Here’s a summary of last week’s reading adventures: Suicide,
Murder, Divorce. Way to ring in the holiday season! My book club read Veronika Decides to Die, and I wrote about why it was a good “discussion book.” I read
The Restless Sleep for Nonfiction November and found that I’m still restless for a satisfying nonfiction crime book.
And just yesterday I finished David Nicholls' Us, which was not exactly
the romantic comedy I thought it would be (but it was maybe something better).
A review on that is forthcoming.
So I knocked off two books from last week’s leaning stack of
books. This week is Thanksgiving, so I’m not sure how much reading I’ll get
done. But here’s my ambitious pile, with a few new additions:
You’ll notice that there’s a book whose spine is reversed.
That’s because I don’t want you to know that I’m reading it yet. It has to be a secret! My book club
has a book exchange every December, and I’m thinking that this will be the one
I’ll give (if it lives up to the great reviews). I’ve also put Hilary Mantel’s
An Experiment in Love in the stack, because I received it at the exchange two
years ago and still haven’t read it.
Here’s the synopsis from Powells:
It
was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery
dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escaping the
dreary English countryside for a London University hall of residence.
Interspersing accounts of her current position as a university student with
recollections of her childhood and an ever difficult relationship with her
longtime schoolmate Karina, Carmel reflects on a generation of girls desiring
the power of men, but fearful of abandoning what is expected and proper. When
these bright but confused young women land in late 1960s London, they are
confronted with a slew of new preoccupations--sex, politics, food, and
fertility--and a pointless grotesque tragedy of their own.
That’s it for now. Please let me know what you’re reading,
too. Hint: leave a comment!
(It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Book Journey)
8 comments:
Hmm, I've never heard of the Hilary Mantel book. I'll be interested to read what you think of it!
I'm very curious, too!
Us is still on my tbr pile, I'm curious about the Mantel title too. Her others aren't my taste but this one could be.
Have a great reading week,
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
Just about finished with Lila by Marilynne Robinson then I may return to a couple of Mary McCarthy books on Florence and Venice that I was reading while in Italy. I also purchased a couple of Orhan Pamuk books at a charity sale this weekend along with The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Of course, I also have a stack of magazines and Boris Vian's "Les Ecumes des Jours" which I am struggling to read in French. But then again, I struggle to read anything when it is in French. That's probably why I don't do it very much.
Yeah -- it seems different than Wolf Hall, etc. Though I suppose it's still "historical fiction."
How's Lila? You'll see that I still have that in my stack as well. I feel like I need to revisit the previous two before I read it.
You have some great titles and I hope to see you around my blog
Katelynn
www.literarychameleon.blogspot.com
Thank you! I will definitely check out your blog.
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