Currently Reading
Cherokee America (HMH, 2019) by Margaret Verble is my November book club book. Our virtual meeting is coming up on Wednesday.
The Archived by Victoria Schwab‘s still my bedside-table book, same as three weeks ago! Need to start getting to bed earlier to have more time for reading before I conk out, I guess!
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Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson is a real page-turner, and I’m not usually much for historical fiction. It is a gripping story of slavery in the antebellum South with a strong female main character in Pheby Delores Brown – daughter of a proud African queen, now enslaved, and the married white plantation owner.
If you liked Wench (HarperCollins, 2010) by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, you will want to keep an eye out for Yellow Wife, coming in January 2021.
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Troubled Blood by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith is #5 in the Cormoran Strike series, with a controversy surrounding it regarding the plot, which meant even more spoilers in the advance reviews than usual.
I love the narration of this mystery series by Robert Glenister and have listened to all of them on audio, but with Troubled Blood‘s being almost 32 hours long, I’m worried that I won’t finish it before the library download expires, as just happened to me with Mexican Gothic.
Still To Finish
Mexican Gothic (Random House Audio, 2020) by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia expired on me before I could finish listening to it, and of course, before I can borrow it again, there’s another long wait list to get through for this popular horror novel set in Mexico – described by The Guardian as “Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America.”
An excellent audio narration is done on this by Frankie Corzo, but Mexican Gothic is not for the faint-hearted or weak of stomach.
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I started Gods of Jade and Shadow – Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s first book, before Mexican Gothic – for a virtual trip to Mexico to celebrate my birthday weekend, but the ebook loan expired before I could finish it, so I’m back on the library wait list for it. Set in Mexico, Gods of Jade and Shadow has mythological themes and grisly fantasy or fairy tale elements, but so far doesn’t fall into the horror or gothic genre.
Happy Monday! What are you reading this week?
This post is linked to “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?” link-up hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. Check out other book bloggers there for more book lists!
Yellow Wife looks very tempting. Thanks for sharing, and here are MY WEEKLY UPDATES
Wow! Those are really long audiobooks. I thought my David Webers were long but those are almost twice as long. I like historical mysteries but not necessarily historical fiction. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
Oh I’ve not heard of Yellow Wife or Wench before. Will have to keep an eye out.
Good luck with NaNoWriMo!
Your books all look so interesting. Enjoy them!
I started Wench years and years ago on audio but didn’t care for the narrator so I stopped it. I keep meaning to read it in print instead.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are fairly close to where I grew up so it always throws me when I see Oklahoma mentioned in conjunction with Cherokee. I obviously know there are the two bands and rough outlines of the Trail of Tears but Cherokee = close to home in my mind.
I’ve been listening to the Robert Galbreath books too but I’ll have to switch if they’re getting that long. I can’t imagine listening to a book for 32 hours! I noticed that Obama’s new memoir is about that long as I was putting my name on the hold list at the library so I made sure to only request the e-book.
Enjoy your week!
And “home” for me is the mountains of North Carolina since I didn’t make that clear.
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