Two weeks have just whizzed by without a blog post. I did remember my blog password without having to look it up, so there’s that. If there are any faithful readers still checking in with me and reading this now, thank you to you both!
Currently Reading
Search by Michele Huneven
“A wicked pleasure . . . Huneven is a wise storyteller . . . this novel has plot, character, structure and a delicious, deeply human pettiness that I think most honest readers will relate to . . . [Huneven’s] descriptions of food are the best I’ve ever read.” — Mary Beth Keane, New York Times Book Review
Search is written in the form of a fictional memoir about the “author’s” experience on the search committee for a new church minister, complete with recipes. Just started it a couple of days ago, but I am loving it.
Michele Huneven is an author whose new books I thought I had kept up with since reading Blame from the library when it was new in 2009, and being so impressed. It was easy because there was has been only one other book since then – Off Course in 2014. But I see now that the author had two earlier novels published before Blame, which was a finalist for some big literary awards and received a lot of great reviews.
The God of Lost Words by A. J. Hackwith
The God of Lost Words (Ace, 2021) is third in the Hell’s Library trilogy (?) by A.J. Hackwith.
Author A.J. Hackwith describes herself on her Web site like this: “Amanda is a magpie of plots, bad ideas, and spite. She is a queer speculative fiction writer who writes contemporary fantasy as A. J. Hackwith and sci-fi romance as Ada Harper.” I was going to read The God of Lost Words anyway, because I need to find out what happens with Clare and the other denizens of Hell’s many libraries, but it turns out to be appropriate Pride Month reading, as well.
Recently Read
Lilly the Tiller by Deborah McKinlay
Review to come!
Currently Listening To
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Also a good choice for Pride Month, and also by accident!
This post is linked to “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?” hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. Check out the link-up party there for more book lists!
Search sounds really good and I love the bit about human pettiness, we all have experienced in our church communities I am thinking. I’d read this and enjoy it I think.
All of these books are new to me, but I’m particularly interested in Search. The blurb by Mary Beth Keane makes it even more appealing – I loved her book!
I decided that I would like to read The God of Lost Words, only to discover I still haven’t read The Library of the Unwritten. This is probably because my local library doesn’t have a copy. Luckily the other library I have membership in has a digital copy I can download. Now I just have to make time.
i am reading true friends by patti miller atm. so interesting how our brains remember and depict people.
I like the title of The God of Lost Words but haven’t read the first book in the trilogy. I think I added it to my TBR after you mentioned it here in fact!
Enjoy your week!
That’s how it goes with TBR lists! 😉
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