What are you reading this week? Please share! We’d love to know.
The Correspondent… I can’t read it fast enough. Also The Searcher by Tana French and Remember by Lisa Genova.
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Ruth by Kate Riley about a young girl growing up in a Hutterite community.
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I’m reading Dickens’ Great Expectations and loving it. Also listening to About Grace by Anthony Doerr, which is fantastic too.
An older one by Margaret Atwood, “Alias Grace.” I’m in awe of her skill and her imagination.
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I am reading Buckeye by Patrick Ryan. I am enjoying it so far.
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@Brenda_D_Andre I literally just finished Alias Grace half an hour ago. I so love Margaret Atwood’s books. My favorite was the Oryx & Crake series.
@Maureen_Connolly that was a recent review book for me. I’m curious to know what you think of it. I thought it was wonderful, although I may have been influenced by my Ohio roots.
I’m reading The Hunter’s Daughter and I’m totally wrapped up in it. I had a hard time putting it down last night & I’m eager to get back to it today. I had no clue what it was about when I signed up for it and was pleasantly surprised. After that, I’m going to start one of the Booker nominated novels: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai. I hope it goes well because it’s l-o-o-o-ng.
I just started Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower this morning in audiobook format.
I’m about half-way through Mr. Texas, by Lawrence Wright. It was a Gulf Coast Reads finalist. And I’m listening to A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni.
I will let you know when I have finished the book.
I Was Anastasia just started so no opinion yet! Reading for one of my bookclubs.
The Woman in Cabin 10 so I can watch the movie on Netflix in October
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First of all I have to say that it can’t possibly be the end of August already! 
Ok, now that that is out of my system. . . I just finished reading A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham and The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes. I am re-reading Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen.
Right?!?!? Where did the summer go!?!
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This question always prompts a moment of angst and a moment of jubilation. Angst, because there will be at least another half dozen books that I’ll add to my TBR list. Jubilation because I’ll find at least a half dozen books that I can’t wait to read (if only there were enough time!) 
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I’m 1/3 of the way through Parable of the Sower for a book group and then just getting into Death at the Sign of the Rook which I am really enjoying.
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Yeah, I know what you mean, @Jill_Mercier! I bought three yesterday because of the folks here. 
Just started a 2025 Kansas Notable Book that was recommended to me by a dear friend who is the author’s first cousin. It is Las Madres: Latinas in the Heartland Who Led Their Families to Success by Dennis Raphael Garcia. It is a recounting of lives, struggles, and triumphs of the author’s mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother in the Mexican Village of Dodge City, KS in the early twentieth century and follows their lives to the beginning of the twenty-first century. I am loving it and am looking forward to the author presenting at the Dodge City community college in September. I think it would appeal to anyone interested in learning of the experience of the early Mexican immigrants who came to the USA primarily to make a better life for themselves and their families.
I also just started the audiobook of A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel. It’s 33+ hours so I hope I can stick to it.
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Out of Africa was the first book I selected when we started our book club 8 years ago. I liked it, but ALL of the other members wanted to tar and feather me and ride me out of town on a rail. I learned very quickly that they most definitely didn’t want to read the classics. 
Ohhh, that’s truly a shame that the other book club members were not in favor of reading Out of Africa. But I have to admit I did love your anecdotal description of their reaction. 