What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? Please share! We’d love to know.
I finished The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny this week. It’s a long book so give yourself time to read and reflect. My current read is The Last Twelve Miles by Erika Robuck. The setting is the prohibition era with two main female characters; one a Florida rumrunner and the other a cryptologist working for the government. They’re both well-developed characters. It’s early, but I do want both to succeed, yet one clearly is a criminal.
I am reading Gold Mountain by Betty G Yee for a bookclub. Also just received an Advance Reader’s Edition of Philippa Gregory’s Boleyn Traitor and looking forward to reading it soon!
I am reading “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City” and should be done by Sunday. Last week’s book, “The Demon of Unrest”, gave me a new insight into the Civil War and why it started.
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman, Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber and Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan. Very well written.
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Oh, @Gabi_J Lonesome Dove is one of those books that I wish I could read again for the first time. Enjoy!
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I’m almost finished with The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick for my book club meeting and am absolutely loving it. Last night, I recommended it to a 93 year old former multi-term state legislator and I’m almost sure, being a woman in government during the timeframe in the book, that she will identify with the characters and their stories. I completed The Last Cattle Drive by Robert Day yesterday and led a discussion of it last night at a nearby library. All attending (7 women and 2 men) had mixed feelings about the book. Living in Kansas, the setting of the book, and all of us having farm and ranch backgrounds, we appreciated the descriptions of the landscape and ranch life. I won’t go into the rest of the discussion to avoid spoiling it for another reader. I just started Queen of Mayhem: The Blood Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West by David Huckelbridge. So happy to be digging into nonfiction of the Old West, my favorite topic!
Lonesome Dove is my absolute favorite fiction ever. I hope you enjoy it.
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Finishing up Daughters of Shandong in prep for Eve Chung’s visit with us in a few weeks. I generally don’t re-read books, but I’m enjoying this one even more the second time around. Of course, as I get older, I find I don’t remember the books I’ve read as well, so that probably helps. Then it’s on to This Here is Love, again in prep for the author’s visit here, and A Guardian and a Thief for review.
In audiobook, I’m still listening to The Cider House Rules. I’ve got about six hours left, so it’ll be another week at least.
I’m reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. I think I’ll need a palate-cleanser after this one, something uplifting or inspiring, that reminds me that people aren’t awful.
(I know we are in good company here at BookBrowse 
, but you know what I mean.)
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Lana, do you have a bibliography about the Old West? If so, would you share? Your last title is about a woman. In general, women were often overlooked in my history classes. Annie Oakley was always mentioned, but I suspect the life of Belle Starr would be intriguing. I think more women than we know fled whatever lives held them in chains and headed west.
Are you speaking to just nonfiction? Or fiction, also? I don’t have a bibliography per se, but have read quite a few nonfiction books about notable women of the Old West as well as fiction that includes strong women. I’ve found that the bookstores and gift shops of National Park Service sites, state historic sites, and local historic attractions often have outstanding offerings. It will take me a little while, but I would be glad to generate a list of books on the Old West, especially including women, that I liked or would like to read.
I read Invisible Child a few years ago and (unlike most books I read) it has stayed with me. I still think about that family and the young woman. I wonder what has become of all of them.
I knew so little about Taiwan before I really started reading hardcore but so many great books about China and Taiwan exist and Daughters of Shandong may be the best that I have read.
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Thank you! Both fiction and non-fiction would be appreciated.
Another treasure found at woman’s club fund raising booksale. As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulf Katouh is a debut novel (2022) written about the trauma of living in Syria during the civil war and the hard decision of staying in the war-torn country that has caused so much personal loss or leave for survival, abandoning the place which has made its inhabitants who they are.
I finished Silver Nitrate—not for me. I did appreciate the comments of my fellow book clubbers yesterday. I was glad I had read and could participate in the conversation.
Yesterday I started Hazel Says No.
I’m reading “The Measure”, “All the Broken Places”, “Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books”, “My Death” by Lisa Tuttle, and “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek”, all for book groups. I’m enjoying each book for different reasons; of all 5, “All the Broken Places is my favorite. It delves more deeply into the characters’ lives, and is very well written.
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Marie, I’m curious how you read five books at one time. I can manage two together as long as the stories are quite different. Truly interested in your method!