What are you reading for September?

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Anonymous wrote:I finished listening to "The Floating Feldmans" yesterday. It is about 3 generations of a squabbling family who all go on a cruise together.
I liked it.

Ooh I love the premise and the title. Was it a fast read?

Just listened to it hard on the recommendation here. Liked it a lot!

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5 Decembers.

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Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam
by Yasmine Mohammed

The author was on bill Maher a year ago and I finally got around to reading the book. The book seems mistitled though as it really is a memoir and not inflammatory. The gist of the title is that author confided in a teacher at her public Canadian school about horrific abuse at home. CPS investigated and issue went to court and the declined to remove her from home because corporal punishment is part of her “Islamic culture.” Otherwise it’s an incredible story about her childhood, forced marriage to a terrorist, leaving Islam and becoming and activist for women.

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A Quiet Life and The Guncle. For nonfiction I’m currently reading The Life Council.

I also just reread The Great Gatsby for the first time since high school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I finished listening to "The Floating Feldmans" yesterday. It is about 3 generations of a squabbling family who all go on a cruise together.
I liked it.

Ooh I love the premise and the title. Was it a fast read?

Just listened to it hard on the recommendation here. Liked it a lot!

Oh how delightful! I am the person who read The Floating Feldmans earlier this month and posted about it. I am glad you enjoyed it.
My favorite character in the book was the teenage boy. It seemed to me that he thought he was clueless abut life, but he was the only one in his family of four who had a clue.

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Anonymous wrote:Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam
by Yasmine Mohammed

The author was on bill Maher a year ago and I finally got around to reading the book. The book seems mistitled though as it really is a memoir and not inflammatory. The gist of the title is that author confided in a teacher at her public Canadian school about horrific abuse at home. CPS investigated and issue went to court and the declined to remove her from home because corporal punishment is part of her “Islamic culture.” Otherwise it’s an incredible story about her childhood, forced marriage to a terrorist, leaving Islam and becoming and activist for women.

Oh, now, your summation of what the book is about makes it seem so much more interesting than what the title implies.
Thanks for your post. The book seems intriguing to me, from your description.

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I just finished reading "Orphan trains: Riding the Rails to a New Life". It was a children's book but I still found it very good.
What an interesting chapter in America's history. The orphan trains took children from New York City to farm towns out west from the 1850's to the 1920's. The book said that now, one out of four people in Iowa are descended from an orphan train rider.

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I just reread Age of Innocence for the first time in 20 years or more. I love that book.

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Anonymous wrote:I just reread Age of Innocence for the first time in 20 years or more. I love that book.

THat's a great reread - one of my favorites. Have you read her House of Mirth and Custom of the Country? Those are other Wharton favorites for me.

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Anonymous wrote:I just reread Age of Innocence for the first time in 20 years or more. I love that book.

THat's a great reread - one of my favorites. Have you read her House of Mirth and Custom of the Country? Those are other Wharton favorites for me.

Yes—also love House of Mirth. Enjoyed Custom of the Country, but not as top tier for me. Next I am going to try The Reef, which is a Wharton I haven’t read.

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Just finished MY Murder—really enjoyed it and realized I liked the writers earlier book (Tell the machine goodnight). The ending is a little neat (for such a complex story). But still compelling.

Started Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and absolutely loving it. It reminds me of Laurie Colwin (who I also adore).

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I am reading Atomic Habits and liking it. I am halfway, if not 2/3 of the way through. I expect to give it 4 stars on Goodreads.

I got a little more into self improvement books this year and I'm happy with this change so far. I might try to read more of them. I typically read a lot of fiction.

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished MY Murder—really enjoyed it and realized I liked the writers earlier book (Tell the machine goodnight). The ending is a little neat (for such a complex story). But still compelling.

I coincidentally read this yesterday too. So strange yet as you said, compelling. I liked how it's set in this futuristic world but nothing is over-explained, the reader just understands things through context. I felt weirdly respected as a reader, like I wasn't being babied.

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished MY Murder—really enjoyed it and realized I liked the writers earlier book (Tell the machine goodnight). The ending is a little neat (for such a complex story). But still compelling.

Started Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and absolutely loving it. It reminds me of Laurie Colwin (who I also adore).

Thank you for the reminder about Kitchen - I think I will read that next!

Just started Yellowface and I am LOVING it so far.

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The Covenant of Water is the Audible Deal of the Day today. $5.99.

There’s a long wait for it at DC (not Arlington).