What are you reading right now?

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Anonymous wrote:Firekeeper's Daughter. It's heavy, but deserves all the accolades it got.

I liked that book!

I'm reading Lessons in Chemistry ... very good so far!

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Anonymous wrote:"Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles.

The Lincoln Highway is also excellent.

PP here, I read that one already as well as A Gentleman in Moscow. We'll see how they all stack up after I'm finished with this one!!

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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames

"A sweeping family saga that follows one hundred years of family secrets from Italy to America

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments when ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted.

In her rugged Italian village, Stella is considered an oddity—beautiful and smart, insolent and cold. Stella uses her peculiar toughness to protect her slower, plainer baby sister Tina from life’s harshest realities. But she also provokes the ire of her father, Antonio, a man who demands subservience from women and whose greatest gift to his family is his absence.

When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and Tina must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them. Soon Stella learns that her survival is worthless without the one thing her family will deny her at any cost: her independence.

In present-day Connecticut, one family member tells this heartrending story, determined to understand the persisting rift between the now elderly Stella and Tina. A richly told debut, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna is a tale of family transgressions as ancient and twisted as the olive branch that could heal them."

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Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

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Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
&
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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I realize I'm late to the game, but I just started The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

I just finished Before the Fall by Noah Hawley.

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Burr by Gore Vidal.

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Re-reading The Passage by Justin Cronin. I love a good, sweeping dystopia!

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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson. Preparing for a trip to Egypt in the spring!

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I'm currently re-reading Reverse of the Medal, by Patrick O'Brian, as part of the Aubrey/Maturing series. Love this series and it's my 3rd time going through it.

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The Big Sea

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Firekeeper's Daughter. It's heavy, but deserves all the accolades it got.

I liked that book!

I'm reading Lessons in Chemistry ... very good so far!

I'm the one reading Firekeeper's Daughter. I LOVED Lessons in Chemistry! Now that you mention it, I think I need to own it. I had checked it out of the library, but I think I want my own copy.

That's a sign of a great book, IMO.

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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Anonymous wrote:Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

How is it? I have it on hold right now.

[Anonymous]

Last Girl Ghosted, Lisa Unger.
The first half was promising but now I hate it passionately and just want to know how the ridiculous plot is wrapped up.