What book or books are you reading this week? We’d love to know!
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I just started Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina. The author was a Ukrainian who met some remarkable women who are/were active during the conflict, and the book talks about their efforts to both fight and document war crimes. Sadly, the author was killed by a Russian bomb before she could complete the book, but others pieced the work together. I’m only a few pages in but I suspect I’ll have a high opinion of it when I’m done.
And in audiobook, I just started Book 3 (Dust) of the Silo trilogy (the books on which the TV show is based).
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Looking at Women Look at War sounds really interesting @kim.kovacs I hope you will have a chance to come back and post some thoughts about it. Since the Ukraine conflict started I have read books by a few Ukrainian authors and have found them very interesting and beautifully written and/or translated.
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Thanks, @Anne_Glasgow! I’m scheduled to review it for our 2/26 eZine, so I’ll be able to provide detailed feedback soon.
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Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin
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Finishing up The Coin by Yasmin Zaher and starting an arc for I Leave it Up to You by Jinwoo Chong.
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I am reading “Small Rain” by Garth Greenwell. It is a tough read for multiple reasons. First, it captures the claustrophobia of an emergency room almost too well and the uncertainty of a hospital stay rings true as well. Also (this is a personal picky thing) paragraphs are a page or two long normally and that makes it harder to take a break and read in shifts.
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I’m currently reading The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks and in decision mode about a couple of NF: The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman and Throne of Grace by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
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I’m reading Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange for the book club. Pretty interesting book and it’s interesting that he ties into the characters of his first book, There, There. It’s pretty heavy and I’m not expecting much of a resolution but I highly appreciate books that show a different perspective of history, particularly US history.
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I thought The Real Lolita was well done. It is of course a hard story.
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Carys Davis’ Clear, Karen Russell’s Antidote, listening to Louise Penny’s The Madness of Crowds Love them all!
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A website spoiled the end of Clear to me and I still loved it!
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This joins Lincoln in the Bardo, Demon Copperhead, and others that I started with audio or ebook, but had to own a physical copy❤️ The writing is exquisite
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I’ve been hearing some good buzz for Antidote, glad you’re loving it!
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- Blob - Maggie Su
- Eddie Winston is looking for love - Marianne Cronin
- The wager - David Grann
- The lotus shoes - Jane Yang
- Bulfinch’s mythology - Thomas Bulfinch
- The divine comedy - Dante Alighieri
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Loved The Wager! I want to read all of Grann’s work!
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Just finished Beautiful Ugly. Wanting to see if others felt as I did.
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Wow, @Marijana_Bankovic, that’s quite the list! Very impressive! How do you keep the books straight, and how do you decide which one to read when?