What are you reading this week? Please share! We’d love to know.
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Like @Carla_D, I’m reading Before Dorothy for the discussion next week. Then it’ll be on to Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid for review.
In audiobook format, I’m still working my way through Stephanie Dray’s Daughter of Cleopatra series. Next in the queue is Sam by Allegra Goodman.
BTW, I want to thank you guys here on the Community Forum for letting us know about what you’re reading. I’ve found at least two awesome books that I’ve absolutely loved because of recommendations here (Isola and Wild Dark Shore). BookBrowse does an excellent job of highlighting five-star reads, but it’s impossible to catch them all. These are two that would have been missed if it hadn’t been for y’all. 
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I am reading Atmosphere and The Maltese Falcon. Have never read Dashiell Hammett, and while he would not be considered politically correct now, I am enjoying the book because I am willing to acknowledge the differences in the world at the time when he was writing.
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I’m struggling through The Dream Hotel. Maybe someone can convince me to finish the book. **
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Violet is Blue ( Anne Shaw Heinrich)
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I just finished Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs. Great historical fiction and wonderful characters.
Quick view:
Be prepared to find the truth about these schools known as the Magdalene Laundries where they sent girls back in the 60s for many different reasons.
You will love the characters and the lifelong friendships they made, but your heart will break for them.
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I really liked Before Dorothy!!
All the inferences of the characters from The Wizard of Oz was fun.
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Reading “No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era” and hopefully starting “Babel” next week. I have put it off for too long. On a personal note, it is my 49th birthday on Sunday and I am taking the kids to the Smithsonian National Zoo. I look forward to reading at the Panda Overlook Cafe while the kids watch the Pandas.
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I loved both Wild Dark Shore and Isola!
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Reading twinsies, @Evonne_Benedict!
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Have you read The Correspondent by Virginia Evans yet? I think you’d love it!
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No! That does look good, though; I’ll have to put it on my list for the next Kindle double-points day.
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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahir
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I am currently reading the Paper Palace. Very disturbing book, about 195 pages into it and I really do not like any of the characters. I realize everyone is flawed, but this group has not presented me with even a hint of likability. Has anyone else found this a problem with a book.
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I just finished Trust Her by Flynn Berry. Not normally a thriller fan, but I’d read Northern Spy and assumed it would be just as good. It was excellent. Listening to the audio version with the proper accent heightens enjoyment, I think.
I’m also reading Where the Light Enters by Donati. I’m only halfway through the 600+ page novel, and I’m enjoying spending time with the characters and plot.
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an odyssey by daniel mendelsohn. a beautifully written story about a son and father. the son, a professor at bard college and his father who decides to sit in on his son’s class on “the odyssey”.
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I’m reading the Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie chang.
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hi just finished Where the Forest meets the Stars. Great title, but once i had determined the
trope, it was done for me i started skipping i could not engage in how the book unfolds. There was one mystery, will the dog or the man die? Sorry but I couldn’t keep in that book.
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Update: I skipped chapters and finished the book. Not my fav.
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I’m reading Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala about surviving the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka, when all her family dies.Its a brave story of survival through immense grief
Finished Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan( thank you Book Browse). This is a dystopian novel set in a flooding San Francisco. An artist with no immediate family becomes caretaker for a 130 year old neighbor. It’s about loss, the importance of memory , community, eco disaster .
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