Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
I’m only at 12% (eBook loan); so far it’s been informative and interesting.
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Just finished The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister. I’m not sure how I would characterize this book. Isolated family in a crumbling manor built on a swamp in rural West Virginia with a mean, delusional patriarch who has convinced his children they have a compact that requires strange rituals to maintain a cranberry bog. Mixture of fantasy, family drama, a bit of occult tossed in for good measure. No fun in this dysfunction.
I finished The Paris Widow that was definitely a page turner with many twists. Then I started the new translation of The Trial by Franz Kafka. It’s a book a friend recommended as an important novel to read . It’s been on my maybe/someday list. Since it’s a short book I thought it be an easy read BUT I just finished the fourth chapter and I am totally confused!! However I am going to give it my best go!!!
I just finished The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason (loved the Piano Tuner and Northwood by same. It was a marvelous escape into the mind of a WWI medic in a field hospital) and started another audio of Naill Williams The History of Rain. It’s a bookish delight of a family history told by a bedridden young woman in Ireland. I just finished a great story by Lief Enger titled I Cheerfully Refuse. Post Apocalyptic charmer. LOVED it (library hardcover)
I love the reading ideas I get from this weekly question!
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I usually read 2-3 books at once.
Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
My aunt read it for her book club and I love murder mysteries.
Also A Morsel Of Murder by Cora Finch
This is the 2nd in the series, but not sure yet if I’ll continue.
Also a couple more that I’m either a beta or ARC reader for or both.
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I finished Rgere Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak. I just started The House in the Orchard by Elizabeth Brooks.
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- A witch’s guide to magical innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
- Borh of shadow - Nicole Conway
- Too old for this - Samantha Downing (OMG!!!)
Disposable by Sarah Jones and Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jasmyn Ward.
I just finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. She managed to make a story within a story within a story make sense. I couldn’t wait to see how it ended. I’ve also started Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers. She was a contemporary of Agatha Christie, who I do like. But Dorothy writes with a complexity and intelligence that makes Agatha’s books look like middle grade mysteries in comparison. I can understand why she isn’t more widely read, but she should be more widely read.
I just finished The Lies They Told by Elllen Marie Wiseman.
Heartbreaking story of an immigrant woman and her 2 yr old daughter who came to Virginia to take care of a distant relative’s children after his wife died.
Now onto The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen
I liked the Violin Conspiracy.
Continuing to read Las Madres: Latinas in the Heartland Who Led Their Families to Success by Dennis Raphael Garcia and continue love it.
Gave up on listening to A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel. It was too hard to keep track of the characters and places and understand the terms due to my very limited knowledge of the French language. Definitely will give the printed version a try. Instead am listening to the children’s book, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, and finding it to be winsome and enjoyable. British children’s classics are so special and have such a beauty to them. Maybe it’s that they allow kids to be kids?
Finally, reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer as a long read at a few pages per day.
Hey, @Shirley_Fentz, you may already know this, but we just started a discussion with Ellen Marie Wiseman. I hope you’ll stop by and ask her a question. Those who do will be entered into a drawing for a BookBrowse coffee mug.
I’ve wondered about Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams. Have always been intrigued by the cover.
Loved Sipsworth too!
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