I haven’t actually started my official First Book of the Year because I had so many borrowed from the library that I need to finish first.
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Currently Reading
Winter by Ali Smith
“A stunning meditation on a complex, emotional moment in history.” —Time
The Warmest December by Bernice L. McFadden
With an engaging vitality, second-novelist McFadden (Sugar, 2000) explores a familiar subject—a daughter’s troubled relationship with her abusive alcoholic father. — Kirkus
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Winter Solstice: An Essay by Nina MacLaughlin
2024 Mass Book Award for Nonfiction, Massachusetts Center for the Book
“Arresting . . . MacLaughlin reminds us of our capacity for wonder, heightened in this season of quiet.” —Heather Tressler, Los Angeles Review of Books
Autumn by Ali Smith
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The first novel in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves.
Currently Listening To
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
The fields of Ireland are very crowded, but by the conclusion of This Is Happiness, you feel Williams has justified adding another book to the herd. — The Guardian
This was a road trip audiobook this past weekend, but at 15 hours, we would have had to listen just about every minute of our round-trip drive, and we didn’t, so we only got 65% through. Now I really want to listen to the rest, but I can’t, until we have another long drive together!
Mistletoe Motive by Chloe Liese
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