What are you reading this week? Please share! We’d love to know.
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I’m about to finish Hotshot by River Selby about being a woman on the wildfire brigades.
Then I’m going to start either Endling by Maria Reva or One Boat by Jonathan Buckley as I explore the Booker Prize longlist.
Playground by Richard Powers!! Amazing! Can’t stop thinking about it!
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I just started *The Hunter’s Daughter this morning. I’m already intrigued. The author “whispers” a lot of possibilities.
I just finished MY Friends and You are here. Both really good. I’m now reading Cat People for a lighter read.
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I’m finishing my re-read of James. Really glad I’m having the chance to enjoy it in print, as I feel like I missed a lot of nuance just listening to it. Then it’ll be Mercy for one of the upcoming book discussions.
In audiobook format, I’m finishing The Lies They Told. It’s a very well-written book, but also very stressful. The author, Ellen Marie Wiseman, will be here in a few weeks & I’m looking forward to speaking with her about it. After that, I’m not sure. TBD! A new episode of my space opera is out (Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson) so that might be in my future, but it’s something like 20 hours long & I’m not sure I want to make that kind of investment right now.
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My Friends was great. Read “The Return”, Matar’s nonfiction piece about his father. It works well as a companion piece.
Buckle up for an amazing ending!
I am reading “Heart Lamp” by Banu Mushtag. It is a collection of short stories. Absolutely nothing happens in the first two stories but the third picks up a bit.
I loved My Friends. I couldn’t put it down. I have a suggestion since you clearly like emotional stories. Read Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese. You’ll never look at homeless people the same way after you read it. And it’s a novel based on his life.
After waiting for months for a copy of The Safekeep, I thought I’d be the target audience for this book…too much heavy breathing and bodice ripping. I am going to return it early.
I am pleased to have Sea Wife as a fall back ebook. Once I figured out the voices, I am hooked. I do think I will listen to the audiobook, which is often the case when I am challenged by a writing style.
Just finished listening to Candide by Voltaire. Even though it was on James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read Before You Die, it was just “Meh” for me. Going to listen to a middle school book on the list next, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. Currently reading All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. His writing and theme thus far seems to be very similar to William Kent Krueger’s.
I just finished Culpable by Bruce Holsinger – a cautionary tale about the role of AI and autonomy in our society. Now I picked up Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh.
I’m reading The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan this week and loved it from first chapter. Also reading One Good Thing by Georgia Hunter, but keep falling asleep. Just can read ebooks easier than an actual book!
I’m reading The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and Who Is Government by Michael Lewis. Don’t let the title of Lewis’s book fool you- it is far from dry and a must read after all the reports about laying off thousands of “lazy” federal government employees. These stories highlight people who went above and beyond, not because they expected fame and glory, because it was the right thing to do.
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I just finished The Lies They Told and yes it is extremely stressful and horrifying that this occurred in the 20th century.
In the past I have enjoyed many beautiful fall drives on the Sky Line Drive in the Shenandoah National Park, Unfortunately it didn’t occur to me that families were evicted from their homes.
It will interesting to listen to Ellen Marie Wiseman on September 8.
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@Lynne_G I finished The Lies They Told just yesterday. Man, that was an intense novel!
For you audiophiles out there, the version with Elizabeth Rodgers narrating is superb.
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I’m finishing up This Here Is Love and will submit my review shortly. What an incredible book!
Then I will start reading One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon. I’m a little nervous since I don’t typically read scary novels, but it may just scare the sadness from reading This Here Is Love out of me!
I have finished two books that I highly recommend. One is The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold about a dystopian time where a young girl is holed-up in an abandoned bookshop trading books for supplies with the few remaining survivors. The second book is Unrest byGwen Tuinman about a brave woman surviving in Bytown 1836 (Ottawa) and what she has to go through to survive.
Paris Widow and still reading War and Peace.