I also finished a book about a murder/podcast: Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tinera. It was quite entertaining. I just started The Murder of Mr. Ma, by John Shen Yen Nee and S. J. Rozan, and so far I’m enjoying it, but I’m not very far along.

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War of the worlds, every last one,the keepers of the house

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@kim.kovacs I read The Antidote and found it interesting. Hard to say I loved it but there were aspects that I liked a great deal. Kind of like Playground, the punch is in the ending.

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Busy night, so I hope to wake up, drink a big cup of coffee and finish “The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern.” After that, I am either going to read Newbery Winner “The First State of Being” or “Tell Me Everything” by Elizabeth Strout, one of our best storytellers.

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Just finished ‘Isola’ by Allegra Goodman (5 stars from me!) and now reading ‘The Other March Sisters’ by Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, and Liz Parker. (loving this one so far)

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Loved Isola! I’m urging all my friends to pick it up!

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Both of your books are wonderful!