I think I can safely say that the Frozen River is one of my all-time favorite books and like you, I too have plans to reread it. I read it two years ago and was surprised at the very long, current waitlist. It’s satisfying to see a particularly stellar novel continue to find its way into the lives of readers.I too recently finished Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry.
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I’m currently reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I’ve had this on my list for a long time.
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I finished “The Anthropocene Reviewed” yesterday and started “James” today.
“The Barn” by Wright Thompson - very disturbing story.
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Reading This is Happiness by Nial Williams.
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I am huge fan of Trust @Cheryl_Winter. My book club discussed it and I also did a deep dive with a couple of book buddies. Would love for you to share your thoughts.
I just listened to Aflame. It was interesting. I particularly enjoyed the author reading it.
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I’m going to read The Barn in Feb for Black History month. I’ve seen so many very positive responses to it.
I will respond when I finish it. I am enjoying it so far.
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@Sunny, another lighthearted book I enjoyed was Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders. He’s the author of the Thursday Murder Club series, which I also found amusing, but I thought We Solve Murders was better. It’s supposed to be the start of a new series and I’m looking forward to the next book.
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I am not familiar with Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series. Thanks for the suggestion, Kim!
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I loved that book ! I could not put it down.
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I just finished Shift which is the second book in the Silo series in audiobook format. It is a little confusing because the timeline keeps shifting but it explained how it all happened. I am enjoying the series on tv also. Am reading Everyone on this Train is a Suspect for our book club. Just started it so no opinion yet.
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I just finished Volume IV of The Cazalet Chronicles which I loved. I am now reading Anne Applebaum’s book, Autocracy, Inc. It is very interesting and well-written. So many of our assumptions after the Berlin Wall fell and the West opened trade with China in the 90s turned out to be wrong. It is a short book of less than 200 pages but Applebaum gives a really good overview of what is happening in the world today.
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I am reading The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis. I have read and enjoyed all her books. I enjoy stories that link the past and the present. I am finding more stories that I read are about women who were kept from achieving their goals by a male hierarchy that thought women did not have a place in science, the arts, and just about anywhere that wasn’t the kitchen or the bedroom. Such a waste of human potential!
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I read that book as well. I found it horrifying that she went through all of that with people she never met or who had never been to a public meeting who could use the internet and social media to further their own agenda and destroy someone’s life so easily and without consequences. So many lies, so much distortion!
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I read Claire Keegan’s Foster and Small Things Like these. Both are short and brilliantly written. She is an irish writer and I read them for book club .Everyone really enjoyed the books and they evoked terrific conversation
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@Doreen_Brennan-Moore I just started Shift in audiobook format as well. The narrator was really good in the first book, Wool, but I think if he’d used a different voice for each of the timelines in Shift the novel would have been easier to follow - something clearly within his wheelhouse. Are you going to get the third book (Dust)?
I am currently reading Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez which I would recommend! It is a debut novel, very well written, with an engaging plot, well developed characters. The story line provides an intriguing and emotional, multicultural perspective on racism, family relationships.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures is keeping it light for me during these stressful times. I expecially love seeing human life through Marcellus’, a giant Pacific octopus, eyes!
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