I’d also recommend the Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes. The books are about similar characters (Appalachian “book woman”) and came out around the same time, so there was some controversy about who came up with the idea first. I really enjoyed both books! |
DP. Started listening to the audiobook based on OP's rec and enjoying it so far! |
Just finished The Women and I thought it was okay. Agree with others that it wasn’t Hannah’s best book. I weirdly think I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the second half.
I’m currently reading The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo. It’s an interesting read, set in Inquisition-era Spain, but its slower than I expected. |
I have read 2 fantastic thrillers this month: What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan and Safe and Sound by Laura McHugh. The second one publishes a little later this month. |
Just devoured Death in the Spires by KJ Charles. Wonderful murder mystery! I bought it in ebook because my library doesn’t religiously buy her books and I wanted to read it immediately. So good! |
Have you gotten to the romance part in The Familiar? That’s where it really kicked in and became a 5 star read for me—very sexy and satisfying slow burn. |
I started listening to “Ghachar Ghochar” by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
Got it from Libby. It is short, about 120 pages. It is about a lower middle class Indian family that is scraping by becoming wealthy and how that changes the family dynamics and relationships. Interesting read so far. |
Love both Sophie Kinsella and Cousens! |
Recently finished Lady Tan's Circle of Women. Just started Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives it Changed. I only heard about it because my 9th grader is reading it in English. |
The Covenant of Water
Also going through the Inspector Maigret series by Georges Simenon thanks to someone's rec on this forum - thank you very much for that. |
Just finished the Sicilian Inheritance which I really enjoyed after a couple of meh thrillers (The Heiress and First Lie Wins) |
Starting “Grendel” by John Gardner.
Brilliant but so weird! |
I just finished "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand.
It is a nonfiction book about WWII, published in 2010. Specifically, it is about a guy who took part in the 1936 Olympics as a runner, then WW II came along and he joined the Army Air Corps. His plane crashed into the Pacific ocean and he and 2 other crash survivors floated for 46 days in a raft. One guy died in the raft. Then they were taken as POW's in Japan for the next two years. I thought it was really good. It was almost 500 pages and full of statistics, but the author did a really good job of keeping it all interesting. I downloaded it from my library website. |
Just finished Here After by Amy Lin and thought it was amazing. It’s about a woman whose husband died suddenly. Her writing was beautiful. Not an easy read but short. |
"Step Ball Change" by Jeanne Ray, who is Ann Padgett's mom.
The protagonist in the book runs a dance studio, and the book title refers to a tap dance move. The book was about a couple in their early 60's who daydream about retiring and traveling, but life keeps interfering. They both work, they have 4 kids and their nest is not quite empty. They hired a contractor to do a remodeling project only to learn that their foundation has been crumbling for years so now the contractor practically lives at their house. Their daughter gets engaged to a guy from a super wealthy family. The mother of the groom has a list of 900 people to invite to the wedding. And the wife's sister has come to stay with them while she nurses her wounds because her husband ran off with a younger woman. I thought the book was a lot of fun. I had read one other book by Jeanne Ray several years ago, which was called "Calling Invisible Women". I had wanted to read more by her for a long time but my library overdrive / libby website didn't have any of her other books. I happened to see this book at the thrift shop a few months ago and bought it. |