Currently Reading
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. – from the Publisher
A last-minute start for one more Readiing in Peril (RIP) Challenge book. This one is my own copy, from an event I was supposed to attend almost a year ago but got sick and ended up having to ask a friend to collect my signed copy along with hers.
Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. – from the Publisher
Tremor by Teju Cole
“A masterful novel by one of America’s finest writers . . . Cole is not just offering us a novel about art, migration, or marginalisation, rather a new politics of seeing, reading and thinking.”—The Daily Telegraph
Recently Read
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
“Small Mercies is a jaw-dropping thriller, set in the fury of Boston’s 1974 school-desegregation crisis, and propelled by a hell-bent woman who’s impossible to ignore. Thought-provoking and heart-thumping, it’s a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the best around.” — Gillian Flynn
A five-star read! This is the first book by Dennis Lehane that I’ve read, I think, except for Gone Baby, Gone, which I read a long time ago with a mystery book club.
The subject matter – the violent racism of South Boston at the time of school desegregation in the ’70s – makes Small Mercies hard to read, but the writing and the fully developed characters make it easy to see why Dennis Lehane is considered “a novelist who is simply one of the best around” by Gillian Flynn.
Currently Listening To
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror ed. by Jordan Peele
“Every piece is strong and memorable, making this not only likely to be the best anthology of the year, but one for the ages.”—The Guardian
More RIP Challenge reading! With only one day to go, I guess I won’t finish Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror in time. I just hope I can finish listening before my audiobook loan expires. There were 12 people waiting the last time I looked.
Recently Listened To
Network Effect and Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Road trip listening! We hadn’t taken a long enough drive lately to finish Network Effect, but we listened on a drive to Maryland and had the shorter Fugitive Telemetry for the ride back.
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!
I’ve just read the children’s book The Blunders; now reading Running strong by candice warner- her memoir.
I think I need to start rereading the Murderbot series so I am ready for System Collapse. I have a reserve on it, but that will take forever!
Thank you! I didn’t realize System Collapse was out! I think I got my hold in on the audiobook early just now…it said only 2 weeks’ wait!
Small Mercies is the only one I’ve read by Lahane but I was really impressed. I got such a great sense of “place” while reading it.