What are you reading this week? Please share! We’d love to know.
I finished Becoming Madam Secretary and enjoyed it very much. I thought it was perfectly crafted historical fiction, and I’m looking forward to the discussion next week. I just started Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell. It’s a fast but intense read about a woman trying to leave her emotionally abusive husband. The main character’s experiences certainly feel dead-on real, and the writing is stellar.
From an audiobook standpoint… have you ever agreed to read something because someone else really liked it and insisted? Well, that’s kind of where I’m at with my latest audiobook: Earthcore by Scott Sigler. Man, the writing is bad. I love my husband dearly, and he’s a very smart, creative person, but his taste in books and music tends to be a bit trashy. Oh well. The things we do for love! The only saving grace is that the narrator is an actor we saw many times in plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, so that’s kinda fun.
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One Two Three by Laurie Frankel for my book club. Just starting…
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I just finished History of Rain by Niall Williams and loved it. Williams has an ear for Irish dialogue. The narrator is a young girl who tells her family’s story, finding her father through the books he read. Water is everywhere, in the rain, the river, the sea, the puddles, and streaking down her skylights. It’s story telling at it’s best. A slow read best read on a rainy day.
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The Lion Women of Tehran!
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I am currently reading: a house to call home, by Igal Sarna. How he is making his home in Portugal.
Also reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
And just finished the safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Won the booker prize. The book is good but not that good. The beginning was slow very slow.
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Orbital was an adventure!
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I am currently re-reading ‘The Hobbit’ along with two true-crime books.
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I recently finished Actress by Anne Enright. I didn’t like it as much as The Gathering, and recently read a comment that insists The Green Road is her best novel, so now it’s on my ‘to be read’ list.
Today I finished a crime fiction novel, The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens. Gripping story and a compelling read. I gobbled this one up and plan to read more if this author’s books.
I’m also slowly reading Pride & Prejudice, and just starting Muriel Spark’s short novel titled The Driver’s Seat.
I have many titles saved in my ‘For Later’ shelf on my library’s website, and hope I live long enough to read them all!
Just finished reading The Holy Road by Michael Blake for my book club and listening to Gilgamesh, one of James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read Before You Die. Currently trying to get The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison read for BookBrowse’s First Impressions Book Discussion.
I’m in the midst of a deep reading slump and think it’s due to having to read “obligatory” books rather than just being able to pick one I want to read. I’m also finding what’s going on in Washington to be hugely worrisome and distracting to the point it’s very difficult to settle myself enough to read.
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I just finished Ina Garten’s “Be Ready When Luck Happens”. I knew very little about the Barefoot Contessa prior to the book. It was an easy read, most of which I enjoyed while on a plane in audiobook format, narrated by Ina herself.
Also reading (and listening too) “Birding to Change the World” by Trish O’Kane. So engaging - a combination of memoir, activism, and nature, with a focus on birds. This book is bound to end up on my lifetime favorites list. Love it.
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Hahah. Yes, I have been given “must-reads” by my mom and muddled through them because she has read things I’ve given her. So it’s only fair to try. 
I am reading The Frozen River and trying to finish an arc of The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Thank you BookBrowse!).
Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs
I’m reading THE RHINO KEEPER by Jillian Forsberg. I’m loving it. Chapters are short but with great content. Will be discussing this book for book club. So far everyone likes it.
Enemy Women by Paulette Giles.