What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? Please share! We’d love to know.
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Finally getting around to “A Covenant of Water.” Finished “Native Nations” earlier this week and enjoyed it but it was long!
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I just finished POINSETTIA GIRL by Jennifer Wizbowski. It was very good.
It is about the life of Agata de la Pieta who became a musical phenomena at an orphanage in Venice in 1710 called Ospedale de la Pieta.
It is published.
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I read that a few years ago. It is longer than my usual reads but it is worth the length. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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I am reading The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. It is excellent.
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride has long been on my TBR. I’m glad you’re enjoying it. Maybe that’ll be one of my December reads… 
Cursed Daughter-ARC.
I can’t say which books I’ve been reading because I don’t want to spoil the surprise for the upcoming Best Of issue, set to hit your inboxes on December 10.
Coming up this week are two of our book club selections: The Forgotten Book Club by Kate Storey, and Beast of the North Woods by Annelise Ryan.
Still listening to King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby. Hoping to have more free time to enjoy it this week.
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I read “Bone Thief” by Vanessa Lillie, re-read Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like These” for my book group, & just started the fifth Thursday Murder Club title, “Impossible Fortune” by Richard Osman. I’ve had it on hold at the library for what seems like forever–it’s going to go fast!
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I have been listening to Everything Is Tuberculosis and it is excellent, but I’m finding I would rather read it in print because I think I’ll retain the details better. Before I pick up the print Everything… I have to finish The Last Letter for my book club meeting in four days (400 pages to go!) and I’m having a super hard time getting into it. I wasn’t able to attend the book discussion of Letters of a Woman Homesteader due to other obligations, but plan to come back to it. Looks like my reading has been very scattered lately.
Still far to go in East of Eden - Steinbeck. Such a rich, vivid writer.
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Just finished People Like Us by Jason Mott. Some of it felt like a replay of Hell of a Book (a book I really loved), but the ending chapters pulled it out of the doldrums for me. On audio, I’m about 2/3’s of the way through The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth by Jermaine Fowler. I needed to put it aside for a few days in part because it’s full of layers and layers of facts, and because I just started a section which he billed as taking a deeper look at violence.
I finished The Fifth to Die and immediately started book 3 of this trilogy, The Sixth Wicked Child. This Fourth Monkey series has kept me turning pages as fast as I can.
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I haven’t heard about these but will search Libby. Is the first book The Fourth Monkey?
I’m looking forward to starting Lily King’s Heart the Lover. It’s gotten a lot of buzz and I liked Writers and Lovers very much so I hope my expectations aren’t too high.
I just finished The Irish Goodbye for Book Browser First Impressions. I’ll be writing a review so for now will just say that I loved it (and I’m usually not a memoir reader!).
Have been catching up on some of my “fun” series reads. Just finished Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree and started The Lady on Esplanade Street by Karen White.
They don’t write like Steinbeck anymore. East of Eden is one of my favorite books.
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I hadn’t read a summary before starting the book so was clueless about the storyline. Sometimes it’s good to begin a novel without knowing where the path winds. The main characters are fully developed and recognizable.
I am reading *The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell.
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This week I finished Pick a Color and A Guardian and A Thief. I enjoyed both; Pick A Color was my favorite though. The character is richly written; I could feel her tension and need from the page. I listened to an interview with the author and she described herself as an author of absence. I find that I enjoy books that don’t tell me everything about a character as well as not tying things up in a bow. This delivers.
I’m currently reading Some Bright Nowhere; interesting premise.
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