What We’re Reading – Books
Recent Reads
You’ll quickly learn that my inability to focus on one thing at a time seeps over into my reading habits. I’m never into only one book. I usually have 2-3 going at the same time. (I’m inserting links to Amazon here because that’s where I buy all my books).
My book club just finished Anne Patchett’s The Dutch House. I read it a while ago and I do recommend it. It’s a generational tale that centers on the lives of two very different complex siblings, their thorny childhoods and their inability to leave their past behind.
On audio, I just finished American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins about the immigration journey of a Mexican mom and her son fleeing to the border. The novel has met with lots of criticism as readers find flaws in the depiction of the main character. NPR interviewed Cummins about the novel and its impact. You can listen to that interesting conversation here.
Loved reading City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende and What She Knew by Gilly MacMillian.
Now reading The Book of Longings […]