What book or books are you reading this week? Please share! We’d love to know.
Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate. The story moves back and forth from 1909 and 1990 with the earlier storyline about orphaned or abandoned children in southeast Oklahoma. When the bodies of three young children are found in a cave up in the mountains in 1990, Park Ranger Valerie Boren-Odell is determined to uncover the mystery of their deaths. I’m still unsure about the identities of the children although there are clues. It’s holding my interest during these holidays!
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Just finished Orbital. What a beautiful book! It was quite thought-provoking. Next will be Frozen River for the upcoming BookBrowse discussion.
In audiobook format, I’m still finishing Michael J. Sullivan’s latest. I’m enjoying it a bit more, but not his finest work. He hasn’t published one in this series in 7 years, and I feel like he lost track of his characters a bit. I’ll probably go with the latest in Craig Alanson’s Expeditionary Force series - Task Force Hammer, the 17th(!) book in the series. Those books lost their magic some time ago, but have just enough oomph to get me to continue.
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@NanK I hadn’t heard of that one but it sounds fascinating!
She wrote Before We Were Yours, which you might have read (2017). That story is about children who were sold for adoption and based on a real scandal. I haven’t read any others, but Wingate has a “gentle, tender” style.
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Just got Havoc by Christopher Bollen from my holds list at the library and it is a good one so far. Then finishing The Lost Bookshop.
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I have Havoc on my Libby hold list. Glad to hear you like it.
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I thought Orbital was amazing. Subtle, beautifully written, thought-provoking.
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Reading “Hard By A Great Forest” by Leo Vardiashvili. Mentioned by @Sarah_C as one of her 2024 favorites. It is soooooo good! I hadn’t even heard of the book until Sarah mentioned it.
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The God of the Woods and also The Shadow of the Wind. The Shadow of the Wind is slow going, but I’m hanging in there.
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I’m listening to THE WORLD SHE EDITED by Amy Reading, a bio of Katharine White who edited The New Yorker magazine for many years. And reading THE BOOKLOVER’S LIBRARY by Madeline Martin, a h/f taking place in London during WWII. And I just started dipping into WATER, WATER, Billy Collins newest book of poetry.
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i’m reading the once and future king (again) and loving it (again).
i’m listening to “brotherless night”, which i am enjoying (but not as much as the once and future king).
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I promised myself that I’d read a couple fun/easy read books between Christmas and the first part Jan 2025. I started “Of Mutts and Men” by Spencer Quinn which is a mystery about a private PI and his dog partner Chet. If you are a dog lover, you’ll really enjoy this book because the book is written from the perspective of the dog which is pretty hilarious.
That will be followed by “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I have not read books involving time travel (they boggle my mind), but time travel limited to the time it takes to cool off a cup of coffee sounded too intriguing to pass up reading.
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This week reading my Christmas gift, This Sweet Magic and looking forward to reading some of my Joan Didion books.
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I just finished This is Happiness by Niall Williams and loved it so I immediately started Time of the Child. It is not actually a sequel, more of a companion novel. Same setting but focuses on different characters.
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Just finished a YA book, Simon Sort of Says, by Erin Bow. I needed something with humor and this filled that need. I laughed out loud a number of times.
Also just finished Crow Mary, by Kathleen Grissom. Interesting historical fiction based on the life of a real Indigenous woman.
I’m about to start All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. My hold copy just arrived from the library. Lucky me - I live so far out in the boonies that the library delivers my books by mail.
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I just finished The Serviceberry by Robin Wall-Kimmerer. It was short but so profound, thought-provoking and a call to action.
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Just raced through the Ashe Cayne series of mystery/thriller/procedurals by Ian K Smith.
I’m slowly working my way through The Serviceberry.
Will soon finish the audio of Dixon Descending by Karen Outen.
Finishing up the year with an arc of Money, Lies, and God by Katherine Stewart. It’s horrifying but important for awareness.
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
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I really enjoyed Heaven and Earth Grocery once I got into it.
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