March 2026 - What are you reading?

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So far this month-

The Quiet Librarian - Allen Eskens. About a woman who survived the war in Serbia, moves to the US for a quiet life, who is being targeted by someone from her past. I enjoyed learning more about the conflict in that region a it was an engaging book.

College Girl Missing- audio book about missing Indiana U student Lauren Spierer. The case interests me but this book was pretty meh. Not much new and I didn’t like the narration.

Life, and Death and Giants- Ron Rindo. About a boy born in a small town in Wisconsin. The boy, Gabriel, is a giant from birth and his mother dies during childbirth. She was formally Amish, though shunned as a result do her pregnancy. Gabriel is cared for by many community members and the books is a great testament to the power of community. Has a bit of a a Forrest Gump vibe. A bit boring in The middle, but overall enjoyable and the ending is an emotional zinger.

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Anonymous wrote:So far this month-

The Quiet Librarian - Allen Eskens. About a woman who survived the war in Serbia, moves to the US for a quiet life, who is being targeted by someone from her past. I enjoyed learning more about the conflict in that region a it was an engaging book.

College Girl Missing- audio book about missing Indiana U student Lauren Spierer. The case interests me but this book was pretty meh. Not much new and I didn’t like the narration.

Life, and Death and Giants- Ron Rindo. About a boy born in a small town in Wisconsin. The boy, Gabriel, is a giant from birth and his mother dies during childbirth. She was formally Amish, though shunned as a result do her pregnancy. Gabriel is cared for by many community members and the books is a great testament to the power of community. Has a bit of a a Forrest Gump vibe. A bit boring in The middle, but overall enjoyable and the ending is an emotional zinger.

Forgot to add that I’m now reading Good People by Patmeen Sabin about an immigrant family from Afghanistan. So far enjoying!

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I finished The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff. I typically don't enjoy a coming-of-age but LOVED this one, it was really well written. So many good lines.

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I just finished What We Can Know by Ian McEwan, about an academic 100 years in a post climate catastrophe, post nuclear war world, trying to reconstruct a famous lost poem from 2019 or so. Like Possession as a futuristic dystopia. I really enjoyed it.

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Just started Sandra Brown's new release

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Anonymous wrote:Just read Heart the Lover. Starting Kin.

LOVED this book. I ripped through it.

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Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple, a book about 5 partitions and how they shaped Asia today.

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Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy reading thrillers then I have an excellent recommendation for you.

I just completed reading “She Didn’t See It Coming” by Shari Lapena.

I have read a few of her previous novels but this one is by far her best work.

The story gripped me and I could barely put this book down…..
Showering, eating, working, sleeping……be damned!
Lol!

This story was captivating, compelling + very very unpredictable.
And if you love a good ending this book does not disappoint!

No spoilers ~ A perfect family lives in a condo unit, two attractive & successful parents have a wonderful, beautiful 3YO little girl and are trying for another baby.
They have a great marriage, friends as well as close family.
Then one day out of the clear blue - the Mother simply vanishes.
She does not show up to pick up her little girl from her daycare and there is no sign of her.
She loved her child and husband very much and would NEVER leave them.

This story is packed with intense suspense and so many surprises that I felt like I was on a rollercoaster 🎢 just by reading it.

Definitely five stars 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟

I have read about 5 of her books, she is a great writer and her novels are very easy to read too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you enjoy reading thrillers then I have an excellent recommendation for you.

I just completed reading “She Didn’t See It Coming” by Shari Lapena.

I have read a few of her previous novels but this one is by far her best work.

The story gripped me and I could barely put this book down…..
Showering, eating, working, sleeping……be damned!
Lol!

This story was captivating, compelling + very very unpredictable.
And if you love a good ending this book does not disappoint!

No spoilers ~ A perfect family lives in a condo unit, two attractive & successful parents have a wonderful, beautiful 3YO little girl and are trying for another baby.
They have a great marriage, friends as well as close family.
Then one day out of the clear blue - the Mother simply vanishes.
She does not show up to pick up her little girl from her daycare and there is no sign of her.
She loved her child and husband very much and would NEVER leave them.

This story is packed with intense suspense and so many surprises that I felt like I was on a rollercoaster 🎢 just by reading it.

Definitely five stars 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟

I have read about 5 of her books, she is a great writer and her novels are very easy to read too.

A bit elementary but I enjoyed it too.

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I just started The North Woods. It's not what I expected or what I would usually be into but I like it so far.

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Just started Lady Tremaine. It’s really appealing so far.

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Anonymous wrote:I just started The North Woods. It's not what I expected or what I would usually be into but I like it so far.

It picks up. Keep with it.

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Finished the last book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet last night. Fascinating work. It’s powerful literature with huge themes mascarading as “women’s fiction.” I never would have read it if My Brilliant Friend hadn’t landed as #1 on the NYT best 100 books of the 21st century so far. Read all of them on kindle, which was good because if I’d had the physical books I would have realized all 4 together are about 2k pages and I would have been intimidated by that. Soooo worth it, it turned out.

10/10

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It's very, very good. A spy novel, but also an account of the end and aftermath of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective.

I really enjoyed that book, too.

My husband just finished The Sympathizer. He's a fan of spy novels and history, both non-fiction and fiction, so I wasn't surprised that he just tore through it. What I hadn't expected, though, was that he said it was really funny, despite being, basically, a tragic and pretty grisly story of war.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It's very, very good. A spy novel, but also an account of the end and aftermath of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective.

I really enjoyed that book, too.

My husband just finished The Sympathizer. He's a fan of spy novels and history, both non-fiction and fiction, so I wasn't surprised that he just tore through it. What I hadn't expected, though, was that he said it was really funny, despite being, basically, a tragic and pretty grisly story of war.

Sounds like my DH would like it. I'll get it for him.