What are you reading this week? Please share! We’d love to know.
Finishing up The Ghostwriter for the upcoming discussion and I’m really enjoying it. My next book will be an earlier novel by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu: The Quality of Mercy. After that, it’ll likely be The Lamplighter’s Bookshop.
In audiobook format, I just started Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray, the first in her Daughter of Cleopatra series (and I think it might be her first novel, too). I was a bit hesitant at first, because there’s a bit of magic thrown in which generally isn’t my thing, but I’m absolutely blown away by the historical detail. Eager to talk to her about it next month.
Lots of exciting discussions of one sort or another coming up in the next few weeks!
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I’m reading Homeseekers and enjoying it very much. I love the way it is described as having a “braided timeline “.
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Half way through Isabel Allende’s My Name is Emilia Del Valle. Next will be reading My Friends by Fredrik Backman. So it is a very good week!
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I just finished *The Busybody Book Club.” I enjoyed reading this book. It made me want to read some of Agatha Christie’s books. has anyone else read this book yet?
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Hi @Thelma_H - The discussion of The Busybody Book Club just opened today! Please feel free to chime in at The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson Discussion - BookBrowse Community Forum.
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A good week. I read Heartwood, Booked for Murder, and The Correspondent.
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I really want to read Dray’s book, too. Ancient Egypt fascinates me and it has been on my digital shelf just waiting for me. The first book I read by Dray was “Becoming Madam Secretary” and I loved it.
Revision:
And I just found out Lily of the Nile is available for free on Audible. Woohoo!
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I have had a lot of windshield time this week so have been primarily listening to one of three audiobooks - Madame Fourcade’s Secret War (Lynne Olson, non-fiction), The Love Haters (Katherine Center, rom-com), and Network Effect (Martha Wells, sci-fi).
Also, carrying around the 900+ page tome of “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda.” I picked up a few of his poems after reading Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits and now I’m hooked. (And poetry isn’t my thing.)
@Gabi_J I should have mentioned that! All three books in the series are available free to members.
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I recently read the entire book Audition by Katie Kitamura out loud (it’s a short book only 190+ pages) to my friend Donna who lives in Winnipeg. The book is about an aging actress in rehersal for a play about an older woman going through doubts about the character she plays, which may be the character that she is. The book is gorgeously written and takes many interesting turns that one doesn’t necessarily see coming, And when the book leaves Part I into Part II, I was glad to be reading out loud to my friend, otherwise I might have done a lot of head scratching instead of a little head scratching. As the book moves toward culmination, I had a real sense of where it was going, which I will not spoil for those of you interested in reading this book. Addressing issues regarding all that is said and not said in long marriages, what we think we know about our partner and what we’ve just assumed, and how to know the difference becomes the landscape on which all these issues are portrayed. The themes of the novel are definitely worth pondering.
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I am reading “Properties of Thirst” by Marianne Wiggins and it is intense. Next up is “No Right to an Honest Living” by Jacqueline Jones, last year’s Pulitzer winner in history.
Almost finished with Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez for a historical fiction book club at my local library. Will be starting Ghostwriter by Julie Clark next in preparation for the book discussion.
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin Just started it but so far it’s quite good.
I am reading The Overstory, which is fascinating. It reminds me of North Woods, which I also loved!
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I just finished Agony Hill, by Sarah Stewart Taylor and I really liked it. It’s the first book in a new series set in a small town in Vermont. That made it even more appealing to me, since I live in a small town in Vermont.
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Almost to the end of Ocean Vuong’s Emperor of Gladness - truly beautiful writing and close to the end of Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz. I am listening to Emperor and reading the hard copy of Marble Hall.
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I’m finishing up The Busybody Book Club for the Book Club Discussion.
Up next is a few ARC reads. 
I just finished The Crimson Knot by Nadija Mujagic and The Last Nanny by Rosemary Willhide.
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@Carla - Which ARCs? I’d love to know what’s on your radar.
The next ARCs are from indie authors…
Beyond Us by Shae Green
Mortal End by Maddie Rose Andry
Killer In Our Pocket by L Clara
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