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Oh happy day! Finally, 2020 does something right. I am so thrilled to see Joe Biden and Kamala Harris heading to the White House. I know half the country doesn’t feel this way, and I feel for them, but perhaps with a little more calm in out government both sides can once again learn to work together. I keep reassuring my adult children that compromise used to work in our country. We can only hope. Additionally, I’m thrilled that my young granddaughters will grow up seeing the first of many women leading at the top levels of our country. Go, Kamala!
Now, onto books! My reading has been on the slow side, thanks to hours spent watching election coverage, but I finished my last ARC of the year last week. (Not including some that I ended up taking a pass on.) I’ve now moved into a sort of impulse reading phase. It’s sort of free reading, but not very organized and completely dictated by mood…the only way to go right now!
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Last Week’s Reads
- Here is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan was a very different sort of story about a woman completely obsessed by her dead lover and his wife. I’m still not sure if I really liked it or not, but it definitely held my interest. Mini-review at the end of the month.
- I listened to Your House Will Pay, a backlist book by Steph Cha and I really, really liked it. The narrators were great, and the story completely absorbing. It follows two shootings in L.A. The first took place shortly after the Rodney King police beating and the second twenty years later, with the two being closely connected. A review of this will also be later this month.
DNF – I tried, but just wasn’t feeling Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey. I think this memoir of her mother’s murder was just too heavy for reading in a week filled with so much tension.
Currently Reading
- The library, both physical and electronic, has been good to me lately, delivering lots of reading options. I needed something on the lighter side, so started The Comeback by debut author Ella Berman. I’m now over halfway through and know it was the right pick for right now. I’m eager to see how this story of a wrecked Hollywood starlet ends.
- I’d originally though I would read Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, but an audiobook hold came up and since I wasn’t listening to anything, decided to give it a try. After about three hours, I’m liking this story of Shakespeare’s family much more than I’d expected. It’s truly amazing the wide variety of stories that O’Farrell is able to write.
Likely to Read Next
- I put a library hold on Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby a long time ago and it’s finally come in. While waiting, I also requested an ARC, but then never got to it. Now that I have both, this is one of those 2020 ARCs that I will return to. Looking forward to this thriller that many I trust have loved.
I’m a not-so-young girl and I’m excited to see Kamala become VP!
It’s been a long wait!
I’m very pleased about the election results too. I also spent hours glued to my TV watching the coverage. I like the idea of choosing what you want to read for the rest of the year. I’m combining ARCs and books that grab my attention since I want to start some of my 2021 ARCs. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
I have Your House Will Pay on my tbr list. Glad to hear you liked it!
It was excellent!
So thrilled about the election results; I also have young granddaughters (3) of them. It will not be easy to bring the divided country together but, I am optimistic. My reading has also slowed, especially last week but, I feel like reading once again. Hope November is a good month for you.
I’m glad you are reassuring your adult children that we used to work together. Sometimes they don’t know, do they?
I enjoyed Hamnet very much. Hope you do, too.
And since I heard about the success of the vaccine trials today…
Ooo I hope you like Blacktop Wasteland! Bug is such memorable character.
Sadly, I didn’t care for Blacktop Wasteland. I know I’m an outlier on that one.
I enjoyed Your House Will Pay earlier this year. Just can’t do those audio books though!
Blacktop Wasteland was excellent. Great characters. Some funny moments but thought provoking too.
I too have had a slow 10 days or so. His & Hers got me off the dime and now reading John Banville’s Snow. Very good!
We’ll have to disagree on Blacktop Wasteland. In the end I didn’t much care for it. Hope your reading continues to pick up now that we’re finally past the election.
I’m glad you liked Steph Cha’s book on audio … I thought the guy & girl who read the different parts were excellent & made it powerful in a way. You could feel their family collision by the situation etc. I’ll be curious to see what you think of Blacktop Wasteland … it turns quite action packed towards the end … I liked the audio of it in the summer.
Enjoy your week ahead.
Blacktop Wasteland just wasn’t for me. I felt like I was watching a long car chase scene!