It’s Monday again and we’re a whole week into 2024 already! I’ve been whipping through audiobooks this week, trying to catch up on household chores while I listen, but my print books are going at a glacial pace.
Currently Reading
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
My choice for 2024 First Book of the Year was Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty.
It’s an excellent collection of linked short stories about a family that lives in a Native community in Maine. Like a lot of literary fiction, the stories might seem depressing, as the characters are struggling in realistic ways with poverty, addiction, and difficult circumstances they were born into and certainly don’t deserve to be trapped under for their whole lives.
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
Spells for Forgetting was an off-list Christmas gift. I didn’t have much time for reading in December, so I’ve just barely started it, but it has magical realism and buried secrets from the past so far!
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