July 2025 -- What are you reading?

[Anonymous]

What is everyone reading this month?
What is it about?
What do you think of it?

[Anonymous]

American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

[Anonymous]

^ Love it so far, very well written.

[Anonymous]

I’m about to finish The Indifferent Stars Above and Careless People…both compelling in different ways, and especially of interest to me since I moved to the Bay Area 8 years ago.

Up next: Wild Dark Shore and picking back up Nothing to See Here (paused in preference for Careless People).

[Anonymous]

^ Careless People is the Facebook tell-all, Indifferent Stars is about the Donner party

[Anonymous]

The housemaid by Freida McFadden. So far it's pretty good, the crazy wife is keeping me interested.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to read "Mary Jane" on vacation. I needed something light.

I loved "Careless People" -- listened on audio.

[Anonymous]

Just got The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li on my Kindle. Starting it tonight.

[Anonymous]

Remarkably Bright Creatures. Liking very much thus far . . .

[Anonymous]

Wrapping up:
Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read

Up next:
Among Friends by Hal Ebbet
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert

[Anonymous]

The new Wally Lamb book!

[Anonymous]

The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff and Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Both five ⭐️’s

[Anonymous]

Just started Murderland by Caroline Fraser. She wrote the amazing Prairie Fires biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. This one is about the strange prevalence of serial killers in the 60s-80s who were connected to Seattle/Tacoma (where she grew up) and the large number of smelters that were there at that time. Her theory is there’s a correlation and that the tightening environmental restrictions on things like smelters is partly why the number of serial killers drastically fell off after the 80s and is almost non existent now. It’s a pretty interesting idea.

[Anonymous]

For previous posters, don’t just rattle off the name of the book. Include what it’s about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new Wally Lamb book!

I've just got on the list for a library copy when it's available - LONG hold list! Is it good? I'm a former defender/prosecutor so I suspect I will really love it.

You might want to check out (if you haven't already) his collection of writings by women prisoner writing students he taught at York Correctional - Couldn't Keep it To Myself.