What are you reading this week? Please share! We’d love to know.
I’m reading The Alienist by Caleb Carr, enjoying it much more than I expected! I recently finished I Who Have Never Known Men…such a disturbing story, but well written. Also working my way slowly through Middlemarch by George Eliot. It’s great to hear what everyone else is reading!
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I just finished “Before Dorothy” so I’m ready for the discussion. I’m more than halfway through “Sunflower House” by Adriana Allegri about the Nazi Lebensborn program and have Fredrik Backman’s “My Friends” waiting in the wings.
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One of my favorites. Watching the Hulu series now!
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Reading “The God of the Woods” and hopefully “Babel” soon.
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Finishing Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid for review, then I’m not sure. I’ve got a few days before I need to start the next discussion book - Broken Country - so I may try to squeeze in something else before I start that. Jury’s out!
In audiobook format, I’m listening to Kelly Mustian’s The Girls in the Stilt House. I picked it up to prep for a Q&A with her - she’ll be here in a few weeks - and I’m super glad I did. I liked the novel we read as a group - The River Knows Your Name - but I think this one is stronger and I’m enjoying it more. After that, maybe Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield (another upcoming author).
Speaking of books I picked up for Q&A prep, last week I also listened to Sam by Allegra Goodman. So different from Isola! It’s just the story of one girl’s life, from age 6 to maybe 20 or 21. Nothing really exciting happens, it’s just a life. But it was so well done! I loved the characters so much! I can’t believe how completely absorbed I got in the story.
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@kim.kovacs Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden was announced today as the winner of the Women’s Prize. If you have not read it I can highly recommend it.
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I’m reading The Eagle Tree…for a local book club discussion. With a great-grandson somewhere on the autism spectrum I’m finding much with which to identify.
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Thanks, Anne, I haven’t read it but I will!
Reading Murder in My Backyard/ Ann Cleeves and Bleak House/ Charles Dickens
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I loved My Friends! I do like all of his books!
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@Paula_Walters Bleak House is one of my all-time favorite novels. Have you read it before?
I have not read it before. It has been on my book shelf forever. When I retired in 2015 I told myself I needed to read a lot of classics. A lot has not happened!! So I have decided I need to work on it!
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Happy Land based on African kingdom community founded by former slaves who became landowners in North and South Carolina and the generational loss of that land. Whale Fall by O’Connell about life in remote islands off British Isles and effect of climate change. If you accidently read Whale Fall by Krauss you will still get an interesting read about a modern day Jonah. Christopher Moore is always a joy to read. Anima Rising is his newest and combines historical persons in a unique plot line.
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Reading Playground by Richard Powers. My word! That author can write. I loved Echo Maker from the beginning when his descriptions of the migration floored me. Playground drew me in immediately with a creation story from the people of Makatea.
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Bleak House is high on my list of Dickens favorites. I also enjoyed Fagin the Thief which is based in the character from Oliver Twist.
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The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. So far it is amazing! It is hard to put it down, and when I finally do, I go to bed thinking about it. I am also listening to The Count of Monte Cristo on audiobook, one of the classics that I never got around to. Forty-seven hours on audio though!
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The Count of Monte Cristo is another favorite of mine, even though it’s long. I’ve listened to it on audiobook several times.
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The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. I am enjoying it very much. I recommend it